Highlights of the recommendations include a decision-making framework that guides all stages of wind energy development, reliance on the best available science when assessing renewable energy projects and their potential environmental impact and use of landscape-scaled planning that recognizes the need to think long-term about protecting the nation’s economic and natural resources.
Released April 13, 2010
WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today transmitted a set of final recommendations on how to minimize the impacts of land-based wind farms on wildlife and its habitat to Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar.
These recommendations represent the consensus of the 22 diverse members of the Wind Turbine Guidelines Federal Advisory Committee and were reached during a more than two-year process. Secretary Salazar plans to review the recommendations and take them under advisement as he directs the Service to develop guidelines for evaluating wind energy development on public and private lands.
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