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N.J. coastal windfarms prompt wildlife concerns
Source: Copyright 2009, Star-Ledger
Date: October 25, 2009
Byline: Brian T. Murray
Original URL: Status ONLINE
Years ago, it would have been hard to stir up an argument over the need for solar panels or windmills to boost the state`s production of clean energy.
These days they can be a contentious issue, dividing many of the region`s most active environmental groups.
The Sierra Club, the New Jersey Environmental Federation and Environment New Jersey have long pushed the state for tighter controls on development in coastal areas where, among other creatures, rare and endangered migrating birds nest, feed and pass annually. But they are now vocally pressing the state Department of Environmental Protection to ease restrictions on large windmill and solar energy projects proposed in those same protected regions.
Groups such as the American Littoral Society, however, have endorsed the DEP`s more cautious approach to erecting windmills in sensitive wildlife habitats
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The debate is taking place as the ...
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