Bird-spotters convert to wind power

摘要

The new wind turbine at Rainham Marshes could have special significance in the story of UK renewables. It's nothing unusual in technical terms, nor in scale - it's only a little 15kW job, just enough to help power a visitor centre. The point is that it's a flagship visitor centre of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds. As such, it's symbolically signalling that bird protection and wind power don't belong in opposing camps.rnAnti-turbine campaigners tend to make great play of the 'bird kill' card, citing the RSPB's all-too-frequent objections to wind farms in the past. The Rainham turbine could do more to put this in perspective than any number of carefully weighed RSPB statements about case-by-case evaluation.