Wind turbines are friendlier to birds than oil-and-gas drilling
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Re: Wind turbines are friendlier to birds than oil-and-gas drilling
#2What a weird comparison. Nobody is saying we should drill oil and gas instead of wind turbines.
Re: Wind turbines are friendlier to birds than oil-and-gas drilling
#3What a weird comparison. Nobody is saying we should drill oil and gas instead of wind turbines.
Well, there have been campaigns and articles for years attacking wind energy on the basis of protecting birds.
Re: Wind turbines are friendlier to birds than oil-and-gas drilling
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#5I wish a proper study on this could get some real funding. The cited study is certainly better than nothing but it's based on a volunteer reported survey with significant response bias (eg. maybe the drop in bird sightings near oil and gas drilling is because people don't want to go birdwatching near an oil field).
Re: Wind turbines are friendlier to birds than oil-and-gas drilling
#6What a weird comparison. Nobody is saying we should drill oil and gas instead of wind turbines.
The Canadian province of Alberta has more or less this exact policy.
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Re: Wind turbines are friendlier to birds than oil-and-gas drilling
#8What a weird comparison. Nobody is saying we should drill oil and gas instead of wind turbines.
Well, there have been campaigns and articles for years attacking wind energy on the basis of protecting birds.
Of course, if your neighbor has a good turbine spot and you don't, you have to look at it while his property's utility rises over yours.
That, cannot be tolerated. They're free to move to industrial zoned land if they want to be a power plant.
(Neither the ag-backwoods voters controlling their zoning nor capitalists installing them are hyper concerned about sparrows getting chopped up. It's a ruse.)
Re: Wind turbines are friendlier to birds than oil-and-gas drilling
#9What a weird comparison. Nobody is saying we should drill oil and gas instead of wind turbines.
What would be a better comparison?
Re: Wind turbines are friendlier to birds than oil-and-gas drilling
#10I want to believe, but this article is less than convincing without reading detail about the study’s methods.
I didn’t see a link to the paper on my first read. When I decided to go back and get the author’s name, Economist’s paywall kicked in.
If anybody can see the full article, it would be lovely if you put the name of the researcher in the comments so I can read the original paper.