facts, analysis, exposure of wind energy's real impacts Windaction http://www.windaction.org/articles/c36+119?theme=atom Xarayar 2006-06-12T02:16:27Z .129 2004-04-05T20:24:53Z 2004-04-05T20:24:53Z

They introduced the world to "environmentally friendly" energy, but now some of Europe's "greenest" countries are under pressure to backtrack on wind farms as public anger grows over their impact on the countryside.

.11176 2006-03-31T20:07:23Z 2006-03-31T20:07:23Z

This report published by the British Ornithologists’ Union provides an important look at bird migration behavior over water and the potential for collision with offshore wind energy turbines. The authors recommend "abandonment of wind farms in zones with dense migration, turning off turbines on nights predicted to have adverse weather and high migration intensity, and actions to make wind turbines more recognizable to birds, including modification of the illumination to intermittent rather than continuous light, as the most appropriate mitigation measures." An excerpt of the Executive Summary appears below. The full report can be downloaded from this webpage.

.6657 2006-11-21T15:31:56Z 2006-11-21T15:31:56Z

It may be the time to consider how wind farms fit in with the values which the Wilderness Society represents. If the Society is prepared to go through such a prolonged and worthy fight to save the forests, with all the financial and emotional costs involved, it would be consistent to regard wind farm development with the same scepticism with which it regards the wood chip industry. Both are potent adversaries to the values which I hope we share.