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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=3><STRONG><SPAN
style="COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">1. When will
Best Science <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">US</st1:place></st1:country-region> FWS interim wind turbine siting
guidelines be required instead of voluntary
observance?</SPAN></STRONG><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><STRONG><SPAN
style="COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><FONT
size=3>supporting: </FONT></SPAN></STRONG><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">
<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<H2 style="MARGIN: auto 0in"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><A
title=http://www.abcbirds.org/newsandreports/releases/070430_testimony.html
href="http://www.abcbirds.org/newsandreports/releases/070430_testimony.html">http://www.abcbirds.org/newsandreports/releases/070430_testimony.html</A><o:p></o:p></SPAN></H2>
<H2 style="MARGIN: auto 0in"><STRONG><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">Donald
Michael Fry, PhD Director, Pesticides and Birds Program of the American Bird
Conservancy to Chairwoman Bordello </SPAN></STRONG><STRONG><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">and
distinguished members of the Fisheries, Wildlife and Oceans Subcommittee on May
1, 2007; </SPAN></STRONG><STRONG><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">Oversight
Hearing on: “Gone with the Wind: Impacts of Wind Turbines on Birds and
Bats.”</SPAN></STRONG><STRONG><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">
: <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN></SPAN></STRONG><STRONG><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></STRONG></H2>
<H4 style="MARGIN: 12pt 0in 3pt"><STRONG><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">“</SPAN></STRONG><EM><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">The
Fish and Wildlife Service developed an interim series of voluntary siting
guidelines in 2003, and revised them after a prolonged comment period in 2005.
Federal guidelines must be </SPAN></EM><EM><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">required</SPAN></EM><EM><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">
rather than voluntary. The wind industry has provided ample evidence that
voluntary guidelines are regarded as unimportant and are thus summarily
dismissed”</SPAN></EM><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold"> </SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></H4>
<P class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-outline-level: 5"><STRONG><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Subject:
</SPAN></STRONG><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">House
Subcommittee on Fisheries, Wildlife and Oceans Oversight Hearing on
"<STRONG><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Going, Going, Gone</SPAN></STRONG>? An
Assessment of the Global Decline in Bird
Populations"<BR><BR><B>Held: </B>Thursday, July 10, 2008, at 10:00
a.m.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-outline-level: 5"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-outline-level: 5"><STRONG><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Testimony (excerpt
only):</SPAN></STRONG><SPAN
style="COLOR: black; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-outline-level: 5"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-outline-level: 5"><SPAN
style="COLOR: black; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold"><FONT size=3><FONT
face="Times New Roman">George Wallace, PhD<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-outline-level: 5"><SPAN
style="COLOR: black; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold"><FONT size=3><FONT
face="Times New Roman">Vice President for International
Programs<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-outline-level: 5"><SPAN
style="COLOR: black; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold"><FONT size=3><FONT
face="Times New Roman">American Bird
Conservancy<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-outline-level: 5"><SPAN
style="COLOR: black; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold"><o:p><FONT
face="Times New Roman" size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-outline-level: 5"><SPAN
style="COLOR: black; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold"><FONT size=3><FONT
face="Times New Roman">"Last year, my colleague at ABC, Dr. Michael Fry
presented testimony to the full Committee on the ongoing impact of commercial
wind energy production.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>While the
actual number of birds killed by wind turbines is unknown, estimates have been
made in the range of 30,000 to 60,000 birds per year at the current level of
wind development.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>However, the wind
industry is prepared to increase the number of turbines 30 fold over the next 20
years in order to fulfill the President’s request that renewable energy projects
supply 20% of the nation’s energy needs by 2030.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>At the current estimated mortality rate,
the wind industry will be killing 900,000 to 1.8 million birds per year.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>While this number is a relatively small
percentage of the total number of birds estimated to live in <st1:place
w:st="on"><u1:place u2:st="on">North
America</st1:place></FONT></FONT></u1:place><FONT size=3><FONT
face="Times New Roman">, many of the bird species being killed are already
declining for other reasons, and losses of more than a million birds per year
would exacerbate these declines.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN><o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-outline-level: 5"><SPAN
style="COLOR: black; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold"><o:p><FONT
face="Times New Roman" size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-outline-level: 5"><SPAN
style="COLOR: black; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold"><FONT size=3><FONT
face="Times New Roman">ABC recommends that any renewal of the production tax
credit by Congress include provisions that require minimizing bird and bat kills
by wind projects, and require developers to follow standard Best Management
Practices in avoiding and minimizing bird and wildlife impacts in order to
qualify for the full, taxpayer-provided subsidy."<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN><B><o:p></o:p></B></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="mso-outline-level: 5"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN
style="COLOR: black"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman">The Department of
the Interior and <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on"><u1:country-region
u2:st="on">U.S.</st1:place></st1:country-region></FONT></FONT></u1:country-region><FONT
size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman"> Fish and Wildlife Service guidelines
for siting wind towers in 2003: <o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></B></P>
<P style="mso-outline-level: 5"><SPAN
style="COLOR: black; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold"><FONT size=3><FONT
face="Times New Roman">"--Avoid placing turbines in documented locations of any
species of wildlife, fish, or plant protected under the ESA.
