A wind farm in northeastern Brazil sounds like a welcome climate-friendly energy solution, but it is causing controversy over another kind of envir...
An endangered Lear's macaw flies over a reserve near the Canudos Biological Station, close to the Canudos Wind Energy Complex in Canudos, Bahia state, Brazil.BRASILIA - A wind farm in northeastern Brazil sounds like a welcome climate-friendly energy solution, but it is causing controversy over another kind of environmental worry: the impact on the endangered Lear's macaw.
But the project soon came under attack when it emerged that the enormous turbines, with their 120-meter diameter blades -- a known threat to birds in flight -- were being built in a nesting region for the Lear's macaw, a bright blue parrot also known as the indigo macaw, or by its scientific name Anodorhynchus leari.
A federal court halted the final stage of construction on the turbines in April, revoking Voltalia's permits. Silveira has announced plans to install up to 30 gigawatts of clean energy production capacity in the northeast, mainly wind and solar.But Voltalia offers a case study of the kind of opposition projects can run into on the ground.
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