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	Altamont Pass, California - Encyclopedia of Earth
		Altamont Pass (37°44’13” North, 121°39’07” West), a mountainous pass in Northern California, is home to one of the oldest wind farms in the U.S. and the largest concentration of wind turbines in the world.
		Altamont Pass is located one hour east of San Francisco, California and serves as a temperature buffer for the city by separating it from the heat of the San Joaquin Valley.
		Altamont Pass wind farm construction began in 1981 in response to favorable federal and state legislation that resulted from the energy price increases of the 1970s.
	www.eoearth.org /article/Altamont_Pass,_California (1203 words)

	Altamont Pass - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Altamont Pass is a mountain pass in Northern California, United States, located between Livermore in the Livermore Valley and Tracy in the San Joaquin Valley.
		The pass is similar in height to Pacheco Pass to the south.
		The pass is known for its wind farm, one of the earliest in the United States.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Altamont_Pass (349 words)

	Altamont Raceway Park - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Altamont Raceway Park is a speedway in Northern California, between Tracy and Livermore.
		The Altamont concert is often contrasted to the Woodstock festival that took place earlier in 1969, and is sometimes said to mark the end of the innocence embodied by Woodstock, or the de facto end of the 1960s.
		Unlike Altamont, Woodstock's security had been provided by members of the hippie commune, the Hog Farm, led by Wavy Gravy, and it has been argued that fellow hippies would have been better able to deal with some of the security issues at Altamont because of their familiarity with LSD and "bad trips".
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Altamont (1294 words)

	Wired News: Unexpected Downside of Wind Power
		Though the Altamont Pass is known for its strong winds, it also lies on an important bird-migration route, and its grass-covered hills provide food for several types of raptors.
		The dispute at Altamont Pass marks the highest-profile confrontation yet in an unlikely clash between wind-power proponents and environmental activists opposed to noncritical wind-farm development.
		Steve Stengel, a spokesman for FPL Energy, one of several power companies that collectively operate the Altamont windmills, said the goal is to reduce avian collisions by 35 percent in three years, and to determine which turbines are the most dangerous.
	www.wired.com /news/planet/0,2782,69177,00.html?tw=wn_story_page_prev2 (675 words)

	echoes.com : Remember A Day : Altamont
		The culmination of the Stones' tour was the free concert at Altamont Speedway, which was one of the largest rock disasters ever.
		Altamont is regarded as the warning of what might happen if Woodstock is taken too literally.
		Altamont was the product of diabolical egotism, hype, ineptitude, money manipulation, and, at base, a fundamental lack of concern for humanity.
	www.echoes.com /rememberaday/altamont.html (1172 words)

	Golden Eagle Eco-Atrocity At Altamont Pass (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Alameda County -- where Altamont Pass is -- has one of the densest populations of golden eagles in the world.
		Altamont Pass is not an appropriate place for wind turbines.
		Altamont Pass is the major pass in the Diablo Range, and ground-squirrel colonies are the equivalent of prairie-dog colonies!
	sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/gate/a/2003/09/08/urbananimal.DTL (1428 words)

	Center for Biological Diversity - Altamont Wind Farm (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		However, some wind power facilities, such as the Altamont Pass Wind Resource Area (APWRA) in eastern Alameda and Contra Costa Counties, California, are causing severe environmental impacts to raptor populations due to bird kills from collisions with turbines and electrocution on power lines.
		Altamont Pass is the most lethal wind farm in North America for raptors
		Wind turbines at the Altamont Pass Wind Resource Area (APWRA) kill more birds of prey than any other wind facility in North America, due to their location on a major bird migratory route in an area with high concentrations of raptors, including the highest density of breeding golden eagles in the world.
	www.biologicaldiversity.org /swcbd/programs/bdes/altamont/altamont.html (1264 words)

	Altamont Motorsports Park: Ticket Sales
		Tickets, sold at the gate at Altamont Motorsports Park, can be purchased by cash or credit card.
		Altamont Promotional Passes: Promotional passes, including "2for1" passes, can be used at NASCAR Whelen All-American Weekly Racing events only, unless otherwise specified on the face of the printed pass.
		Altamont Executive Passes: AMP Executive Passes, good for any event, must be signed by the AMP CEO or President/General Manager.
	www.altamontracing.com /tickets.html (199 words)

	Boston.com / News / Nation / Bird deaths trigger debate
		ALTAMONT PASS, Calif. -- When the giant Altamont wind farm sprouted here two decades ago, the only major objections were aesthetic.
		The open country surrounding Altamont Pass is believed to contain one of the largest populations of breeding pairs of golden eagles in the world.
		The Altamont debate began when the 20 permits held by the companies began to expire this year and the companies were required to go before a local zoning board for renewal.
	www.boston.com /news/nation/articles/2003/12/29/bird_deaths_trigger_debate?mode=PF (1004 words)