<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="mso-outline-level: 5"><SPAN
style="COLOR: black; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold"><FONT size=3><FONT
face="Times New Roman">-- Avoid locating turbines in known local bird-migration
pathways or in areas where birds are highly concentrated, unless mortality risk
is low (e.g., birds rarely enter the rotor-swept area). Examples of
high-concentration areas for birds are wetlands, state or federal refuges,
private duck clubs, staging areas, rookeries, roosts, riparian areas along
streams, and landfills. <o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="mso-outline-level: 5"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman"><SPAN
style="COLOR: black; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">-- Avoid known daily-movement
flyways (e.g., between roosting and feeding areas) and areas with a high
incidence of fog, mist, low cloud ceilings, and low
visibility." </SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></FONT></P>
<P style="mso-outline-level: 5"><FONT size=3><STRONG><SPAN
style="COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">2. How will US FWS, or MMS,
reduce harm to endangered wildlife present in Nantucket Sound, post-construction
Cape Wind, as the technology to count bird carcasses caused by wind
turbines over water does not exist?</SPAN></STRONG><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P style="mso-outline-level: 5"><FONT size=3><STRONG><SPAN
style="COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">supporting: </SPAN></STRONG><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<H4 style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><STRONG><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">April
21, 2008 USFWS provided to Dr. Cluck, Cape Wind Project Manager of MMS,
this comments on the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceType
w:st="on">Cape</st1:PlaceType> <st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">Wind</st1:PlaceName></st1:place> MMS DEIS: </SPAN></STRONG><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial"><BR></SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></H4>
<H4 style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><EM><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">"The
current framework that MMS is proposing would forgo refinement of
pre-construction study protocols and set in motion an adaptive management
process that would be doomed to failure because effective techniques to perform
post-construction monitoring simply do not exist."</SPAN></EM><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></H4>
<H4 style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></H4>
<H4 style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial"> CAlifornians
for Renewable Energy President-Michael Boyd:
<o:p></o:p></SPAN></H4>
<H4 style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></H4>
<H4 style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><EM><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">"The
Cape Wind project is sited over water so there is no way to quantify the impact
of wind turbines on avian species because we have no way to count bird and bat
carcases like we do in the Altamont Pass California where the turbines are over
land. This also means that adaptive management will not work since we have no
way to gage the impact of mitigation measures for these wind
turbines."</SPAN></EM><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></H4>
<H4 style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></H4>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-outline-level: 5"><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><I><SPAN style="COLOR: black"><FONT
face="Times New Roman" size=3>By Chris Metinko, Inside Bay Area 4/24/07
(answering, Who is Michael Boyd?)<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN><BR></FONT><SPAN style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold"><BR><FONT
size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman">"A lawsuit filed against the county in
October by the Golden Gate Audubon Society, <U>Californians for Renewable
Energy</U> and four other local Audubon chapters challenged the county’s
decision o renew permits for Altamont Pass wind turbines. A subsequent
settlement forces the wind industry to commit to a 50 percent reduction in
raptor deaths by November 2009, and remove the deadliest turbines and continuing
winter shutdowns of the wind machines." [cut]
<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></SPAN></I></B></P>
<H4 style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></H4>
<H4 style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">3. As endangered species present
in Nantucket Sound are "at the brink of extinction", and Adaptive Management is
"doomed to failure" according to <st1:country-region
w:st="on">US</st1:country-region> FWS, how will MMS avoid immitigable
and illegal environmental damage, "extinction", post-construction
<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceType w:st="on">Cape</st1:PlaceType>
<st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Wind</st1:PlaceName></st1:place>?</SPAN><SPAN
style="COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></H4>
<H4 style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></H4>
<H4 style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">supporting: </SPAN><SPAN
style="COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></H4>
<H4 style="MARGIN: auto 0in"><st1:place w:st="on"><SPAN
