"A proposed wind turbine project near the Lake Ontario shoreline is drawing criticism from bird conservation groups.The Lighthouse Wind Project would put up to 70 or so wind turbines in parts of Orleans and Niagara Counties, near the lake shore, and that has brought concerns from an organization called the American Bird Conservancy. The group rates that project as one of the 10 worst sited wind farms in the U.S., because it says it has the potential of severely impacting raptors and songbirds.
The president of the Audubon Society of the Genesee Valley, June Summers, notes that some birds that migrate long distances are already in peril, and she says these turbines would create the potential of serious injuries or death to those birds since there is a migration corridor near the lake."
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