Persuasive Essay On Wind Turbines

Does living near a wind turbine, that sounds like a tornado, seem like a place someone could relax and get a good night sleep? Wind energy has begun to take the country by storm with states such as Iowa using wind turbines to generate up to thirty percent of its energy. Iowa is a leader when it comes to wind energy by limiting the regulation on the companies building the turbines. Most of the turbines in Iowa today were built before most regulations were put in place. Wind energy should be more regulated in Iowa because of the nuisance to homeowners and the harm to wildlife near wind fields. Wind turbines in Iowa cause homeowners living too close to them harm in the noise they cause. Many homeowners living nearby the wind fields say there should be a setback law which requires the turbines to be a set …show more content…
When the wind turbines are spinning they can hit and kill birds flying by, and the construction of turbines can disrupt a habitat of wildlife. The Iowa Department of Natural Resources says that “It has been demonstrated that if proper siting of wind turbines is not carefully planned, certain locations may result in collisions with, and death of, both wild birds and bats. In one or two noteworthy instances, excessive mortality of hawks, eagles and other birds of prey has resulted in major modifications to both design and placement of wind turbines, or even periodic shut-downs of large facilities” (Conservation: Wind and Wildlife). When birds migrate north in the spring and south in the fall, they fly on a path and if the turbines are incorrectly placed on that path, there is potential for significant bird deaths. If the Iowa legislature required that companies building turbines coordinated with the DNR or applied for a permit with the DNR for them to approve the location of turbine, the number of birds and bats that would be killed would be reduced