Can we build back better for birds?
Birds now face a threat that is much bigger than DDT or any of the threats they’ve encountered since the Industrial revolution: Wind Turbines.
Birds now face a threat that is much bigger than DDT or any of the threats they’ve encountered since the Industrial revolution: Wind Turbines.
Conservationists hate wind turbines for their infamous role as bird killer, a fact that is very rarely mentioned in the news media.
The U.S. is ready to adopt consistent and more sensible standards on the incidental loss of migratory birds. Read CFACT's official submission in support of this reform.
“Oyster farming has many ecological benefits and is widely recognized as one of the most ecologically sustainable forms of food production.” Yum.
Each year, a whopping one billion birds crack their noggins on the windows of buildings in the US.
Given the deadly impact of wind turbines, wind power apologists would be wise to never mention the topic of energy and wildlife deaths.
Wind Turbines: The New “Apex Predator”
A report on the number of animals killed and species at risk of extinction lays bare the ecological impact of renewable energy technology.
After 30 years, residents of King Cove, Alaska finally won approval for the construction of a road connecting their remote Aleutian fishing village to an all-weather airport. Yet the Center for Biological Diversity, Defenders of Wildlife, and their ilk would have the world believe that an 11-mile-long, single-lane gravel road will put birds migrating along the Pacific Flyway in peril.
CFACT Senior Policy Analyst Paul Driessen explains the huge costs and inefficiencies of replacing fossil fuels with wind, solar, and biomass fuels.
Not only has the wind industry never solved its environmental problem, it has been hiding at least 90% of this slaughter for decades. In fact, the universal problem of hiding bird (and bat) mortality goes from bad to intolerable beyond the Altamont Pass boundaries, because studies in other areas across North America are far less rigorous, or even nonexistent, and many new turbines are sited in prime bird and bat habitats.