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Clean Power Collateral Damage: Of Birds, Tortoises And The Transition From Fossil Fuels
2013-03-11 06:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Huffington Post: Is kickstarting a clean-energy industry and accelerating a movement away from fossil fuels worth the expense of, say, a few desert tortoises or a collection of piping plovers? If so, how many of these threatened species would you be willing to sacrifice to build a commercial wind farm, or a utility-scale solar array? It's a stark and oversimplified way to frame things, of course, but the exercise helps to highlight the reality that renewable energy has environmental impacts, too. It's a point...
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Category:Electronics and Electrical