Windmills in the Texas panhandle could be delayed or denied by the Lesser Prairie Chicken.
Developers are scouring the sagebrush and grasslands of potential turbine sites for the ground-dwelling chickens, E.ON chief development officer Patrick Woodson said. Once plentiful in the southern high plains, the bird now has a high priority for listing under the Endangered Species Act, a move that will affect where as much as $11 billion in turbines can be built.
Developers of green energy (and green jobs) are running into some of the same road blocks that conventional power companies face. These obstacles are expensive and delay work on alternative sources. If we want to get those shovel ready green jobs going, then we will need to relax regulations…particularly onerous regulations like the Endangered Species Act.
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