When all things are considered....
I think the environmental impact of the wind farm will be significantly less than an oil spill such as the one BP was responsible for on the U.S. Gulf Coast in 2010. Based on other studies there have been reasonably low impact on bird habitats with the installation of wind farms. By contrast tens of thousands if not hundreds of thousands of birds, fish and other animals and plants were killed and will continue to be affected for many years into the future by the 2010 oil spill, not to mention the others that have and will happen. Compare this with the disaster of the damaged Japanese nuclear facility or Chernobyl and the long term effects to all forms of life in those regions and I think that anyone can see that the relative risk vs. reward of a wind farm gives significant reasons to choose the wind farm. I think that if they could answer for themselves even the Loons would choose the wind farm alternative. We should be thinking about how our actions affect the environment that we share with all life on the planet, but we should also use common sense to promote the use of technologies and methods that will have a net positive benefit when replacing or reducing the requirement for the established.