style="COLOR: blue; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Cape Cod</SPAN></st1:place><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: blue; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> Times
4/22/08</SPAN><SPAN
style="COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></H4>
<H4 style="MARGIN: auto 0in"><SPAN
style="COLOR: blue; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Roseate terns: 'On the brink of
extinction'</SPAN><SPAN
style="COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></H4>
<H4 style="MARGIN: auto 0in"><EM><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">"The
roseate tern is listed as endangered, but we believe it is on the brink of
extinction,"</SPAN></EM><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">
said Jack Clarke, public policy director for the <st1:State w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Massachusetts</st1:place></st1:State> Audubon Society." <st1:place
w:st="on">Cape Cod</st1:place> Times 4/22/08. </SPAN><SPAN
style="COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></H4>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-outline-level: 5"><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><U><SPAN style="COLOR: black"><FONT
size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman">Mass Audubon's testimony on <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:PlaceType w:st="on"><u1:place u2:st="on"><u1:PlaceType
u2:st="on">Cape</st1:PlaceType></u1:PlaceType> <st1:PlaceName
w:st="on"><u1:PlaceName
u2:st="on">Wind</st1:PlaceName></st1:place></FONT></FONT></u1:PlaceName></u1:place><FONT
size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman"> to the USACE:
<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></U></B></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-outline-level: 5"><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN style="COLOR: black"><o:p><FONT
face="Times New Roman" size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></B></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-outline-level: 5"><B><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">The President of
Mass Audubon, Laura A. Johnson, submitted Mass Audubon's comments on the Cape
Wind DEIS on February 23, 2005; to Ms. Karen Kirk Adams, the Cape Wind Energy
Project Manager U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, New England District -- Reference
File No. NAE-2004-338-1, EOEA No. 12643: <o:p></o:p></SPAN></B></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-outline-level: 5"><B><SPAN
style="COLOR: black"><o:p><FONT face="Times New Roman"
size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></B></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-outline-level: 5"><B><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">"By utilizing other
bird mortality data provided in the DEIS, Mass Audubon staff scientists arrived
at avian mortalities that ranged from 2,300 to 6,600 collision deaths per year."
</SPAN></B><B><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><A
title=http://www.massaudubon.org/PDF/CapeWindDEIS.pdf
href="http://www.massaudubon.org/PDF/CapeWindDEIS.pdf">http://www.massaudubon.org/PDF/CapeWindDEIS.pdf</A>
<o:p></o:p></SPAN></B></P>
<H4 style="MARGIN: 12pt 0in 3pt"><STRONG><U><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">Dr.
Fry of ABC May 1, 2007; testimony to Chairwoman Bordello
continued...</SPAN></U></STRONG><SPAN
style="COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></H4>
<H4 style="MARGIN: 12pt 0in 3pt"><STRONG><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">"Biological
Significance of wind turbine mortality" </SPAN></STRONG><SPAN
style="COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></H4>
<H2 style="MARGIN: auto 0in"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Excepts:
<o:p></o:p></SPAN></H2>
<H2 style="MARGIN: 12pt 0in 3pt"><EM><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">"</SPAN></EM><EM><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">Collaborative
efforts to successfully address the impacts of wind projects on birds and
wildlife have been a failure” </SPAN></EM><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal; FONT-SIZE: 8pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></H2>
<H4 style="MARGIN: auto 0in"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">"While
the actual number of birds killed by wind turbines is unknown, estimates have
been made in the range of 30,000 to 60,000 per year at the current level of wind
development. The wind industry is prepared to increase the number of turbines 30
fold over the next 20 years, in order to fulfill the President’s request that
renewable energy projects supply 20% of the nation’s energy needs by 2030.
</SPAN><SPAN style="COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></H4>
<H4 style="MARGIN: auto 0in"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">At
the current estimated mortality rate, the wind industry will be killing 900,000
to 1.8 million birds per year." [cut]</SPAN><SPAN
style="COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></H4>
<H4 style="MARGIN: auto 0in"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">‘From
'Selling the Wind' National Audubon, on wind tower siting:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></H4>
<H4 style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">“The
fear is that with all the new wind farms rolling out, there is a new <st1:place
w:st="on"><u1:place u2:st="on">Altamont</st1:place></u1:place> being created
today,” says Greg Butcher, National Audubon’s director of bird conservation.
