Wind turbines to slow down to give migrating birds safe passage
Dutch NewsClimate minister Rob Jetten will ask energy companies to slow down their wind turbines on the North Sea twice a year to prevent thousands of migrating birds from being killed by the fast-turning blades, according to a report by press agency Bloomberg. Expert estimate that the turbine blades kill some 50,000 birds every year as off shore wind farms proliferate on their migratory routes. No warning of great numbers of birds on the wing has come in so far, ‘perhaps because the birds have chosen a different route or have not started their migration yet,’ a ministry spokeman told RTL Nieuws. On land, wind farm Krammer in the province of Zeeland, which is home to the osprey, is the only Dutch wind farm to use a warning system to prevent birds from being killed.
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