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According to Spain's Ornithological Society, its main bird conservation charity, Spain's 18,000 wind turbines might be killing six million to 18 million birds and bats a year.
That's an average per turbine of 333-1000 deaths a year.
January 16, 2012
by Herald Sun
in Terry McCrann
Wind turbines are killing birds.
Borrowing a chant from the 1960s: hey, hey Bob Brown, how many birds have you killed today?
But unlike Vietnam, where the killing did eventually stop, if Brown, the Greens and warmenists in general get their way, the bird-killing will not only go on forever but be dramatically, dramatically, multiplied.
According to Spain's Ornithological Society, its main bird conservation charity, Spain's 18,000 wind turbines might be killing six million to 18 million birds and bats a year.
That's an average per turbine of 333-1000 deaths a year - much more than the two to... [continue via Web link]
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