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Potential impact on birds by large solar plants that concentrate the sun

To: "'Wayne Gregson'" <>
Subject: Potential impact on birds by large solar plants that concentrate the sun's rays
From: "Peter Ormay" <>
Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2014 20:02:56 +1000

Thank you Wayne.

I couldn’t see any information on any bird kills associated with this project.

Does anyone know where such information may be available?

Rgds

Peter

 

From: Wayne Gregson [
Sent: Tuesday, 19 August 2014 6:42 PM
To: Peter Ormay
Cc: 'COG List'
Subject: Re: [canberrabirds] Potential impact on birds by large solar plants that concentrate the sun's rays

 

Peter

 

see article at this link

 

cheers

 

Wayne Gregson

Thanks Ian for this. Does anyone know if there are any mirror/boiler tower solar plants in Australia?

Rgds,  Peter

 

From: Baird, Ian [m("act.gov.au","Ian.Baird");">]
Sent: Tuesday, 19 August 2014 4:11 PM
To: m("canberrabirds.org.au","canberrabirds");">
Subject: [canberrabirds] Potential impact on birds by large solar plants that concentrate the sun's rays

 

COG members should keep this potential impact on birds in mind:-

 

https://au.finance.yahoo.com/news/emerging-solar-plants-scorch-birds-130203799.html

 

Rgds,

 

Ian Baird

 

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