The dispute underscores the conflicts between conservation groups and renewable energy interests, such as the ongoing issue
with wind turbine farms imposing dangers to birds.
From Pagudpud, our Lakbay Ilocos Norte continued heading this time to the Municipality of Bangui, the home of Bangui Windmills, the famous
wind turbine farm in the Philippines.
With the push toward clean energy, West Texas and Eastern New Mexico have seen a tremendous growth in the popularity and construction
of wind turbine farms.
So, the task for Boal and other researchers becomes ensuring eagle habitats and the landscape are as conducive as possible to ensure survival and reproduction while at the same time having mitigation policies in place for landowners who
erect wind turbine farms that could endanger eagles.
Four states — Delaware, Massachusetts, New Jersey, and Rhode Island — are all looking at putting
large wind turbine farms up to 12 miles offshore where they're far enough away from the coast to minimize tourism impacts but still close enough to provide large amounts of electricity to the states.
There are about 2,500 of these golden eagles in California and the
biggest wind turbine farm is said to kill about 80 of these eagles each year, on average.
a 33 MW, 15
wind turbine farm operated by St. Columban Energy LP («St. Columban Wind Project»); the 270 MW, 140 turbine wind farm owned by K2 Wind Ontario Limited Partnership («K2 Wind Project»); and the 180 MW, 92 turbine wind farm of SP Armow WindOntario LP («Armow Wind Project»).
She worked on policy issues, did research for hearings related to
wind turbine farms in Ontario, prepared disclosure documents, and worked on the prosecutors» side to impose fines or jail sentences to violators of the Environmental Protection Act.
«We're able to track where they go, and see if they interact
with wind turbine farms, if they fly through to hunt in those areas or do they avoid them altogether,» Boal said.
Both conservative Republicans and liberal Democrats, for instance, strongly favor the expansion of solar panel farms (80 % and 96 %, respectively) and
wind turbine farms (71 % and 93 %, respectively).
There are also concerns that
wind turbine farms — particularly large ones — may disturb migratory birds, and serve as a source of noise pollution for those living and working nearby.
Critics argue, for example, that
a wind turbine farm can only operate at a «capacity factor» (a ratio that measures the potential output of an energy source against its actual output) of 30 to 35 percent, while a nuclear reactor operates at around 90 percent.
I predict a major decline has occurred in all the local bird of prey populations in the vicinity of
every wind turbine farm in North America.