Audubon review supports wind farm (Massachusetts)

[jpak]

http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2006/03/29/audubon_review_supports_wind_farm/

The Massachusetts Audubon Society gave its preliminary blessing yesterday to a large-scale wind power project off Cape Cod, saying its studies show that turbine blades are not likely to cause significant harm to birds, as the group had once feared.

Support from the environmental group, one of the most respected in the state, is important because the threat to birds has emerged as a controversial aspect of the five-year-old proposal to turn stiff sea breezes into a source of electricity.

The group had previously raised questions about potential bird deaths, but Jack Clarke, advocacy director of Mass Audubon, said extensive studies it conducted in the last four years showed that endangered roseate terns and piping plovers, the group's main concerns, and other sensitive species generally avoid the 24-square-mile footprint of the proposed wind farm in Nantucket Sound.

''Our preliminary conclusion is that the project would not pose a threat to avian species," he said.

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[GrumpyGreg]

1. But the wealthy,waterfront property folks don't want it,including EMK..

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[mom cat]

2. I wonder if the view of a dying planet would be more attractive?

Republicans are not the only ones who do not get the danger of global warming.