Reply #16: wind

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My state has okayed an offshore wind farm directly in a migratory bird pathway. Like Altamont, there will probably be tens of thousands of birds, including endangered species, killed each year. Wind farms are being built in the migratory path of the endangered whooping crane, of which only about 500 exist. They also slaughter bats. One severe hurricane, and this wind farm will be hunks of metal littering the ocean, due to the turbine blades tendency to be ripped off by high winds.

The Japanese situation developed. It didn't spring full blown accompanied by deception. And the crucial thing is what is the actual radiation level in Florida - the answer is, minute.

Three Mile Island is now a totally clean site, and extensive monitoring of the health of residents by the PA Dept of Health for eighteen years turned up no statistically significant increase in cancer, etc. The Exxon disaster and the Gulf site will probably never be clean. Oil will be there all the way down to significant depths forever. Those ecosystems will never recover.