Re: Deadly wind turbines

["HP Dean" <RadConDean@comcast.net>]

Yes they do kill of birds, but how they count them is a mystery.  I have

ridden in and around several wind mill farms (Altamont, Mojave, and

RioVista) and haven't seen any dead birds laying about.



The data is suspect, since I do not think there are 44,000 endangered birds

in that particular area, especially eagles.



I have seen an eagle nesting near the former Portland General Electric

Trojan plant.  However, I have not seen any eagles nesting around a coal

fired, oil fired, gas fired, or solar plant!



Dean Chaney

RadConDean@comcast.net



----- Original Message ----- 

From: "Steven Dapra" <sjd@swcp.com>

To: <radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu>

Sent: Thursday, January 01, 2004 1:15 PM

Subject: Deadly wind turbines





> Jan. 1, 2004

>

> The headline reads:  "Blades Kill Scores of Birds.  Environmentalists

> oppose wind turbines in California's Altamont Pass."

>

> According to the article, "[s]cientists estimate as many as 44,000 birds

> have been killed over the past two decades" by wind turbines in the

> Altamont Pass east of San Francisco.  "The bird deaths have led some

> environmental groups that support wind power to oppose permits for the

> Altamont site", and, environmentalists say, "the wind industry is not

doing

> enough to stop the deaths."  (The birds in question are golden eagles,

> kestrels, and red-tailed hawks.  The article says nothing about any birds

> being killed by the power reactor at Diablo Canyon.)

>

> (Source:  A Washington Post article by Kimberly Edds, datelined Los

> Angeles, and reprinted in the Albuquerque Journal on Jan. 1, p. A-2.)

>

> Steven Dapra

> sjd@swcp.com

>

>

>

>

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