“But because we don’t have the data, we just don’t know about
it."<o:p></o:p></SPAN></H4>
<H4 style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></H4>
<H4 style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">"The
exact reasons for the improvement are a matter of debate, but collisions seem
far fewer when wind farms keep out of major flyways and give a wide berth to
rich prey sites like Altamont and attractive bird habitats such as wetlands.
Some researchers speculate that modern technology also helps reduce the risks,
since newer turbines allow the same amount of electricity to be generated with
far fewer turbines."</SPAN><SPAN
style="COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></H4>
<H4 style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="COLOR: black"><FONT
face="Times New Roman"> <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></H4>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-outline-level: 5"><B><SPAN
style="COLOR: black"><A title=http://www.abcbirds.org/policy_wind_testimony.htm
href="http://www.abcbirds.org/policy_wind_testimony.htm"><FONT
face="Times New Roman" size=3>The House Subcommittee on Fisheries, Wildlife and
Oceans</FONT></A><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman">
<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></B></P>
<P style="mso-outline-level: 5"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Testimony of Donald
Michael Fry, PhD Director, Pesticides and Birds Program<BR>American Bird
Conservancy<BR>May 1, 2007<BR>Room 1324 <u1:place u2:st="on"><u1:PlaceName
u2:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">Longworth</u1:PlaceName></st1:PlaceName> <u1:PlaceName
u2:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">House</u1:PlaceName></st1:PlaceName>
<u1:PlaceName u2:st="on"><st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">Office</u1:PlaceName></st1:PlaceName> <u1:PlaceType
u2:st="on"><st1:PlaceType
w:st="on">Building</u1:PlaceType></u1:place></st1:PlaceType></st1:place>.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></B></P>
<P style="mso-outline-level: 5"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN
style="COLOR: black"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman">American Bird
Conservancy, ABC<SPAN
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">: <o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></FONT></SPAN></B></P>
<P style="mso-outline-level: 5"><B><SPAN style="COLOR: black"><FONT size=3><FONT
face="Times New Roman">Donald Michael Fry, PhD Director, Pesticides and Birds
Program<BR>American Bird Conservancy<BR>May 1,
2007<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></B></P>
<P style="mso-outline-level: 5"><FONT size=3><FONT
face="Times New Roman"><STRONG><SPAN style="COLOR: black">"Identification of
important bird areas. </SPAN></STRONG><B><SPAN style="COLOR: black">These
areas should be off-limits to wind development unless adequate preventative
measures can be discovered to minimize incidental take of protected bird
species."<o:p></o:p></SPAN></B></FONT></FONT></P>
<P style="mso-outline-level: 5"><B><SPAN style="COLOR: black"><FONT size=3><FONT
face="Times New Roman">"Sites requiring special scrutiny include <U>sites that
are frequented by federally listed endangered species of birds and bats, in
known bird migration pathways, areas where birds are highly concentrated,</U>
and areas that have landscape features known to attract large numbers of
raptors." <o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></B></P>
<P style="mso-outline-level: 5"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">It is important and
relevant to <u1:PlaceType u2:st="on"><st1:PlaceType
w:st="on">Cape</u1:PlaceType></st1:PlaceType> <u1:PlaceName
u2:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Wind</u1:PlaceName></st1:PlaceName> to
note:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></SPAN><SPAN
style="COLOR: black; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold"><FONT size=3><FONT
face="Times New Roman">"...the American Bird Conservancy has designated
<u1:place u2:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Cape
Cod</u1:place></FONT></FONT></st1:place><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3> and
the nearby islands as an Important Bird Area" 'Killer Wind' by Joe Eaton.
