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2 Alaska refuges to get bird-friendly wind power
Work is under way to install nearly a dozen odd-looking wind turbines at two remote Alaska refuges important to hundreds of thousands of migratory birds.
The plan is to have the electricity-generating wind turbines at Izembek National Wildlife Refuge in Cold Bay and Alaska Peninsula National Wildlife Refuge in King Salmon up and spinning by the end of summer.
May 14, 2010
by Mary Pemberton
in Daily News-Miner
ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Work is under way to install nearly a dozen odd-looking wind turbines at two remote Alaska refuges important to hundreds of thousands of migratory birds.
The plan is to have the electricity-generating wind turbines at Izembek National Wildlife Refuge in Cold Bay and Alaska Peninsula National Wildlife Refuge in King Salmon up and spinning by the end of summer.
The cylindrical turbines will be used to power U.S. Fish and Wildlife facilities at the refuges. Both refuges are important stopping off places for migratory birds, particularly Izembek, which has several large lagoons, including one stretching 30 miles long... [continue via Web link]
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