Save The River statement concerning BP's Cape Vincent Wind Project
April 19th, 2013 | Posted by Lee
Given
our mission, we are keenly aware of the need to find and implement effective
solutions to a changing climate and support efforts to shift energy production
to renewable, appropriately scaled and sited sources. Because of
this, we have viewed the proliferation of commercial, industrial wind projects
and the increasing number of turbines within each project proposed to be
located in the upper St. Lawrence River region with concern.
Consistent
with our mission of protecting the environmental integrity of the St. Lawrence
River and the species, human and animal, that depend on it, we are adamantly
opposed to the CVWP Project moving to the application phase under Article 10
until a comprehensive, cumulative assessment of bird and bat mortality is
conducted which includes all projects which have been proposed in the River
region. This assessment should be bi-national and coordinated among the several
federal, state and provincial governments that have the authority, jurisdiction
and agencies with requisite expertise to conduct such an assessment. Allowing
pre-construction studies (supplemented by totally useless post-construction
studies) undertaken piecemeal and by project proponents is a woefully
inadequate way to address the issues alluded to in CVWP’s own documents.
Save
The River believes that the people of Cape Vincent, the River region and New
York State deserve and should demand new, comprehensive, cumulative studies of
potental bird and bat mortality in order to better determine the true nature of
the potential threat to this critical flyway.
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