This [Cape Wind project] is precisely the kind of renewable energy that pretty much every Earth Day speech since 1970 has demanded that we develop. Now that it's finally here, though--now that we're talking about particular windmills in particular places, not abstract and squeaky clean 'wind power'--people aren't so sure...But I've given my share of Earth Day speeches, and seen the effect they had. Sooner or later you've got to do something.
-- Bill McKibben, Author of The End of Nature
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Wind opponents exaggerate bird kill Thursday, June 23, 2005
By Solon Economou, a columnist for the Cape Cod Times
While the Altamont Pass figures, involving 20-year-old obsolete turbines, have been touted in scare tactics by local wind farm opponents, the bird kill from modern offshore wind farms is virtually zero.
The Nysted wind farm of 72 turbines, which I visited in Denmark in a recent trip organized by Clean Power Now, had only two bird kills in two years. I'd wager that's fewer than the number that dies flying into the bay windows of the shoreline home owners who have mounted such an opposition to the wind farm.