Eagles and birds of prey get a lot of airtime as it relates to the carnage at solar and wind sites. But what about the bats? Dead bats are found all over the ground below wind turbines. Why? Turns out the pressure drop behind a passing blade bursts a bat's lung without them ever colliding with the turbine. Whereas the birds found under the turbines sustain blunt trauma, broken wings, and broken necks, the bat bodies are littered all over the ground, peacefully. A University of Calgary team led by Erin Baerwald decided to start dissecting. As the article below stated: "The team then necropsied 75 of the freshest carcasses in the field, and the pattern inverted. Only 32 of the 75 had obvious external injuries. But 69 of them, nine out of ten, had hemorrhaging inside the chest or abdomen: blood that had burst out of vessels and pooled in the body cavity. Under the microscope, lung tissue told the same story, with every one of the 17 bats examined histologically showing pulmonary lesions." Solar and wind are torturing animals on a scale you're not familiar with. Why is that scale so big? It has to do with energy density. Since solar and wind generate such intermittent amounts of energy, they need a scale of land to even mildly "function." Along the way, the foreign companies make more money building at scale as well. Tens of thousands of acres are taken out to build these ecologically catastrophic complexes. Animal carnage is so bad that ORES knows to tell the developers they will have to "pay to mitigate" the deaths. As if money is going to magically resurrect these animals. This is an evil, sick experiment being conducted on the wildlife of our state. I am disgusted by it. All who are responsible for the cover-up of its true environmental damage must be held accountable.Read the study here: https://t.co/VgAAOV628U.
— Alex Fasulo (@alex_fasulo) September 4, 2026
I won't rest until they are.
