Video showing disgraceful Spread of birdmincers across Scotland

3 Responses to Video showing disgraceful Spread of birdmincers across Scotland

1. mpcraig says:

   29 November 2015 at 16:29

   Does anyone have a video of a bird actually being knocked out of the sky? That would be powerful.
2. Peter Yates says:

   30 November 2015 at 00:00

   There’s a few videos. Google: ‘video bird wind turbine’.
   Such as this one: https://youtu.be/QRSAvD8VAbI (Bird Being Hit by Wind Turbine…).
   Also: http://www.epaw.org/multimedia.php?article=b2 (Vulture struck by wind turbine)
   More information is at a ‘How Stuff Works’ article here:
   http://science.howstuffworks.com/environmental/green-science/wind-turbine-kill-birds.htm
   They show an alternative viewpoint. Example: “The vast majority of research shows that wind turbines kill relatively few birds, at least compared with other man-made structures.” [table: deaths per year USA].
   They also explain (on pages 2 and 3) that there are now new, safer turbine blade designs; and rules in USA that govern the location of turbine farms. “Wind farms cannot be built in migratory pathways, in areas with high bird populations, or in areas with special features that could possibly attract high bird populations in the future.” .. Those rules should be used by other countries too.
3. Mark Hodgson says:

   30 November 2015 at 08:53

   The video is terrifying. All that concrete (CO2 intensive in its manufacture – assuming that’s important to the people who support them); all those peat bogs destroyed (thus releasing CO2 into the atmosphere), all that run-off destroyed (thus increasing the risk of flooding); so much of our beautiful visual environment destroyed by so-called enviromentalists (maybe we should just call them mentalists for short – and for accuracy).
   Whenever we drive up the M74 for another bout of Munro-bagging, the drive has been more depressing year on year, as that route is now wind turbine alley. And when I get to the top of a Munro it’s often equally depressing, with more and more of the wretched things destroying more and more of our wild places.

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