The birds fly north and south. The power lines run east and west.
Carnage is the result.
That means that if there's large-scale wind power development in North Dakota, it will result, one way or another, in development of power lines to get electricity to the most logical market, the suburbs spreading north of the Twin Cities. But as a Tribune story suggested Wednesday, power lines kill lots of birds. The spinning turbines would take a toll, as well. The Legislature and the big utility company struck a bargain. The utility company got to continue storing spent fuel rods at a nuclear power plant.