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Wind turbines caused senseless deaths of geese

Posted 12/12/11

To the Editor Wednesday night I drove through some very thick fog. As I traveled NY190 from Ellenburg to Brainardsville my foglights illuminated one of the grizzliest scenes I have ever experienced. …

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Wind turbines caused senseless deaths of geese

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To the Editor

Wednesday night I drove through some very thick fog. As I traveled NY190 from Ellenburg to Brainardsville my foglights illuminated one of the grizzliest scenes I have ever experienced.

I counted 15 bloody, mutilated corpses of snow geese spread out over several miles. I counted only those on the road because those were the only ones I could see due to the heavy fog.

I do not know how many more were spread across the yards and crossroads.

Shortly after passing NY374 I noticed there were no more dead birds.

I only saw the dead birds as I drove near the wind turbines.

The big corporation and land owners who stand to make large sums of money putting up wind towers of monstrous heights in the towns of Hopkinton and Parishville keep telling us that the towers are safe.

The wind industry propaganda says that windows kill more birds than wind turbines.

How many geese have flown into your windows? I can’t say I have ever known that to happen.

But I do know that last night a whole flock of geese flying over the woods and farms their ancestors have always traveled were smashed, battered, and thrown to their death.

I can only pray that no humans were injured when the falling dead geese struck them or their vehicles.

Kelly Johnson-Eilola

St. Regis Falls