mahalo Teresa for your mana'o. may I offer my own mana'o as a Hawaiian and a cultural practitioner.

first of all, it seems obvious that if dead bats and birds are being found regularly in specific close proximity to the turbines then its reasonable to assume that the turbines may be having a negative effect on the normal activity of these animals. in light of this, perhaps spending $4 million dollars on research is not the wisest course of action.

Wouldn't the impact of the turbines on wildlife have been a necessary part of the original EIS ? if not, why not ?

perhaps the $4million would be better spent studying the necessity of a power utility which employs a dangerous, unreliable, expensive to maintain and prone to catastrophic failure energy grid system that's very costly to consumers when much cheaper, safer, more reliable alternatives (hydrogen fuel cells and photovoltaic) already exist which do not rely on an energy grid which only feeds the greed of the energy utility.