WASHINGTON (AP) — A bird
advocacy group says a proposed North Dakota wind farm should undergo a stricter
environmental review of threats posed to the endangered whooping crane.
The Washington-based American
Bird Conservancy said Friday that it was among 76 groups calling for the
tougher review of the Merricourt Wind Power Project.
The group says the coalition is
asking the federal Fish and Wildlife Service to prepare an environmental impact
statement for the project instead of an abbreviated environmental assessment.
The conservancy says the 100 turbine project is planned in a key migration
route for many birds, including endangered whooping cranes and threatened
piping plovers.
Project developer enXco had
originally planned to sell the wind power to Xcel Energy, which dropped out in
2011 over potential harm to the two bird species.
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