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Statement on Condors



HI ALL:
You might want to help by letting them know what you think.
									VAN ATKINS

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>Date:         Mon, 13 Sep 1999 16:58:01 -0400
>Reply-To: "BIANCHI, John" <JBIANCHI@AUDUBON.ORG>
>Sender: NAS Chapter Communications officers
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>From: "BIANCHI, John" <JBIANCHI@AUDUBON.ORG>
>Subject:      Statement on Condors
>To: CHAPTER-COMMUNICATOR@LIST.AUDUBON.ORG
>
>DANIEL P. BEARD
>SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT FOR PUBLIC POLICY
>SEPTEMBER 13, 1999
>STATEMENT ON
>
>KILL THE CONDORS?
>
>Today the National Audubon Society is launching a campaign to stop the
>newest lethal threat to the California condor - an Enron Corporation
>proposed wind farm literally next door to US Fish and Wildlife Service
>designated critical California condor habitat.
>
>The California condor is perched on the brink of extinction.  A
>controversial captive-breeding program has succeeded in restoring about 50
>condors back into the wild in California.  The California condor is being
>given a rare second chance to roam the skies again.
>
>Yet, at this critical moment in the recovery of the California condor, Enron
>is proposing to build a giant condor death trap.  They plan to build 53 wind
>turbines at the crossroads of the California condors' range.  Two
>hundred-foot tall spinning blades would be placed in the heart of Condor
>Pass.  This must be stopped.
>
>Wind power may well play an important role in America's energy future.  But
>the choice here is clear.  If Enron builds this wind farm there is little
>future for the California condor.  The survival of the condor comes first.
>
>In our effort to save the California condor, we are launching the "Kill the
>Condor?" campaign.  Billboards with this question and the web site
>www.condor-pass.org are up this morning in Los Angeles and Houston, the
>corporate home of Enron.  To help educate Members of Congress, we have
>placed this advertisement in Capitol Hill publications and are distributing
>this brochure to the Senate and House of Representatives.  The brochure can
>be viewed on the web site.
>
>Fortunately, we believe there is a solution.  The Wind Energy Tax Credit
>expired this summer.  Without this federal tax subsidy, Enron would not find
>it profitable to build the wind farm at Condor Pass.  We urge that when the
>Congress renews the Wind Energy Tax Credit, it say that no wind farm can
>receive the federal tax subsidy if it is within 10 miles of designated
>critical condor habitat.  We urge people to contact their Members of
>Congress in support of the condor and this vital change in the Wind Energy
>Tax Credit.  People can use the web site to send this message to Congress.
>
>The California condor is one of the rarest of North America's birds.  The
>Fish and Wildlife Service spends a million dollars a year to try and help
>this magnificent bird recover in the wild.  It is hard to imagine a worse
>idea than putting a condor Cuisinart next door to critical condor habitat.
>
>Kill the Condor?  The answer must be no.  We look forward to working with
>Members of Congress and the public to ensure a future in the skies for the
>California condor.
>
>