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Wind farms: the landscape -v- bird debate
Britian's biggest conservation charity, the Royal Society fir the Protection of Birds, announced Wednesday (February 20) that is was about to start issuing maps of important bird-flight routes in the North of England to help planners decide the future sites of wind farms.
The first map will cover Cumbria with others on Morecambe Bay and the Lancashire coast to follow. ...
We could get these monsters in the Dales because we are ordered to have them by the European Union. Its bureaucrats never listen to what people say because they consider us a mere nuisance. But they do pay attention to the environmentalists. With a bit of luck, the RSPB will say that these plans would cause too much bird kill - and we Dalesfolk could be saved!
February 22, 2008
in Daelnet
Countryside commentator John Sheard, who dreads the arrival of 400 feet high wind turbines five miles from his home, wonders if bird kill could be an unlikely saviour.
Britian's biggest conservation charity, the Royal Society fir the Protection of Birds, announced Wednesday (February 20) that is was about to start issuing maps of important bird-flight routes in the North of England to help planners decide the future sites of wind farms.
The first map will cover Cumbria with others on Morecambe Bay and the Lancashire coast to follow. So far, there is no mention of a Yorkshire Dales map and... [continue via Web link]
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