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County Supervisors place moratorium on wind project applications

The Clinton County Board of Supervisors on Monday placed a three-month moratorium on accepting renewable energy overlay rezoning applications for utility-scale wind installation. ....

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WindAction | Wind farms, key to clean-energy efforts, threaten birds and bats. Developers urged to plan for wildlife

But, hundreds of thousands of birds and nearly 1 million bats die every year in collisions with wind turbines throughout the United States and Canada. As scientists look for ways to mitigate the effects of climate change, clean energy producers need to keep wildlife populations and their habitats in mind, experts say. “More than half of the (bat) species in the U.S. are either declining or at some risk of decline,” said Winifred Frick, chief scientist at Bat Conservation International. “Wind energy is the leading cause of mortality for our long-distance migratory species. And that mortality rate is worryingly high.” ....

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Wind farms, key to clean-energy efforts, threaten birds and bats. Developers urged to plan for wildlife

Hundreds of thousands of birds and nearly 1 million bats die every year in collisions with wind turbines throughout the U.S. and Canada. ....

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Wind farms, key to clean-energy efforts, threaten birds and bats. Developers urged to plan for wildlife.

Terry Husted lives in DeWitt County, a major pathway for migrating birds in central Illinois. After a company submitted plans to construct a wind farm in his area, Husted said ....

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Opposition to possible wind project continues

Following last week’s Board of Adjustment meeting in DeWitt that resulted in the approval of a wind measurement tower, opposition to NextEra Energy Resources’ Clinton Wind Project continued Monday at ....

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