Biostitute Alert: wind industry bird consultants set to spew guano in Camden March 18th
Camden Public Library on Thursday, March 18, at 6:30 p.m.
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Comment by Ron Huber on March 20, 2010 at 2:30am
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Listen to the Amazing Podolsky, back in September, plying his "Birds? What birds?" trade at the Maine Offshore Wind Energy Demonstration Area Siting Initiative Public Forum. http://ning.it/ch5J2U
Missed his Camden performance. Anybody get to it?
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Anybody want to speak a little truth to Podolskian power outside his Midcoast audubon presentation?
A quick skit at the door to the library: someone dressed as podolsky,(?) wearing an exaggerated set of blinders, trying to whack a birdshaped pinata with a big dollar sign, while the narrator intones a sad commentary o the perils of windmills are coastal birds. reading from the USFWS study about cape wind showing who there were six hundred times more birds using the area of blade sweep than Podolsky & Company had detected with their "expert" aerial observations.
The press will drink it up.... No, the local print media will sip and sputter, but the TV news will imbibe mightily, if a few props appear.
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I find it interesting that the 'passage rate' of migrants recorded by Podolsky and Famous (as described in the Downeast magazine article) was 'low' at Vinalhaven..given that less than 3 miles away, at Metinic Island, USF&W and UMO reported up to 1/4-1/2 MILLION songbirds migrating over that region just during last fall migration alone, according to a USF&W press release posted online last November. This was also shown during the UMO talk given in Bangor two weeks ago. One wonders how such famed experts (self-professed, perhaps - I'm not sure I've seen anyone but Podolsky talk so glowingly about himself as he does) could have missed all those birds that went over that area... The USFW-UMO researchers said that most of the birds were seen during the day (!), by the thousands on some days - and they actually captured and banded several thousand birds - again, in the daytime. Apparently you actually have to make an effort to find birds if you want to actually document them! If the Vinalhaven consultants aren't sure what to look for, someone needs to get them some bird guides, and an alarm clock! I also noted that the Vinalhaven turbines are higher than they need to be, for the power output, in order to be above the trees. One of the major recommendations about siting is to avoid having turbines close to trees as this is where not only birds, but bats, roost on migration. I hope somebody at Vinalhaven takes some early morning walks around the turbines during migration. It would be nice to think that the turbines are not doing any harm, but people should make decisions based on facts, and not stick their heads in the sand....
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Comment by Long Islander on March 14, 2010 at 10:24pm
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May 2008 wildlife progress report for the proposed Fox Island Electrical Cooperative,
Inc. Wind Power Project on Vinalhaven Island
Norman Famous and Dr. Richard Podolsky
http://www.foxislands.net/windpower/springreport2008.pdf
Note that Podolsky's partner, Norm Famous is the husband of LURC's Marcia Spencer-Famous who essentially heads up wind power projects statewide for LURC.
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Speaking of Podolsky, please see the following article on Vinalhaven wind by Thomas Urquhart which states "Podolsky found no bats, and Alcorn and Webster’s old quarry offers little foraging habitat for songbirds."
http://www.downeast.com/magazine/2009/december/mighty-wind-vinalhaven
However, another group of naturalists, known as "No-Bat Deniers" may differ with Dr. Podolsky's finding:
"Monday, May 25. Vinalhaven - An astute group of 5th grade naturalists, Mrs. Radley's class, heard singing Hermit Thrushes and Ovenbirds on the island of Vinalhaven May 19 and 20. They also found a Smooth Green Snake, deer scat, snowshoe hare scat, 2 Ospreys, 2 Bald Eagles, and 37 Lady-Slippers! These were blooming along Vinalhaven Land Trust trails. On a night foray to a quarry pond, they found a newt, many dragonfly larvae, two Green Frogs, and a great many large (2nd year) Green Frog tadpoles. Of these, two had tiny legs, and no deformities were observed. Students also noted bats flying and catching insects over the pond". (From: http://www.mainenature.org/archive/5-26-98.html)
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From StopillWind.org: "Environmental organizations that support wind technology by pretending that the ends justify the means, by falsely assuming that wind can do anything meaningful to alter our existing energy profile, are largely responsible for the depredations unloosed by the wind industry. Their imprimatur gives the industry a legitimacy it does not deserve."
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Comment by Joanne Moore on March 14, 2010 at 9:05pm
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I find it very disturbing that Podolsky is a member of the impact assessment and regulatory subcommittees of Baldacci's Offshore Wind Power Taskforce.
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Here's Podolsky's Plum Creek testimony
http://penbay.org/energy/podolskytestimony_092807.pdf
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Ron - when I clicked on the site for the Plum Creek filing by Podolsky it asks for a password. Do you have an actual pdf copy you could post directly to this site? thanks! (Inquiring minds want to read!)
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Run Johnny run!
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