RE: E-M:/ Great Lakes Wind

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David Poulson

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Knight Center for Environmental Journalism

Michigan State University

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From: owner-enviro-mich@great-lakes.net [mailto:owner-enviro-mich@great-lakes.net] On Behalf Of HAMILTREEF@aol.com
Sent: Thursday, July 17, 2008 1:44 PM
To: FRANKZAS@aol.com; poulson@msu.edu; enviro-mich@great-lakes.net
Cc: KNIGHTLINE@LIST.MSU.EDU
Subject: Re: E-M:/ Great Lakes Wind & Birds

David, Your coal generating concerns for birds may be valid, but as usual there are some exceptions. The peregrine falcons are doing well with the hacking boxes on the smokestacks at Muskegon, Grand Haven, Port Sheldon, and other places. The following articles have some neat photos.

Tom Hamilton, Montague

Smokestack falcons hatch healthy broods

http://blog.mlive.com/chronicle/2008/05/smokestack_falcons_hatch_healt.html

New brood of Peregrine falcons hatch in GH

http://blog.mlive.com/chronicle/2007/05/new_brood_of_peregrine_falcons.html

Rare peregrine falcons hatch 2 at Campbell plant

http://www.grandhaventribune.com/paid/323733382110798.bsp

In a message dated 7/17/2008 12:16:16 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, FRANKZAS@aol.com writes:

However, shouldn't we also be concerned with the number of birds killed by coal plants? The whole process of generating electricity from coal seems detrimental to birds. (We know it is detrimental to humans.) One can start with mining and mountaintop removal (bird habitat destruction). Coal plants have smokestacks and cooling towers which emit ultra hot polluted air and steam and can confuse and kill migrating birds at night. And, the solid and gaseous wastes from coal plants contain particle matter (causes haze), nitrogen oxides and sulfur dioxide (acid rain and smog), arsenic, lead, mercury, CO2 (global warming) and many other pollutants.

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