The Audubon Society is minded to erect a wind turbine in a wildlife sanctuary they manage. Here is the reaction of an irate citizen. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Barry @ SaveOurSeaShore Date: Sat, Jun 8, 2013 at 6:39 PM Subject: Wind Turbines deliver the Cop De Grace to bats in Pennsylvania, what about Mass? To: [email protected] Cc: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], mark duchamp , [email protected], [email protected] Dear Mr Prescott, Mass. Audubon Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary leaders and Mass Audubon leaders, Let us put this to you simply. One of the major efforts at Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary is to spend lots of money on a Wind Turbine. You have a colony of bats. The Mass Audubon Society loves wind energy and is seeks to enable it everywhere that it can, including a Wildlife Sanctuary. This, while Wind Energy is performing the Coup De Grace on bats already affected by White Nose Syndrome(WNS). We demand a response of how you can support wind energy that is known to be wiping out bats that haven’t already been killed by WNS? Why does it take a few amateurs to point out the obvious? That renewable energy involving loss of habitat and killing wildlife in a Sanctuary is wrong! Why are those who are entrusted with the legacy of Audubon along with its vast resources of money, land, people and infrastructure are supporting and developing obvious negative impact solar and wind in a Sanctuary? Bulldozing Sanctuary land for solar arrays and killing birds and bats with industrial wind turbines are not what most supporters of Audubon donate for!!! The state of Massachusetts with the Federal Government are pouring billions into wind energy, suppressing and ignoring the evidence of harm, while knowing that it is destroying a species and harming other species!!! Please review the following items and then tell us why we are wrong? So far we have no response to every devastating fact we have sent you and you press forward with your dreamy industrial wind turbine in a Nature Sanctuary. This is a horrific!!! Director Prescott and Senior MAS personnel…the silence is deafening! It is well known that wind turbines are killing lots of bats . The USGS reporting” “Dead bats are turning up beneath wind turbines all over the world.” The Pennsylvania Game Commission has been honest enough to report “ The average estimated bat deaths per turbine per year was 24.6”. 420 Turbines killed 10000 bats with a plan for 2900 turbines. What is less obvious is this is on a backdrop of WNS which is killing 99% plus in some colonies, with wind energy finishing off the survivors. We suspect Massachusetts and the MAS Audubon know that a similar situation is occurring here…but are too busy planning for more bat killing wind turbines and clearing land in Sanctuaries to showcase industrial solar arrays….to stop and think about NATURE! Here is what a local Sierra Club in PA says concerning the decline in Bats there and please note the reference to WIND TURBINES. pennsylvania.sierraclub.org/moshannon/alerts/120818_pgc_bats.pdf The Moshannon Group of the Sierra Club, which has 1,000 members in central Pennsylvania, strongly endorses the proposed listing of the northern long-eared bat, the tri-colored bat, and the little brown bat as ENDANGERED in Pennsylvania. All three species have seen population declines of more than 95% in the past 4 years in Pennsylvania. Comparative pre- and post-White Nose Syndrome hibernacula surveys show a 99% decline in northern long-eared bats in the Commonwealth since 2008. Summer mistnetting in 2011 showed a 93% increase in effort was required to capture this species as compared to pre-WNS. Comparative pre- and post-WNS hibernacula surveys show a 98% decline in tri-colored bats in this Commonwealth since 2008. Summer mist-netting in 2011 showed a 185% increase in effort was required to capture this species as compared to pre-WNS. This species also has been a significant component of bat mortalities associated with wind turbines. Comparative pre- and post-WNS hibernacula surveys show a 99% decline in little brown bats in these hibernacula since 2008. Summer mist-netting in 2011 showed a 463% increase in effort was required to capture this species as compared to pre-WNS. As with the tri-colored bat, little browns have also been a component of bat mortalities associated with wind turbines. All but 23 of 10,000 bats in Durham bat mine have died That leaves a little less than one wind turbine in one year’s worth!!! Are you going to build that wind turbine?????? Massachusetts has seen similar devastation of WNS and the Mass government say “As a result of the devastating mortality that has resulted from WNS in Massachusetts, all four of our bat species that spend the winters in caves or mines have been listed as Endangered.“ From MassWildLife A study from Boston University estimates that 14 -15 tons of insects are consumed each summer by the 50,000 Big Brown Bats that live within the bounds of Route 128. "High bat mortality is a major concern because bats have a low reproductive rate," says Dr. Thomas French, MassWildlife Assistant Director for Natural Heritage and Endangered Species. "Most bats raise one pup per year. It will take decades for bat populations to rebound after a large die-off." USGS “ The mystery of why bats die at turbine sites remains unsolved. “ We know…spinning blades erected by dreamy idealists that operate about 30% of the time, in open nature in the bat’s habitat are killing them!!! The money would be better spent on practical impactless efficiency and conservation projects which don’t wear out and are more cost effective, and reduce CO2 output by 90% and work 100% of the time. Even land clearing solar only works at best 40% of the time. We know you won’t be able to brag about your new big tall wind turbine or a bulldozed field of solar panels as a visual reminder…but the animals will be alive with a safe home and not trying to avoid death! Suggestion….take your $200000 and spend it on something that does kill nature! Sincerely Barry Doyle Save Our Sea Shore
Posted on: Mon, 10 Jun 2013 18:33:36 +0000
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