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Page 1 of 2 We have received the following message from Israel :
"Following a press release last week it seems that several
of the leading industrial companies in Israel are going to enter the
wind business. These are deeply connected to leading politicians.
Our ministry of environment is quite hopeless. The future seems bleak."
From Gibraltar, from Sicily, from the US, Japan, Australia,
New Zealand, Mexico, and now from Israel, day by day more bad news come
in from the main bird migration flyways of the world. For windfarm
developers think nothing of erecting their wind turbines in migration
bottlenecks. Wind speed and maximisation of profit is their main
concern.
Birds are killed by the large blades, whose tips revolve at speeds
exceeding 100 mph while deceiving the victims by an appearance of
slowness. In Sweden, one wind turbine is reported to have killed 895
birds in one year - ref : California Energy Commission, A Roadmap for
PIER Research on Avian Collisions with Wind Turbines in California,
Dec. 2002, quoting Benner et al. (1993).
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