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Natura 2000 blows away wind farm
Plans to build an ecologically friendly wind farm in northern Poland are being scrapped, after environmentalists pointed out that it would break EU laws on bird protection.
The Debki beaches, on the Baltic coast, were set to see the construction of wind turbines but the project will not be realized as it would pose a serious risk to the region's birds.
June 16, 2009
in Polskie Radio
Plans to build an ecologically friendly wind farm in northern Poland are being scrapped, after environmentalists pointed out that it would break EU laws on bird protection.
The Debki beaches, on the Baltic coast, were set to see the construction of wind turbines but the project will not be realized as it would pose a serious risk to the region's birds.
Environmental officials claim that the turbines would break directives of Natura 2000, a European Union ecological network set up in 1992 extending the so-called Birds Directive of 1979.
The campaig against the wind farm in Debki started in 2008 and has been... [continue via Web link]
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