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Berwick Bank offshore wind farm project approved for North Sea (www.bbc.co.uk)
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Just so we're aware: there's no solid evidence that offshore wind affects birds. And it's 23 miles off shore.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-023-31601-z

What is fairly clear is that birds avoid the farms in essence. And we've loads of sea!

Hooray for SSE. 307 turbines of potentially 4.1GW rivals a large nuclear plant. For a fraction of the price!

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[–] pdxfed@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

"conservationists" likely funded by petrodollars.