Here is a report on Pennsylvania's wind farm wildlife impacts. It does tend to reinforce our findings from West Virginia sites, and it is a little more current and comprehensive than anything I have seen in WV. The Pennsylvania Game Commission now requires one year of pre-construction bird and bat surveys, and two years of post-construction surveys. The WV PSC has tended toward 3 years of post-construction surveys, so we are a little more stringent than PA in that regard. Now if we can only get the same requirement for coal-fired power plants, transmission lines, and MTR strip mines.
JBK
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Jeff Schmidt jeff.schmidt@sierraclub.org 01/15/2009 09:56 AM Please respond to Jeff Schmidt jeff.schmidt@sierraclub.org
Attached you will find the PA Game Commission's report on their wind energy "Voluntary Cooperator's Agreement" and the sucesses and failure of working with the various wind energy companies in siting wind facilities in PA.
The report contains a lot of valuable data, and is a window into the current status of wind energy in PA.
Jeff