</FONT></SPAN></B><B><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></B></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-outline-level: 5"><B><SPAN
style="COLOR: black"><FONT size=3><FONT
face="Times New Roman">http://www.earthisland.org/eijournal/new_articles.cfm?articleID=940&journalID=82<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></B></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-outline-level: 5"><B><SPAN
style="COLOR: black"><o:p><FONT face="Times New Roman"
size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></B></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-outline-level: 5"><st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on"><STRONG><SPAN style="COLOR: black"><u1:place
u2:st="on"><u1:City u2:st="on"><FONT face="Times New Roman"
size=3>Altamont</FONT></SPAN></STRONG></st1:City><STRONG><SPAN
style="COLOR: black"></u1:City><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman">
<u1:State u2:st="on"><st1:State
w:st="on">CA</u1:State></FONT></FONT></st1:State></SPAN></STRONG></st1:place><STRONG><SPAN
style="COLOR: black"></u1:place><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3> wind tower
siting workshop</FONT></SPAN></STRONG><B><SPAN style="COLOR: black"><FONT
size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman">:
<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></B></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-outline-level: 5"><B><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></B></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-outline-level: 5"><B><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><A
title=http://www.altamontsrc.org/alt_workshops.php
href="http://www.altamontsrc.org/alt_workshops.php"><SPAN
style="COLOR: purple">http://www.altamontsrc.org/alt_workshops.php</SPAN></A><o:p></o:p></SPAN></B></P>
<H1 style="MARGIN: auto 0in"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; COLOR: black"><FONT
face="Times New Roman">“<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on"><u1:place
u2:st="on"><u1:PlaceName u2:st="on">Altamont</st1:PlaceName></u1:PlaceName>
<st1:PlaceType w:st="on"><u1:PlaceType
u2:st="on">Pass</st1:PlaceType></st1:place></FONT></u1:PlaceType></u1:place><FONT
face="Times New Roman"> turbines still killing birds of prey”
<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></H1>
<H1 style="MARGIN: auto 0in"><FONT face="Times New Roman"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 16pt; COLOR: black"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN></SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black">January 12,
2008<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></H1>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-outline-level: 5"><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><I><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10.5pt; COLOR: #333333; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">“Year-old plan to
reduce the number of birds killed by turbines isn't
working”<o:p></o:p></SPAN></I></B></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-outline-level: 5"><SPAN
style="COLOR: black; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold"><A
title=http://www.recordnet.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080112/A_NEWS/801120316
href="http://www.recordnet.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080112/A_NEWS/801120316"><SPAN
style="COLOR: purple"><FONT face="Times New Roman"
size=3>http://www.recordnet.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080112/A_NEWS/801120316</FONT></SPAN></A><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<H1 style="MARGIN: auto 0in"><FONT face="Times New Roman"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; COLOR: black">San Francisco Chronicle</SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black">: January 2, 2008 page A 1:
</SPAN><SPAN
style="COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></H1>
<H1 style="MARGIN: auto 0in"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black"><FONT
face="Times New Roman">THE DEADLY TOLL OF WIND POWER
<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></H1>
<H2 style="MARGIN: auto 0in"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black"><FONT
face="Times New Roman">“Despite yearlong effort to curb bird deaths by turbines
on the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on"><u1:place
u2:st="on"><u1:PlaceName u2:st="on">Altamont</st1:PlaceName></u1:PlaceName>
<st1:PlaceType w:st="on"><u1:PlaceType
u2:st="on">Pass</st1:PlaceType></st1:place></FONT></u1:PlaceType></u1:place><FONT
face="Times New Roman">, many still have
perished…” <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></H2>
<H2 style="MARGIN: auto 0in"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><A
title=http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2008/01/02/MNITTM9FA.DTL
href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2008/01/02/MNITTM9FA.DTL"><SPAN
style="COLOR: purple">http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2008/01/02/MNITTM9FA.DTL</SPAN></A></SPAN><SPAN
style="COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></H2>
<H2 style="MARGIN: auto 0in"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Dr. Fry's testimony of
May 1, 2007: </SPAN><SPAN
style="COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></H2>
<H2 style="MARGIN: auto 0in"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><A
title=http://www.abcbirds.org/newsandreports/releases/070430_testimony.html
href="http://www.abcbirds.org/newsandreports/releases/070430_testimony.html">http://www.abcbirds.org/newsandreports/releases/070430_testimony.html</A></SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></H2>
<P class=bodytext style="MARGIN: auto 0in; mso-outline-level: 3"><STRONG><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">THIS IS THE LEGAL
QUAGMIRE WE MUST AVOID...</SPAN></STRONG><B><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">see <A
title=http://www.altamontsrc.org/alt_settlement.php
href="http://www.altamontsrc.org/alt_settlement.php">http://www.altamontsrc.org/alt_settlement.php</A> look
on the left side for a copy of the settlement</SPAN></B></P>
<P class=bodytext style="MARGIN: auto 0in; mso-outline-level: 3"><B><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Thank You,
</SPAN></B></P>
<P class=bodytext style="MARGIN: auto 0in; mso-outline-level: 3"><B><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Barbara Durkin
</SPAN></B></P>
<P class=bodytext style="MARGIN: auto 0in; mso-outline-level: 3"><B><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"></SPAN></B> </P>
<P class=bodytext style="MARGIN: auto 0in; mso-outline-level: 3"><B><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></B> </P>
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