Lynn Clough retweetledi

The @NYSDEC has allowed Boralex (Canadian company) and ORES to leave out of its environmental (what isn’t redacted) reports that Fort Edward Solar will border one of the most important migratory corridors, the Hudson River, in the Northeast.
Do you know what 500 acres of solar panels look like to birds of prey from above?
This phenomen has been documented. It’s called the lake effect. Large solar arrays reflect horizontal polarized light, which is the main visual cue animals and birds, like ospreys, use to identify water.
The bird will then dive down into the panels below them, colliding with the panels and most often, dying.
Dragonflies, mayflies, and other aquatic insects (that the DEC used to pretend to care about protecting) have been documented mistaking the panels for water as well.
By siting Fort Edward Solar next to the Hudson River, where many mated pairs of osprey live, the location of this complex threatens their lives - and so many waterfowl species that rely on the Hudson River to live, survive, and travel.
I documented this osprey a few days ago. They are incredible-looking birds. They deserve the freedom to migrate, hunt, and raise their babies without mistaking an ecological detention center as a body of water.



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