LA Weekly

The Kercrest and Los Angeles Audubon Chapters of the Audubon Society have done as they warned they would: Filed suit against the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power over the Pine Tree Wind Project. Here's an excerpt from their press release:

Birdwatchers have seen up to 6,000 birds in one dawn in a small area near the wind farm site. Yet the LADWP did no avian studies looking for migratory songbirds during the spring, especially the peak migration period of April 15 to May 30 for the biological assessment in their EIR. The document contained one visit by the LADWP biologist on April 28, and that visit was in the afternoon. In our opinion, this kind of study is not sufficient to conclude that that the project ‘would have no substantial impact on avian wildlife.’”

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