The Clinton County Board of Supervisors on Monday placed a three-month moratorium on accepting renewable energy overlay rezoning applications for utility-scale wind installation.
But, hundreds of thousands of birds and nearly 1 million bats die every year in collisions with wind turbines throughout the United States and Canada. As scientists look for ways to mitigate the effects of climate change, clean energy producers need to keep wildlife populations and their habitats in mind, experts say. “More than half of the (bat) species in the U.S. are either declining or at some risk of decline,” said Winifred Frick, chief scientist at Bat Conservation International. “Wind energy is the leading cause of mortality for our long-distance migratory species. And that mortality rate is worryingly high.”
Terry Husted lives in DeWitt County, a major pathway for migrating birds in central Illinois. After a company submitted plans to construct a wind farm in his area, Husted said
Following last week’s Board of Adjustment meeting in DeWitt that resulted in the approval of a wind measurement tower, opposition to NextEra Energy Resources’ Clinton Wind Project continued Monday at
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Republican Dan Kress emerged victorious, describing himself as the "common sense" candidate who
supports a property tax freeze and efforts to improve the water quality of the Clinton River.
Social Inflation Lesson: Not Settling Cost Insurer Millions in Suit by Excess Insurer
The defense team for Chubb Group’s Ace American Insurance Co. was confident that no jury would award more than $2 million in a wrongful death lawsuit filed by the family of Mark Braswell, who died on May 16, 2014 when his bicycle collided with a trailer behind a parked landscaping truck.
After all, there was some evidence that the truck owned by the Brickman Group was legally parked along the road. Also, Braswell’s helmet was cracked down the middle and the injury was to the top of his head, indicating he had his head down at the time of the accident and wasn’t looking where he was going.
Refusal to Settle for $2M Costs Ace Nearly $8M in Suit by Excess Insurer
The defense team for Chubb Group’s Ace American Insurance Co. was confident that no jury would award more than $2 million in a wrongful death lawsuit filed by the family of Mark Braswell, who died on May 16, 2014 when his bicycle collided with a trailer behind a parked landscaping truck.
After all, there was some evidence that the truck owned by the Brickman Group was legally parked along the road. Also, Braswell’s helmet was cracked down the middle and the injury was to the top of his head, indicating he had his head down at the time of the accident and wasn’t looking where he was going.