Since 2005, Dr. Robert Barclay — Professor and Department Head of the Department of Biological Sciences at the U of C — has been studying the interaction of wind turbines and bats in southern Alberta.

I had an opportunity to talk with him about how the wind farm industry has responded to the fact that thousands of bats are killed every year as a direct result of these wind turbines.

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Dr. Barclay with a dead hoary bat found under a wind turbine in southern Alberta. The hoary bat is the most commonly killed bat, due to the fact they migrate every year though our province.