	Defenders of Wildlife - Renewable Energy WIND ENERGY RESOURCES (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		At Altamont Pass, bird mortality is higher at end turbines (Orloff and Flannery 1992), but is just as high within strings (rows) where there are gaps of 35m or more between two of the turbines in the row (Thelander and Rugge 2001).
		At Altamont Pass, raptor deaths are associated with faster "tip speed" and at turbines that are in operation for a greater percent of time (Orloff and Flannery 1996).
		Cattle grazing in the Altamont Pass area has probably encouraged high populations of pocket gophers and ground squirrels, resulting in a large prey base that is likely attractive to red-tailed hawks and golden eagles (Smallwood et al.
	www.defenders.org /habitat/renew/wind.html (2926 words)

	Bird killings at Altamont Pass / Environmental group files suit against wind turbine companies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Operators of giant wind turbines in Altamont Pass should be ordered to stop the routine, illegal killing of about 1,000 eagles, hawks and owls every year, an environmental group argues in a lawsuit filed Monday.
		The wind turbines were erected in the Altamont Pass starting in the early 1980s.
		Studies show that Altamont Pass has the worst bird-kill problem in the world among wind farms, because the turbines are located in a major migration route for birds of prey in North America that attracts among the highest concentration of golden eagles in the world.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2004/01/13/BAGF748U321.DTL (763 words)

	The NEW Independent Home : People and Houses that Harvest the Sun, Wind, and Water
		Altamont Pass was part of the first great wind rush, when wind energy was a very lucrative investment.
		Altamont may have one of the greatest concentrations of golden eagles in the United States.
		Today, in a calmer frame of mind, Altamont Pass would be one of the last places we'd think of putting turbines, after we had put wind turbines elsewhere, and had figured out how to build wind turbines that worked and how to install and operate them without killing golden eagles.
	www.solarnet.org /IndHome/ch0308.htm (1623 words)

	Despite the energy crisis, Altamont wind farms are . . .FROZEN IN TIME [Free Republic]
		Until wind farm operators in the Altamont Pass can prove that the next generation of machines will be less lethal to eagles, hawks and owls, they aren't being allowed to build additional generating capacity.
		Those companies, Green Ridge Power LLC and and Altamont Power Co., are renegotiating the long-term contracts that govern the sale of their power to PG&E. The companies are also negotiating with landowners who lease their property in exchange for a cut of revenue from the wind farms.
		PG&E buys all the power produced by wind farms in the Altamont Pass under long-term contracts it was required to enter into by a 1978 federal act intended to promote the development of alternative energy sources.
	www.freerepublic.com /forum/a3af980af4dd8.htm (2488 words)

	Altamont Pass: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The Altamont Pass is a mountain pass[For more, click on this link] in Northern California Northern California quick summary:
		The altamont commuter express (also known as ace) is a commuter train service in california connecting stockton with san jose, californiasan jose....
		The pass is known for its wind farm wind farm quick summary:
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/A/Al/Altamont_Pass.htm (686 words)

	Altamont area - eLivermore.com
		The Altamont Concert, December 6, 1969 at the Altamont Speedway.
		The Altamont Concert was set up by the Rolling Stones as a free concert at the end of their very successful North American tour, attempting to be "Woodstock West".
		The Altamont Concert is often referred to as being "in Livermore." The Altamont speedway is in Alameda county (just barely), and the area has a Livermore address and zip code.
	www.elivermore.com /photos/Hist_lvr_altamont3.htm (1132 words)

	Enviro Group Sues Wind Farm to Stop Bird Deaths - by James M. Taylor - The Heartland Institute
		Giant wind turbines at Altamont Pass, California, are illegally killing more than 1,000 birds of prey each year, according to a lawsuit filed January 12 by the Center for Biological Diversity.
		Thousands of wind turbines were built in Northern California’s Altamont Pass region during the 1980s in response to activist groups’ call for greater reliance on renewable energy sources.
		Complicating matters, Altamont Pass is a major migration route for birds of prey in North America.
	www.heartland.org /Article.cfm?artId=14562 (1161 words)

	7/11/2005 -- California Bird Lovers Fight Killer Windmills at Altamont Pass
		The 5,000 windmills that dot the slopes of Northern California's Altamont Pass are drawing fire from environmental groups who say pollution-free power isn't worth the price of killing thousands of birds.
		The pass, about 50 miles east of San Francisco, is adjacent to the densest nesting ground for golden eagles and in the migratory path of red-tailed hawks.
		Altamont was one of the first wind farms in the U.S. and developers weren't aware of the problem, said Tom Gray, deputy executive director of the American Wind Energy Association.
	forests.org /articles/reader.asp?linkid=47985 (1103 words)

