If you need cell phones in the BWCA maybe you should stay in Edina.
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From: "Michael Hendrickson" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, June 15, 2011 5:13 PM
Subject: Re: [mou-net] FW: [mou-net] Golden Eagles harmed by wind turbines
Most cell towers I see today do not have guide lines to hold the tower in a
steady position but if this tower in the Boundary Waters does not have guide
lines then there will be very little loss on a foggy rainy night in the
Boundary
Waters but if it the tower does have guide line cables hold the tower up
then
there will be birds of some numbers killed during migration on foggy rainy
nights.
I support the tower because the tower will give hikers and campers access to
call emergency personnel to aid them if a storm or a medical issue occurs to
people while out camping or a lost hiker and ect.. There are many good
reasons
to have communication such as this in place and yes even in National Parks
and
Forest and that is to be used as a tool to help people communicate. We live
in
a different era and communication has changed and keeps changing every year.
I
suspect the majority of people who work and live near the park support the
tower
and I would even say a lot of campers and hikers most likely will feel more
secure knowing that IF any emergency is needed they are only a few beeps of
a
cell phone away to get help.
I do not think a few blinking red lights will impair the beauty of the
Boundary
Waters.
The group that is suing AT&T is open for shorter towers in the same area so
hopefully a compromise will be reached in court.
Mike Hendrickson
Duluth, Minnesota
Website: http://www.mikehendricksonbirding.com
Blog: http://colderbythelakebirding.blogspot.com/
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From: Laura Erickson <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Sent: Wed, June 15, 2011 11:13:48 AM
Subject: Re: [mou-net] FW: [mou-net] Golden Eagles harmed by wind turbines
Sadly, the wind power industry has a paid ornithological advocate,
Paul Kerlinger, who is willing to stretch the truth quite a bit in his
testimony in support of industry. He was also the expert witness for
AT&T in their legal case when the Friends of the Boundary Waters took
them to court regarding a 450' guyed, lighted cell phone tower (which
would actually be 600' above the landscape because it's to be located
on a hill) that AT&T wants to build right on the edge of the Boundary
Waters, in a dark-sky area where bird kills during foggy/rainy weather
would likely be worse than at most towers. I can't really speak to
specifics of his testimony until the judge makes a ruling, but it was
very depressing to see just how fluid a person's understanding of
stellar navigation is when he's paid to say this kind of tower would
not kill more than "a few dozen" birds a year.
Best, Laura
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On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 11:04 AM, Chuck Cole <[email protected]> wrote:
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From: Chuck Cole [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2011 2:45 PM
To: Eric Harrold
Subject: RE: [mou-net] Golden Eagles harmed by wind turbines
Studies done in Florida by the FL Conservation Society and Audubon, etc,
showed
that ANY towers are hazards to migratory birds....
lighted towers especially. Lights are required aircraft warnings on power
towers, airport towers, windmills, radio and TV towers,
tall buildings, and so on. The type of tower makes little difference.
Chuck
-----Original Message-----
From: Minnesota Birds [mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of Eric
Harrold
Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2011 12:59 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [mou-net] Golden Eagles harmed by wind turbines
Perhaps the most unfortunate aspect of wind energy is the notion that we
(society) have to tailor everything to the
corporate model. In other words, we could utilize residential scale
turbines
that pose a much lesser risk to migrating
birds. But the turbines in the Midwest pose little threat anyway when
placed in
big rowcrop ag fields where there is
little concentrated bird movement. The Appalachian region and similar
mountainous places are another story...
Eric Harrold
--- On Mon, 6/13/11, linda whyte <[email protected]> wrote:
From: linda whyte <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [mou-net] Golden Eagles harmed by wind turbines
To: [email protected]
Date: Monday, June 13, 2011, 6:37 PM
It is indeed, unfortunate. There seems to be no escaping the
conclusion that all forms of energy production come at some kind of
price. We need to minimize the "side-effects" or collateral damages of
all of them---and start by examining our own energy consumption.
Linda Whyte
On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 12:38 PM, Jim Ryan <[email protected]> wrote:
> This is most unfortunate:
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http://www.ncpa.org/sub/dpd/index.php?Article_ID=20764&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=DPD
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>
> Jim Ryan
> Saint Paul's Westside
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