CapeCodToday Blog Chowder

The concerns about birds is in virtually all cases totally without merit. As mentioned, the number of birds killed in the US by windows, utility line electrocutions, cats, automobiles . etc. exceeds 2 BILLION per year in the US. Twice weekly surveys of hundreds of US turbines have demonstrated that in thetypical case, fewer than 1 bird per turbine are casualties. Only in certain
locations where tens of thousands of
bats migrate are any significant number
of casulaties encountered - perhaps 1 or 2 hundred during the migration. This is a totally insignificant number in terms of the populations involved and the number of birds transitting the wind turbines. There obviously needs to be
Federal legislation that prevents locals
from obstructing wind turbine siting.
The same invalid red herring arguments care voiced by local self defined environmentalists or ignorant bird lovers who ignore the vast bulk of evidence, and cite some obscure claimed problem halfway around the world concerning an obscure species. Wind turbine blades typically rotate at a leisurely 16 RPM.