Turbines
in the Bull Hill Wind project in Township 16 in Hancock County rotate in the
breeze in this May 2018 file photo. Developers for the proposed Weaver Wind
project a few miles away are offering to conserve 5,800 acres of land in
eastern coastal Maine to mitigate the impact that 22-turbine project is
expected to have on birds.
A wind
power development firm behind a proposal that state officials think will pose a
threat to birds is offering to conserve 5,800 acres of woods and wetlands in
Hancock and Washington counties as wildlife habitat.
Longroad
Energy, which has applied to the state Department of Environmental Protection
for approval to erect 22 turbines in Eastbrook and Osborn in Hancock County,
has the support of the state Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife in the
mitigation proposal, which in effect would serve as compensation for the
adverse impact the turbines would have on birds.
In 2015,
the DIF&W publicly
opposed the Weaver Wind project, which at the time was being
proposed by the now-defunct SunEdison renewable energy firm. Officials with
DIF&W noted at the time that the impact on birds of the existing Bull Hill
Wind farm nearby in Township 16 already was significant and that erecting more
turbines a few miles away “will represent significant adverse cumulative impact
to migrating birds.”
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