Sentences with phrase «wind energy turbines kill»

Every year, vehicle collisions account for about 14 million bird deaths, communication towers 221,000, and wind energy turbines kill about 45,000.

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The «not in my back yard» opposition to renewable energy systems is still a reality, the researchers said, and there are still some environmental concerns about virtually any form of energy, whether it's birds killed by wind turbine rotors, fish losses in hydroelectric dams or chemical contaminants from use of solar energy.

But those incidental take permits usually span only about 5 - 10 years, and a condition of those permits is that for every eagle killed by a wind turbine, the energy company has to offset the loss by ensuring birth of a new eagle somewhere else or prevent an eagle in another location from dying from other causes.

If you only read the U.S. press, you'd think that renewable energy is the most environmentally and socially devastating idea we'd ever had — paving over deserts, killing birds in wind turbines, promoting communism, fascism and moral depravity of all sorts, and now, threatening global catastrophe via overpopulation — and did you know that species extinction in the tropics is all due to the expansion of biofuels for export?

On 12 January 2012, at the First Scientific Congress on Wind Energy and Wildlife Conservation in Jerez de la Frontera, Spain, the Spanish Society of Ornithology (SEO / Birdlife) made public its estimate that, yearly, Spain's 18,000 wind turbines may be killing 6 to 18 million birds and bats Wind Energy and Wildlife Conservation in Jerez de la Frontera, Spain, the Spanish Society of Ornithology (SEO / Birdlife) made public its estimate that, yearly, Spain's 18,000 wind turbines may be killing 6 to 18 million birds and bats wind turbines may be killing 6 to 18 million birds and bats (1).

Yet, recent studies highlight that so - called green energy, such as wind energy, may come at environmental costs, for example when wind turbines kill birds and bats.

Then in 2016, Donald Trump offered a more general critique of wind energy noting that wind turbines are «killing all the eagles» despite studies showing that tall buildings, like those built by real estate developers such as Mr. Trump, cause much higher rates of bird mortality than wind turbines do.