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Vulture collides with wind turbine

Lisa

November 01, 2009 9:51:41 AM

This short clip shows a vulture flying too close to a wind turbine in Lendas, South Crete where it collides with one of the blades and tumbles to the ground.

Duration: 30 seconds

BNN: Making wind energy green

Lisa

July 01, 2009 10:36:08 AM

This Bird News Network (BNN) video by American Bird Conservancy (http://www.abcbirds.org)discusses the impact to birds from wind turbines and the need to properly site where wind farms are located, and some effective mitigation measures that can be taken to reduce bird mortality.

Duration: 4 minutes 32 seconds

The Heartbreak of the Horicon

Lisa

September 13, 2008 10:03:10 PM

In the spring of 2008 along Wisconsin's Horicon Marsh, 86 industrial wind turbines went on line. The turbines are just two miles from the marsh, an area considered to be a wetland of global importance. If not for the efforts of concerned citizens, the wind developers would have erected the massive, 40-story tall turbines much closer. Visit hmsadvocates.org to find out how you can help. Visit betterplan.squarespace.com to learn more about wind turbine siting in Wisconsin.

Duration: 1 minute 59 seconds

A message from a bat about industrial wind turbines

Lisa

September 07, 2008 7:23:52 PM

Recent studies have found that bats are dying the most painful of deaths near industrial wind turbines due to a sudden drop in air pressure in the wake of the spinning blades which have a span wider than that of a 747 aircraft. The sudden drop in air pressure causes a bat's lungs to expand and explode. The bat then drowns. This is the same thing that can happen to scuba divers when they come up too quickly.

The National Audubon Society has been marching in lockstep with wind developers and blindly supports industrial scale wind farms. Their position is that whatever wildlife deaths the turbines cause is more than made up for by the reduction of green house gasses. However, reports from the National Academy of Sciences show that because industrial wind turbines cannot function without fossil-fuel burning power plants, and because the wind is unreliable, the reduction of green house gases by wind energy is negligible.

Studies in Europe show the same results.

So what does the National Audubon Society get for trading wildlife deaths? Please take a moment to write the national office and ask them to rethink their position on wind energy. The bats will thank you.

Duration: 1 minute 20 seconds

Wind turbines: Beauty Corruption, a protest song

Lisa

September 03, 2008 9:22:53 PM

A Benington protest song in response to plans to build industrial wind turbines in Benington, an area of outstanding beauty. The video was filmed at the planned turbine site.

'Put it on a motorway, where it can be forgiven, or take it off the shore, just don't destroy this land.....' . Words and lyrics by Becky Godlee. Please support the campaign: visit www.stopbeningtonwindfarm.co.uk

Duration: 6 minutes 25 seconds

Bats dying in the wake of wind turbines

Lisa

August 30, 2008 6:45:26 AM

Interviewee: Erin Baerwald, University of Calgary
Produced by Joyce Gramza - Edited by James Eagan
Copyright © ScienCentral, Inc., with additional footage courtesy of
the University of Calgary, and Brown University.

Stop the Ostrander Point wind farm

Lisa

April 20, 2008 3:35:30 PM

This video addresses just some of the possible impacts should the Ostrander Point wind energy proposal be permitted in Ontario, Canada.

Fatal Attraction: Birds and Wind Turbines

Administrator

November 04, 2007 6:26:22 PM

California's largest wind farm cluster at Altamont Pass kills golden eagles, burrowing owls and other threatened birds yearly. This video was prepared as a lead up to the Altamont bird lawsuit and includes interview segments of expert Shawn Smallwood.

To view in high definition format, visit the source URL: http://www.kqed.org/quest/television/view/367