Comments on: CLF Ventures Releases Land-based Wind Energy Guide

By: Walker Larsen

Walker Larsen — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 19:45:37 +0000

We agree that habitat loss and fragmentation are critical issues to consider when evaluating wind energy development projects. This guide is not intended to be an exhaustive list of potential issues, but is rather an overview of some of the issues being voiced by communities as they consider wind projects. This is in fact why the guide puts so much emphasis on the community process and stakeholder engagement: one group will not be able to identify and consider every aspect of a project. Wind energy development should be open and inclusive in order to ensure that multiple and different points of view, and respective priorities and concerns, will be aired and considered.

By: Tom Gray

Tom Gray — Fri, 08 Jul 2011 19:56:33 +0000

Global climate change is the biggest threat to biodiversity.–Tom Gray, Wind Energy Communications Consultant

By: Jane Winn

Jane Winn — Thu, 07 Jul 2011 17:31:45 +0000

I can’t believe CLF totally ignored the biggest threat to biodiversity – loss and fragmentation of habitat. The biggest problem with badly sited industrial wind is that it is fragmenting previously unfragmented habitat. Many, many conservation organizations are working against a closing window of opportunity to save what is left of our large unfragmented forest blocks. Right now, one of the biggest threats to being able to do that is industrial wind. Wind should be sited where there is existing fragmentation, existing infrastructure, and existing distribution lines. That CLF never mentions fragmentation as major threat to biodiversity in this document is very depressing.