Wind Power - Impacts on Wildlife and Government Responsibilities for Regulating Development and Protecting Wildlife (pd) from the (US) GAO. This diary summarises a few scientific studies and quotes the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds on the topic: Wind power: birds, landscapes and availability (I) Other discussions on birds, with various sources: http://www.dailykos.com/... http://www.dailykos.com/... http://www.dailykos.com/... http://www.dailykos.com/... The conclusion is that, while the wind farm in Altamont, Ca has killed a number of raptors, and care should be taken in all cases to site windfarms away from migratory pathes and other potentially hazardous locations for birds, the overall impact of wind farms on bird is extremely low.
This diary summarises a few scientific studies and quotes the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds on the topic: Wind power: birds, landscapes and availability (I)
Other discussions on birds, with various sources: http://www.dailykos.com/... http://www.dailykos.com/... http://www.dailykos.com/... http://www.dailykos.com/...
The conclusion is that, while the wind farm in Altamont, Ca has killed a number of raptors, and care should be taken in all cases to site windfarms away from migratory pathes and other potentially hazardous locations for birds, the overall impact of wind farms on bird is extremely low.
And on my job and earlier diaries on the industry:
Energy - some good news (for once) Don Quixote meets Wall Street - financing wind farms The future of power generation Wind power: birds, landscapes and availability (I) comment on PTC Something to take your mind off indictments: Windfarm blogging Wind power now CHEAPER for US retail consumers USA to become world leader in wind power in 2005 All of these are based on my direct involvement with the industry, which I finance as a project financier (read the first "Don Quixote" diary for a detailed description of my job). My bank has now financed more than 5,000 MW of wind power. As project financiers, we have to make sure that the projects we fund are sound over the long term, and we thus have no incentive to downplay risks or nasty side effects, quite the opposite: we want to identify them in order to eliminate them or mitigate them properly.
All of these are based on my direct involvement with the industry, which I finance as a project financier (read the first "Don Quixote" diary for a detailed description of my job). My bank has now financed more than 5,000 MW of wind power.
As project financiers, we have to make sure that the projects we fund are sound over the long term, and we thus have no incentive to downplay risks or nasty side effects, quite the opposite: we want to identify them in order to eliminate them or mitigate them properly.
"Love is on the ground at Denver International Airport--among rabbits, at least, and that's a dangerous situation for aircraft. The wascally wabbits, as Elmer Fudd might say, attract raptors that can cause millions of dollars of damage when the birds of prey collide with aircraft.
Last year, animal strikes at DIA caused more than $4 million in damage to commercial aircraft. Bird strikes with aircraft are estimated to cost civil aviation more than $300 million a year nationally. According to the U.S. committee's website, more than 6,300 bird strikes were reported for U.S. civil aircraft in 2004."
http://www.denverpost.com/business/ci_3545309
