571-232-0440 info@vctpp.org

Not Seeing the Forest for the Trees

Scottish government figures show that millions of trees have been cut down in order to build wind turbines to help the region meet its renewable energy goals. The Times of London reports that more than 6,200 acres of woodland — or about five million trees — have been...

Wind Farms Killing Eagles

Wind energy facilities have killed at least 67 golden and bald eagles in the last five years, but the figure could be much higher, according to a new scientific study by government biologists. The research represents one of the first tallies of eagle deaths attributed...

Birds vs. Wind Turbine Blades

Hundreds of thousands of birds are killed every year after they fly into gigantic wind turbine blades. It’s unclear how many of them are eagles, but wildlife groups say that birds of prey on the lookout for food often ignore the blades. Existing permits allow green...

Danger to Birds — Wind Farms!

Wind farms are Giant Scythes Of Swinging Doom, when it comes to birds. The American Bird Conservancy rather desperately wants to support wind power, which is why they’re begging wind farms to somehow stop the darn things from being on track to kill a million birds a...