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GREENBRIER COUNTY, W.VA. -- Workers atop mountain ridges are putting together 389-foot windmills with massive blades that will turn Appalachian breezes into energy. Retiree David Cowan is fighting to stop them.
Because of the bats.
Cowan, 72, a longtime caving fanatic who grew to love bats as he slithered through tunnels from Maine to Maui, is asking a federal judge in Maryland to halt construction of the Beech Ridge wind farm. The lawsuit pits Chicago-based Invenergy, a company that produces "green" energy, against environmentalists who say the cost to nature is too great.
The rare green vs. green case went to trial Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Greenbelt.
It is the first court challenge to wind power under the Endangered Species Act, lawyers on both sides say. With President Obama's goal of doubling renewable energy production by 2012, wind and solar farms are expanding rapidly. That has sparked battles to reach a balance between the benefits of clean energy and the impact on birds, bats and even the water supply.
At the heart of the Beech Ridge case is the Indiana bat, a brownish-gray creature that weighs about as much as three pennies and, wings outstretched, measures about eight inches. A 2005 estimate concluded that there were 457,000 of them, half the number in 1967, when they were first listed as endangered.
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Oh dear God, he's worried about bats that he fell in love with? Take some pictures for memories then. Sad part is lately Judges seem to be sympathetic to these kind of ridiculous lawsuits.
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Oh dear God, he's worried about bats that he fell in love with? Take some pictures for memories then. Sad part is lately Judges seem to be sympathetic to these kind of ridiculous lawsuits.
Bats eat skeeters by the ton.

Scrap the wind farm.
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Bats eat skeeters by the ton.

Scrap the wind farm.

Based on the description..skeeters may be whats killing the bats

We got skeeters bigger than those bats down here
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