Reply #13: it is not propaganda

[amazona]

I suggest you visit the American Bird Conservancy for facts rather than one newspaper piece.

Cell phone towers and skyscrapers are documented to kill hundreds of millions of birds a year. Wind turbines will need to be carefully situated out of flyways or they will destroy whole populations of migrating birds.

Oil rigs in the Gulf of Mexico actually provide a resting place for migrating birds. During a fall-out, hundreds of warblers and other migrants can find safety and rest on an oil rig. Birds that have learned to look for these structures in bad weather could be killed in HUGE numbers if an oil rig was replaced by a wind farm in that location.

Wind farms need to be properly situated because, in the wrong location, they may indeed pose a serious threat to birds.

Wind farms are being proposed and built for profit, not out of the goodness of anyone's heart, and they must be studied as seriously for environmental impact as any other large-scale proposal. I have no problem with wind farms offshore Denmark, but I do not live in Denmark. I have a big problem with wind farms in my line of sight or in the central flyway unless the proper care is taken to protect the health and safety of our migrating birds.