News Digest Item
22 Aug 2016

“Significantly increased risk of killing”

Welt am Sonntag

In a long article in Welt am Sonntag, Daniel Wetzel writes about the dangers of wind turbines for birds and the resulting clash between nature and climate protection advocates. A wind power project in the south of Germany could set a legal precedence: German utility EnBW requests the permission to set up two large turbines in an area frequented by breeding pairs of the protected red kite species. EnBW argues that the public interest was more important than the protection of the birds, writes Wetzel.

Read the article in German here.

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