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Esther Gesick
From: BETH A BASSEIN [bsein@msn.com]
Sent: Friday, September 08, 2006 6:18 AM
To: matt@glnrg.com; kevin@glnrg.com; Esther Gesick
Because of possible dangers to wildlife, especially birds, please follow the Department of Wildlife's
recommendations for developing the Cedar Creek windfarm near Pawnee National Grasslands. Beth Ann
Bassein, Colorado Springs
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Sent: Thursday, September 07, 2006 12:07 PM
Subject: Audubon Alert: Help minimize disturbance to the Pawnee Grassland
Quick E-Mail to ask Developer to Mitigate Impacts on Birds
Audubon supports alternative energy, but there are some possible damaging impacts on birds and habitat
from a new wind energy development that's about to be constructed on the northern edge of the Pawnee
National Grassland. As any of you who have been on Steve Vaughan's wonderful field trips to the
Pawnee can attest, this is a very special area. No one is proposing to stop this development—nor can they,
since it is on private land. There will definitely be visual impacts from very large turbines (windmills), but of
greater concern is the impact on birds from the siting of the large array. For the sake of the birds, please
consider submitting comments to the developer. Write, as soon as you can --and definitely by mid-
September--to tell Greenlight Energy of Virginia that the escarpment and the surrounding shortgrass prairie
are important to birders, conservationists and others, and that these are an important part of Colorado's
heritage that needs to be protected. If Greenlight Energy realizes that the public is watching it, we hope it will
do the right thing.
Feel free to cut and paste or edit this sample "quickie" e-mail:
Dear Greenlight Energy: I am a Colorado resident who asks you to act as a good corporate citizen and
voluntarily follow the Department Of Wildlife's recommendations for your Cedar Creek windfarm near the
Pawnee National Grasslands. We care about birds! Thank you.
Yours sincerely[your full name and address]
Send copies to Matt Hantzmon, Managing Director, matt@glnrg.com and
to Kevin Davis, Director of Project Development, kevin@glnrg.com.
You can also copy those comments to the Weld County Commissioners at egesick@co.weld.co.us.
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A bit more info, should you desire it: We want Greenlight Energy, at minimum, to follow the Colorado Division
of Wildlife's recommendation that the Cedar Creek turbines be kept 1/2-mile from eagle and prairie falcon
nests and 1/4 mile from other raptor nests in the Pawnee National Grassland. These buffers are to protect
the nesting birds from human disturbances associated with operating and maintaining the turbines. Indeed,
none of the turbines should be within 1/2-mile of the rim --where roughly 75 active and inactive raptor nests
have been identified this year. In addition it is important to avoid disturbance of ground-nesting birds during
the construction of each of the turbines. This is an extraordinary area, visited by many citizens from all over
Colorado, and it would not be in Greenlight's corporate interests to alienate so many people. We hope they
will act as good corporate citizens and respect the environment, the resources, and the people of Colorado.
9/8/2006
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