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Thursday, March 28, 2024

Letter to the editor

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For the Record

The Feb. 12-18 edition about wind energy was interesting, and in need of another view point. As one who owns a house on the ocean at the beach, I would not want any damage to our beach. I am also a member of the oil and gas industry and I do not want any damage to our beach. If you take a good look, there is not a great deal of damage created by industry to our beach and our oceans.

The interesting thing is that the liberals have suddenly changed and are now in favor of killing birds and changing the ecosystem at the beach. With the windmills, we will kill sea gulls and migratory birds as they fly into the windmill blades that are 80 feet in the air. Good fishing areas will be changed, as well as species of fish, and many changes to our subsea habitats. On dry land, we have seen many problems with windmills created in Oklahoma and Texas. In the past several years, there has been a huge increase in coyotes around windmills. These are coyotes that pick up carcasses from dead birds that have hit the blades. The ease of obtaining food has created new problems — such as more coyotes are now in backyards of families, are fatter, etc.

A final item is that in the various meetings on windmills, there has been only one time when the fact that windmills emit red lights on the horizon of the ocean, which will be visible on the oceanfront at night. It was discussed and that was quite short. It is hoped sanity is gained, and we can sit on our favorite rocking chair looking at the moon, not a bunch of red lights and dead birds.

Michael Stovall

Tulsa, OK and Wrightsville Beach, NC

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