Recently in the United Kingdom, a primary school, was forced to turn off their wind turbine because of birds being killed by the spinning blades. The small propeller-style wind turbine had tip speeds of 135 miles per hour and killed 14 birds in just six months. In comparison, the tens of thousands of large wind turbines installed in Europe and the United States have tip speeds of 220 miles per hour and are even more lethal. Worldwide, millions of birds are killed annually, but unlike the birds in the schoolyard, most of these birds drop to the ground with no witnesses.

In Canada, a recent study of bird and bat mortality at Wolfe Island’s 82-turbine wind farm found 600 birds and more than a thousand bats were killed by the windmill blades in a six-month period.

None of this should come as a surprise. Over the last 25 years in Altamont Pass, more than 2,000 golden eagles have been killed by the blades of the propeller-style wind turbine. The corrupt wind/oil industry (they are one in the same) paid experts to say it was just an aberration and that Altamont was unique. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is also mixed up in all of this fraud because they deliberately looked the other way while wind farms were built in the habitat of the condor and whooping crane. They even helped write the “No Surprises” clause into federal law, which gives this industry a free pass for killing endangered species.

The most insidious impact from the use of propeller style wind turbines, is the slaughter of migratory Birds. The negative footprint from wind energy is far greater than the obvious. A perfect example is the Whooping Crane that travels 2500 miles only to be chopped up in the thousands of spinning blades along their migration route. The critically Egyptian Vulture is another migratory victim of these turbines. Paid off experts fraudulently cite collisions with power lines as being the primary reason.

The truth is no bird or bat is safe around a propeller-style wind turbine. The day is coming when far superior wind turbines, without the flawed deadly propeller design, will be implemented across the world. How long this will take depends on how long the bird and bat mortality lie is perpetuated.

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4. Development of wind projects is likely to cause:

a. Bird mortality caused by collisions with operating turbines and/or elements

of auxiliary infrastructure, in particular overhead power lines;

b. Decrease in population due to loss and fragmentation of habitats caused

by deterring effect of the wind turbines and/or development of

communication and energy infrastructure related to operations of the wind

turbines,

c. Disturbance to populations, in particular to short- and long – range bird

migrations (the barrier effect).

5. Mortality caused by collisions and loss of habitats are key in terms of likely

adverse effects on birds populations.

6. The extent of effects on bird population is diversified, depending mainly upon

the location of the wind turbines – from almost no or negligible effects on life

expectancy of bird population, to significant effects with significant loss of

habitats and high mortality caused by collisions.