Wind Turbines Destructive to Oyster Industry

One of the dirty little secrets of the wind turbine industry is the amount of harm it does to wildlife.

Those wind turbine farms located on land are very destructive to birds and bats, killing tens of thousands of them, if not more annually.

When BP (NYSE:BP) had its oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, a big deal was made about the damage to wildlife, even thought it was extremely minimal, and not even close to the damage these wind turbine farms do in just one day to wildlife.

Evidently the media likes to show a few birds with oil on them. Unfortunately they don't show the mangled birds and bats.

Now as far as those wind turbines located in some parts of the sea, they can also be extremely destructive to wildlife via secondary effects.

For example, off the coast of Great Britain it has been extremely destructive to shrimp. That's because when the wind turbines are being put in place, and to a lesser extent, when they're operating, it attracts huge numbers of starfish which gorge on the shrimp. This is extremely destructive to the industry, and those within the shrimping industry fear they could lose their livlihoods over it.

For some reason when shrimp fishermen are impacted by oil that's a scandal, when they're affected by the even more brutal wind turbine industry, somehow it just doesn't matter, and the media largely ignores it.

Starfish come to the areas that are disturbed, such as in relationship to wind turbines, because they instinctively know when the area is disturbed they're going to be able to feed well.

Wind turbines are growing increasingly controversial, and the mainstream media, for the most part, refuses to point out the damage from these ugly monsters.