SafeWind: Wind Farms, Wildlife and the Environment

Do offshore wind farms harm marine life?
Learn about how offshore wind farms could affect whales, seals, fish, and marine turtles.

Frequently Asked Questions: Do turbines kill birds?
SafeWind answers your questions about how wind farms affect birds.

Offshore wind farms and the public trust
SafeWind answers your questions about how public trust doctrine applies to U.S. offshore wind farms.

Frequently Asked Questions: Do turbines kill bats?
SafeWind answers your questions about how wind farms affect bats..

Harm to birds from wind farms can be minimized
While some collisions occur no matter where a facility is located, the magnitude and severity of such impacts can be minimized by careful siting, as well as mitigation strategies.

Questions and answers about wind farms, wildlife and global warming
The Humane Society of the United States tackles tough questions about our energy choices.

Thirty songbirds die at a single turbine in one night
The Cumberland Times-News reports that 30 songbirds were killed at a single turbine during a night of dense fog in Tucker County, West Virginia, in June 2003. Bright lights may have been part of the reason so many birds died.

To read more information about the other proposed wind farm areas, please click on any of the links listed below.
New York

Mid-Atlantic
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New England

Connecticut Clean Energy: Wind energy in the Northeastern United States (689Kb)
Letter requesting a programmatic review of coastal wind farm sites (5/9/03)

Massachusetts Sites

Cape Wind Proposal
Click here to visit the Cape Wind website

News Reports
	Cape Cod Times: Bird experts say timing is key for wind farm study (1/3/03) (11Kb) New York Times Magazine: A Mighty Wind (6/15/03) Cape Cod Times: State says seabed dealings amiss (3/12/04) To view more news reports about the Cape Wind proposal, click here.<

Editorials
	Cape Cod Times: A united front on wind issues (2/14/03) (7Kb) Boston Globe: The color of money (4/20/03) Cape Cod Voice: A chicken in every pot, a windmill in every town (7/21/03) To view more editorials and opinion about the Cape Wind proposal, click here.

Organizational Position Statements
	Statement of Concerns Massachusetts Audubon Society: Position Statment (12/26/01) (26Kb) To view more position statements on the Cape Wind proposal, click here.


Biology and Ecology of Nantucket Sound
	Center for Coastal Studies: Review of State and Federal Marine Protection of the Ecological Resources of Nantucket Sound (914Kb) U.S. Fish & Wildlife: proposal 'not sufficient,' three-year study optimal (20Kb) I.C.T. Nisbet & Company: Comments on the Cape Wind proposal regarding potential bird impacts (3/26/02) (574Kb) To read more about the biology and ecology of Nantucket Sound, click here.

To learn more about the Cape Wind proposal, click here.

Winergy Proposal

Click here to visit the Winergy website.

To learn more about the Winergy proposal, click here.

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