WIND ENERGY AND WILDLIFE – AN INEVITABLE CONFLICT?
February 1st, 2011
BY MJ DESCHAMPS
WIND-GENERATED energy - clean, safe, and increasingly economically viable, is facing an obstacle to its expansion: chagrin amongst conservationists that wind turbines can kill or harm wildlife, especially birds and bats. Recently, as a part of the European Union's (EU) commitment to increase renewable energy to 20% of Europe's total energy production by 2020, the European Commission published guidelines to prevent wind energy developments from harming wildlife in conservation zones included within its Natura 2000 network, which covers almost 18% ...
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