Is the Federal Aviation Administration up for the job of regulating wind-generators and their impact on the environment? The FAA is already short staffed and needs more people, their budgets are stretched thin already and now it appears that the FAA will be asked to monitor wind turbines, but why? Perhaps, because the newer style wind generators are over 100 feet high (because the wind blows harder there), and maybe they have been tapped to look into this problem because the wind generators have giant propellers, airplanes have propellers too? For whatever reason, many are shaking their heads.
After all if it has to do with the environment, why not the EPA - Environmental Protection Agency? Maybe because they would be far too stringent, still, it is a known fact that wind turbines kill birds and bats.
The larger wind turbines do not have the "bird kill" counts that the smaller ones have.
This is because the blades turn slower on the larger units and the birds can navigate through them.
Nevertheless, Bats often are caused to crash from wind turbines as the low-pressure area created by the spinning blades does not allow them to stay airborne, whether or not the blade ever hits them.
You can research "Bird Kill wind generator winslow" on the internet and find some articles on this.
One thing I find interesting is that when the oil spill happened in CA, the environmentalists were all over it, only 64 bird died (there are trillions of birds on the planet) and yet the environmentalists are often reluctant with regards to the 10s of thousands of birds killed per year, since generally they are in favor of green energy initiatives.
One has to wonder with Billionaire T.
Boone Pickens in the Loop, that maybe they can do an end run around the environmental issues for now.
Think on this.