Talk:Altamont Pass wind farm

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Ownership

Who owns the farm? --evrik ^(talk) 15:56, 29 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

What are some specs on the turbines and towers, eg, height and diameter? lgroner 4 August 2010--Lou (talk) 16:58, 4 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Geography

The Altamont pass wind farm is in Northern California, so it's not obvious why declines in eagle populations in Southern California are relevant to this article. Is this a typo, or can someone make the connection clear?

Bias

Could this article be any more biased? It seems like someone from the Audobon society themselves wrote it. It's supposed to be about the wind farm, yet more than half of the article deals with golden eagles being killed by them. I'm just saying, this is a bit too biased for my tastes. I have to add the tag, but only because of the second half of the article.

I believe that the information about birds-of-prey being killed by wind turbines should be moved to a page specifically about either the negative impacts of turbines or in a section on the page for wind turbines. The opening of the article is fine because it is factually correct and is free of opinions.

71.83.137.23 (talk) 22:11, 9 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I wholly disagree. The Altamont wind farm has long been famous for its high number of raptor deaths. It has become the poster child of the problems of old-style turbines with killing large birds. No article on Altamont would be complete without covering it. That the paragraphs on the bird problem take up more than half the article is not the fault of the bird-death coverage: in fact, the article would be an inconsequential little stub without it. There is no good reason to banish the bad news side of this subject to a separate article. You are of course welcome to add properly referenced analyses contrary to those of the Audobon Society, and to improve any biased wording, but the factual content should stay. Plazak (talk) 01:13, 10 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I'll disagree as well. This farm is notorious for killing golden eagles, roughly 70 per year. This is really large compared to the other wind farms. Though I support wind power, the number of deaths of golden eagles has to be kept to a manageable level. --66.41.154.0 (talk) 04:02, 14 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Really outdated information on bird kills, turbine numbers, etc.; needs updating

A lot of the information in this article is over a decade old and is very outdated. For example, very few of those small, high-mortality turbines are operating anymore. Huge swaths of Altamont Pass have been "repowered" with >2 MW turbines since then. This entire article needs to be rewritten with new data, in order to give the correct qualitative and quantitative information about the site. 96.90.215.179 (talk) 02:03, 24 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]