[NatureNS] wind turbines

From: Keith Lowe <mythos25@live.com>
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Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2015 09:27:29 -0300
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I'll see if I can find a link later but I read an article last week about
man-made causes of bird deaths in North America. It claimed 200,000,000
birds are killed by outside cats each year in North America and 23,000 birds
are killed by wind turbines (.001% of cat deaths). Office building were also
far more deadly for birds than wind turbines but not as much as cats.

Keith Lowe

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From: naturens-owner@chebucto.ns.ca [mailto:naturens-owner@chebucto.ns.ca]
On Behalf Of Marg Millard
Sent: Wednesday, April 15, 2015 9:19 AM
To: naturens
Subject: [NatureNS] wind turbines

Last evening I attended a meeting about renewable sources of energy, and
storage of electricity. Very interesting. I am curious about these
structures. Do we have any idea now how they are affecting the bird
population?  There was talk of numbers increasing and their height and size
growing....  my understanding is the peak time for them to run is at night
as that is when we have maximum wind and as battery storage is improved
there will be more and more of them. I actually don't mind them visually,
but I remember doing a land survey on PEI (in Southport just at the end of
the causeway from Charlottetown) back in the 70's and It was a disaster for
the birds.  Has there been an improvement in design, is someone working
toward that end, some warning system to protect the birds somehow. I should
have asked this at the meeting but well, I loose my train of thought very 
quickly and probably wouldn't have made any sense.   Marg Millard
19 White Point 2 Rd.,
White Point, Queens Co.,
R.R. # 1 Hunts Point,
Nova Scotia , Canada
B0T 1G0 (902)683-2393
MargMillard.ca 


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