Subject: Birdkills -- Sagrillo

From: jdport <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 16 Apr 1995 05:24:21 GMT

The substance of the article was that yes, there are documented
cases of birdkills in areas of windfarming, but evidently few of
them can be blamed directly or indirectly on the wind machine
rotors and towers per se.  There are groups of dead birds found
anywhere they have migratory paths overhead.
Sagrillo suspects that "birdkills" may be the rallying cry for
some sort of anti-wind power faction, of which the existing
commercial power industry is one.  Using birdkills as a tactic to
arouse fear and suspicion and thus postpone or thwart construction
of wind farms seems to be similar to the environmentalists'
tactics of using the spotted owl in spite of studies  and
individual observation that these owls thrive in woodcut areas,
only this time it appears the established industry may be the
"antis" so far as windpower is concerned.
Home Power has a web page, but they probably don't paste up free
articles from their paid magazine on it.... but you could try and
see if such things pop up on there.
Jim Devenport

Birdkills -- Sagrillo