How an Eagle’s Nest Shows the Challenges of New York’s Climate Plan https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/25/nyregion/ny-clean-energy-law-wind.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
A generous article for the wind developer (APEX) considering the substantial evidence of their willful cover-up of a Bald Eagle nest and unnecessary low helicopter flights over an active nest. But the suppression of avian impacts by APEX regarding their proposed Galloo Island Wind Project goes well beyond this eagle incident. Their Wyoming consulting firm (WEST Inc.) whitewashed the project’s avian risk assessment, giving little mention of the adjacent colonial seabird colony on Little Galloo Island and the half a million plus feeding flights of the colony’s residents across Galloo Island annually. Certainly one fact that should have been highlighted is that the project would inevitably kill more Caspian Terns annually than all other wind projects in North America combined have ever killed. Another is that, based on data gathered in pre-construction surveys, the Galloo Island Wind Project would impact far more NYS listed species and wintering raptors than any of the existing 20+ wind energy projects in NY. Bill Evans -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME.htm http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES.htm http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L 3) http://birding.aba.org/maillist/NY01 Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
