Bird Issues
Bird Issues
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Wind farms accused of concealing deaths of protected species According to reports, bird toll census numbers are being rigged by burying or otherwise concealing mutilated bird carcasses rather than reporting them. Read more... |
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Energy in America: Dead Birds Unintended Consequence of Wind Power Development
Wind power is the fastest growing component in the state's green energy portfolio, but wildlife advocates say the marriage has an unintended consequence: dead birds, including protected species of eagles, hawks and owls. Read more... |
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EDITORIAL: GOLDEN EAGLES FALL PREY TO WIND INDUSTRY The controversy surrounding wind farms in America has been brewing for over 25 years. The debate centers around the use of the deadly propeller style wind turbines and the large death toll to what are supposedly protected species. One of these species, the federally protected golden eagle, has been at the forefront of this debate from the beginning. Read more... |
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Birds versus windmills again: Birds win one The $400 million, 150-megawatt Merricourt Wind Project is supposed to be built this year in southeast North Dakota, but construction is in doubt now, after Xcel Energy announced that it's rescinded its agreement to be part of the project. Read more... |
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Wind Turbines Could Kill Millions of Birds by 2030 American Bird Conservancy (ABC), the nation’s leading bird conservation organization, said today that the build-out of wind energy proposed by the federal government to meet a Department of Energy target of generating 20% of the nation’s electricity through wind power is expected to kill at least one million birds per year by 2030, and probably significantly more. Read more ... |
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A Long Night's Journey Into Death In these efforts to bring wind power to the shoreline in northwest Ohio, impacts on birdlife are being essentially ignored and legitimate concerns are being pushed aside. Read more... |
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Bird Kills By Power Companies The turbines, with the turbine blades 450 feet up in the air (the Statue of Liberty's torch is only about 300 feet up) will forever change the environment of Top Notch AND the surrounding areas. Highland Hill Farm and East Penn Gardens will both fight this project in every possible legal manner. Read more... |
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Windfarms - the bird massacre continues Despite the world-wide cover-up on bird mortality at windfarms, the odd news concerning bird stikes continue to filter. We know they are just a tiny tip of the iceberg, but from it we can form an idea of what the future will look like : our countryside converted into a never-ending industrial zone, with increasingly fewer birds of fewer species to lift our spirits. Read more... |
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Chilling Statistics Birdkills at windfarms are a hot topic. Subsidies worth billions of dollars and billions of euros hang in the balance - for if it were known that windfarms kill millions of birds yearly across the world, many of them eagles, swans, geese, cranes, storks, bustards and other protected species, the public purse would no longer be accessible to wind promoters and their clients. Hence the cover-up, which I denounced in various articles. Read more... |
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Birders seek moratorium on lakeshore turbines The Black Swamp Bird Observatory is seeking a three-year moratorium on additional wind turbines within three miles of the Lake Erie Shores in Lucas, Ottawa, Sandusky, and Erie counties until research, including radar studies, on how the turbines affect the lives of nocturnal migrants can be completed. Read more... |
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Visualize the Importance !! What were they thinking ???? Read more... |
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Bird Kills On August 13, ExxonMobil pled guilty in federal court to charges that it killed 85 birds - all of which were protected under the Migratory Bird Treaty Act (MBTA). Read more... |
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Bats: Bird Kills Curious and intelligent animals, they search out the turbines, possibly for food, possibly for nesting stations, we really don't know. Proponents of wind industrialization understand the significance of the bats disappearing from earth. They are always struggling to do studies, often enlisting Universities for that service, in order to abate these startling deaths. Read more... |
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Windmills and Birds The number of birds killed by wind turbines is highly variable. And biologists believe Altamont, which uses older turbine technology, may be the worst example. But that said, the carnage there likely represents only a fraction of the number of birds killed by windmills. Read more... |
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Vultures and Eagles COULD wind farms hasten the local extinction of an endangered vulture in southern Spain? Studies have so far focused on the short-term effects of wind turbines, looking at the number of bird collisions per turbine per year. Read more...
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Migration, Migration "This is truly an international problem, one that so many developers and local/state/provincial governments pooh-pooh as a NIMBY issue in order to slide the deals through. This problem runs from the arctic to the tip of South America - and that is one helluva big backyard!" Read more... |
