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"In wildness is the preservation of the world"
--Henry David Thoreau |
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Kansas Flint Hills, the last expanse of Tallgrass Prairie on the continent,
is being threatened by industrial energy development. |
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3% of the Tallgrass Prairie in North America remains
• Industrial development fragments the fragile ecosystem and disrupts wildlife habitat
• Developers want to construct 1,000 wind turbines taller than the Statue of Liberty on the high ridges of the Flint Hills
• Huge machines-little benefit: 1000 turbines would only contribute 1/10 of 1% of our current energy production
• Little power benefit to the citizens of the Flint Hills
• Disrupts the scenic view both day and night for miles in each direction
Wind companies want to build hundreds of industrial turbines on the last Tallgrass Prairie in North America
• Proven economic and environmental consequences
Why fragment & compromise this unique & endangered ecosystem with industrial development when Kansas has over 8 million acres of already fragmented land with good wind resources? |
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