Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire Missouri’s largest wind farm is shut down at night....

I don’t know if I should laugh or cry.....

Our glorious USFWS at it’s best. “A” male bat is discovered dead on the site, and they shut down 175 wind turbines on 60,000 acres producing 400 MW of power. ONE dead bat on 60,000 acres.....

The Feds. Coming soon to a business or project near you.......

https://fws.gov/midwest/endangered/...20Memo%20and%20TAL%20Report_06152021.pdf


“To avoid potential effects to the Indiana bat and northern long-eared bat, the TAL required feathering of all turbines below 6.9 meters-per-second (m/s) for 0.5 hour before sunset to 0.5 hour after sunrise when air temperatures were above 50°F from March 15 through October 31 based on the 10-minute rolling average at each individual turbine. Due to the fatality of a male Indiana bat at the Project in September 2020, Ameren voluntarily increased the avoidance measures to involve no operation of the turbines when temperatures were above 50°F starting on March 15, 2021. Another fatality was discovered on April 15, 2021; Ameren voluntarily stopped all nighttime operations starting on April 19, 2021, but continued post-construction monitoring under the TAL until the ITP was issued on May 14, 2021.“

I can't believe there were 175 functional wind turbines to begin with.

Cripes!


Bats is more importanter than global warmings.

I’m pretty sure we have reached peak stupidity for our species.

Idiots

UPDATE; last night 2 bats were discovered ....wit republican voter cards ....ALL 175 wind turbines are now up and running again.....

You have a way with words

College grad bro!

Not the wind farm's fault. The bat's radar was defective. Or maybe they build them with stealth blades.






I'm betting we haven't yet. The power of stupidity knows no bounds.





I've been curious about what gets found on the ground at Eva Creek since that eyesore started up..

BSc or MS in beer box applications?

As slow as those things spin in comparison to a bats ability to pull some hellified flying maneuvers ....

Had to be some dumbazz bats with some fugged up bat sonar, radar, echo locating what the fugg ever they got to fly around and catch bugs.

Probably 2 retarded ones out of 10,s of thousands everynight around the area.

The bats with defective radar were taken out of the gene pool. It actually makes the species more resilient in the long term

Fuggin wildlife bios!

Blame the greenies and their lawsuits, not the feds on this one.

I have been directly involved with several similar situations. There is a HELL of a lot more involved here than just some bat loving biologist. I guarantee it. The simple fact that there is a yearly "POST-CONSTRUCTION BAT MORTALITY MONITORING REPORT" tells me a lot about the situation and the documents that were generated to approve the project.

That's pretty funny right there.

Fishheads would NEVER cause such a mess!

Those in the know............know.....eh?

Lawsuits overcome common sense every time.

I get your drift, however, there's assloads, like it or not, 50+ thousand and growing. They're bound to have roughly a partial assload working...

Nope. Fish heads can't be blamed for this particular mess....

Or any other..................


ha ha.

If you're out on the road and not at home, I hope you can get a little rest tonight.

I'm outta here.

Home, insomniacing like hell.