United Kingdom: Wind farm scrapped over fears for birds

Guardian: A £1.5bn wind farm that could have powered almost 400,000 homes has been rejected by the government because it might kill 90 small birds a year. Over £10m, and three and a half years of planning, have been wasted on the 540 megawatt Docking Shoal offshore wind farm near the Lincolnshire and north Norfolk coast which was turned down by the Department of Energy and Climate Change on Friday. "It appears to come down to 94 sandwich terns," said a spokesman for Centrica, the parent group of British...

URL: http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/jul/06/wind-farm-scrapped-fear-birds
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