BPA Found in Wind Turbine Blades

Testing in Norway has found bisphenol A, BPA, in discarded wind turbine

blades. BPA is an industrial chemical and recognized endocrine disruptor that

can interfere with the body's hormone system.

Authorities now want independent testing of soil, vegetation, and

water around wind farms. Turbine blades spend decades

exposed to rain, hail, ice, UV, and mechanical stress.

They erode and crack, with old blades cut up and buried.

We now await the test results to see exactly how much BPA escapes into the

environment.