Birds face threats in changing Maine landscape

A common tern dives to defend its nesting area on Eastern Egg Rock in Muscongus Bay in 2003. Gabor Degre|BDN


Energy projects that generally are considered more environmentally friendly than fossil fuel facilities are not without blame when it comes to birds deaths. Wind turbines kill somewhere between 140,000 and 328,000 birds die each year, according to this report at Smithsonian.com.


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Comment by Jim Palmer on November 30, 2015 at 10:37am

Then I guess you will encourage all the readers of the Citizen's Task Force on Wind Power to keep their cats indoors and to treat all their windows in order to save bird lives. See the window treatments under consumer products at http://abcbirds.org/get-involved/bird-smart-glass/. Or is it really just about wind turbines?

Comment by Eric A. Tuttle on November 30, 2015 at 10:26am

On my own personal note, as we have been struggling to increase bird populations that were once on the brink of extinction, along with finally holding recognition of the benefits of birds, bats and other creatures of nature that fit into our ecological structure, and provide us with that which is as to our quality of life in Maine or other rural settings, these are but one more of mankind's methods to continue the destruction of yet another resource. 

Comment by Jim Palmer on November 30, 2015 at 10:16am

"Wind turbines kill somewhere between 140,000 and 328,000 birds die each year." I guess I need to ask--is it the turbines or the birds you are mostly concerned with?

The "Source" also references results from other studies by Loss and others (and thanks for including your source, it does facilitate the discussion). They estimate that there are 365 ti 988 million bird deaths from collisions with buildings in the US (44% at residences and less than 1% at high-rises) and 1.3 to 4.0 billion birds killed by free-range domestic cats in the continental US each year. That's BILLIONS. If you care about the song birds there is a lot that the readers here can do to help out Visit the American Bird Conservancy site at http://abcbirds.org/. There is also a lot about wind energy that will interest the readers of the Citizen's Task Force on Wind Energy. But if it is birds you care about, most wind projects are relatively small potatoes.

 

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Maine Center For Public Interest Reporting – Three Part Series: A CRITICAL LOOK AT MAINE’S WIND ACT

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(excerpts) From Part 1 – On Maine’s Wind Law “Once the committee passed the wind energy bill on to the full House and Senate, lawmakers there didn’t even debate it. They passed it unanimously and with no discussion. House Majority Leader Hannah Pingree, a Democrat from North Haven, says legislators probably didn’t know how many turbines would be constructed in Maine if the law’s goals were met." . – Maine Center for Public Interest Reporting, August 2010 https://www.pinetreewatchdog.org/wind-power-bandwagon-hits-bumps-in-the-road-3/From Part 2 – On Wind and Oil Yet using wind energy doesn’t lower dependence on imported foreign oil. That’s because the majority of imported oil in Maine is used for heating and transportation. And switching our dependence from foreign oil to Maine-produced electricity isn’t likely to happen very soon, says Bartlett. “Right now, people can’t switch to electric cars and heating – if they did, we’d be in trouble.” So was one of the fundamental premises of the task force false, or at least misleading?" https://www.pinetreewatchdog.org/wind-swept-task-force-set-the-rules/From Part 3 – On Wind-Required New Transmission Lines Finally, the building of enormous, high-voltage transmission lines that the regional electricity system operator says are required to move substantial amounts of wind power to markets south of Maine was never even discussed by the task force – an omission that Mills said will come to haunt the state.“If you try to put 2,500 or 3,000 megawatts in northern or eastern Maine – oh, my god, try to build the transmission!” said Mills. “It’s not just the towers, it’s the lines – that’s when I begin to think that the goal is a little farfetched.” https://www.pinetreewatchdog.org/flaws-in-bill-like-skating-with-dull-skates/

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Hannah Pingree on the Maine expedited wind law

Hannah Pingree - Director of Maine's Office of Innovation and the Future

"Once the committee passed the wind energy bill on to the full House and Senate, lawmakers there didn’t even debate it. They passed it unanimously and with no discussion. House Majority Leader Hannah Pingree, a Democrat from North Haven, says legislators probably didn’t know how many turbines would be constructed in Maine."

https://pinetreewatch.org/wind-power-bandwagon-hits-bumps-in-the-road-3/

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