Prairie chicken status threatens wind projects
Published: August 5, 2009
Tags: energy, habitat, lesser prairie chicken, Texas, turbine, wind farm
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Betsy Blaney AP Writer Lubbock, TX — A little prairie grouse could give the wind energy industry big fits. Should the lesser prairie chicken become listed as threatened or endangered — and it’s close now — there would be significant restrictions on companies planning to plant towering turbines across a five-state region believed to have [...]