‘It’s Not Right’: Claims Bats, Birds Slaughtered by Wind Farms Heard at Australian Inquiry

The Inquiry Into Nuclear Power Generation in Australia has heard about the consequences of wind farms for bats and birds. Adrian Paterson is a South African scientist and engineer who worked on the Pebble Bed modular reactor and was CEO of the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation from 2009-20. Paterson spoke of his concerns around complete reliance on renewables, from their lack of consistent energy generation through to land clearing and the nature of the infrastructure, which tends to only last around two to three decades. But when speaking about the impact on the nation’s ecology, Paterson labelled the push for renewables as “distressing.”...