Are guidelines strong enough in the face of Minnesota's bald eagles living under the threat of wind energy farms expansion?
Announced this week, July 25, 2011, the federal Department of the Interior proposed new voluntary wildlife protection guidelines for wind energy projects. The guidelines were denounced by environmental and bird-loving organizations as grossly inadequate. At minimum, such rules should be mandatory, the American Bird Conservancy said.
The Coalition for Sensible Sitings invites you to use this blog to voice concerns you may have that more protections need to be in place.
New Wildlife Guidelines From the Federal Department of the Interior
Posted on Wednesday, July 27, 2011 by Eagle Siting in
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on Wednesday, July 27, 2011
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Voluntary only works if there is "honor" in the individuals trusted to comply. I fail to see anything that would indicate that this developer intends to comply with any recommendations that impede their ability to site 48 turbines to make X number of dollars. The USFWS Guidelines need to be made mandatory so legit wind energy developers, those who actually care about the environment, can benefit from government incentives instead of fakes like those employed by AWA.
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