	ResponsibleWind.org: Wind Power Reality
		Reports by the wind power industry have noted that "the level of raptor mortality observed at Altamont Pass is quite unique," due to its location on a major bird migratory route in an area with high densities of raptors, including the largest concentration of golden eagles in the world.
		Experts estimate that each year, Altamont wind farms kill up to 60 or more golden eagles (recent research indicates eagle kills may be even higher), 300 red-tailed hawks, and 270 western burrowing owls as well as hundreds of additional raptors of other species.
		We are not suggesting closing the Altamont wind farms, rather that turbine owners take reasonable measures to reduce bird kills and adequately compensate for impacts to imperiled bird populations.
	www.responsiblewind.org /reality.php (5631 words)

	Golden Eagles at Altamont Pass
		Golden Gate Audubon is committed to reducing the levels of bird mortality at Altamont Pass to the greatest degree possible.
		In early 2004, Golden Gate Audubon joined the Center for Biological Diversity and CAlifornians for Renewable Energy in a formal appeal to the Alameda County Board of Supervisors challenging the renewal of permits for 18 of Altamont's 20 wind farms in Alameda County.
		We are also part of a working group of industry representatives, county staff, landowners, and other environmentalists seeking solutions to the unacceptable bird kill at Altamont Pass.
	www.goldengateaudubon.org /html/conservation/birdsatrisk/altamont.htm (597 words)

	PowerWorks, Pacific Winds, renewable wind power and solar power.
		In addition, the Altamont Pass wind projects reduce air emissions, as compared with a new gas-fired power plant, equivalent to 1.2 billion lbs of CO2 per year, thereby reducing the impacts of global warming and climate change.
		Further, the Altamont Pass wind projects would be equivalent to planting about 46,000,000 trees (equivalent to a forest of about 199,000 acres or 311 square miles) in the San Francisco Bay Area to mitigate air pollution from a new gas-fired power plant.
		However, the average of the range of estimated raptor mortality per wind turbine in Altamont Pass is about 6 times higher than other wind projects, apparently due to the unique climate, topography, and food sources (such as ground squirrels) that foster raptors.
	www.powerworksinc.com /environment.asp (1477 words)

	RenewableEnergyAccess.com \| Avian Issues Resurface at Altamont Wind Farm
		With as many as 7000 wind turbines turning at a time, Altamont pass, one of the oldest and largest wind farms in the world, also happens to be one of the most controversial.
		While a rare issue for modern wind farms, bird mortality at the 20 year-old Altamont pass has been a particularly visible and unfortunate subject, putting what many say is an unfair blemish on the wind power industry.
		While it appears that migratory patterns may factor into the equation at Altamont, the older lattice-style towers on some of the turbines, offering good perching areas for birds, are partly to blame according to industry sources.
	www.renewableenergyaccess.com /rea/news/story?id=10401 (1214 words)

	FPL Energy to continue aggressive actions to reduce avian collisions in the Altamont Pass Wind Resource Area; urges ...
		Other measures being proposed by the Altamont Pass Wind Resource Area turbine owners and operators, including FPL Energy, are in the short term, seasonal shutdown and additional removal or relocation of high risk turbines, and in the longer term, repowering.
		However, we cannot move forward with additional mitigation measures until all stakeholders are willing to strike a balance between the need to reduce raptor mortality in the Altamont, meeting the increasing energy needs of California and the economic viability of wind projects in the Altamont Pass Wind Resource Area,” Fennell said.
		FPL Energy and other turbine owners in the Altamont are working with Western EcoSystems Technology, Inc. (WEST Inc.) and the California Energy Commission staff to establish protocols and locations within the Altamont Pass Wind Resource Area to implement the plan.
	www.fplenergy.com /news/contents/05018.shtml (797 words)

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		Federal wildlife regulators began warning wind energy companies in the Altamont Pass as long ago as 1987 that they could be prosecuted for killing protected birds.
		The Center for Biological Diversity has submitted the documents as evidence that wind farm operators in the Altamont Pass were allowed to break the law for years without fear of prosecution.
		On June 22, after determining that “flaming birds” were the second leading cause of wildfires in the Altamont Pass, Alameda County imposed stricter electrical standards.
	www.insidebayarea.com /portlet/article/html/fragments/print_article.jsp?article=3174396 (1397 words)

	Wind Turbines License in Altamont Pass, California (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		for the turbines in Altamond Pass, in Northern
		By in large the windfarm at the Altamont Pass provides a safer enviroment then both coal and oil power plants which spew tons of soot and debris into the air on a daily bases.
		The fact of the matter is the Altamont Pass windfarm is the worlds largest and provides enought power to be utilized by over 800,000 homes in California.
	www.windpoweronline.com /cgi-bin/messageboard/100.shtml (457 words)

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		Wind turbines in Altamont Pass kill more birds of prey than any other wind facility in North America, due to their location on a major bird migratory route in an area with high concentrations of raptors, including the highest density of breeding golden eagles in the world.
		The Center strongly supports the development of alternative energy sources as a way to reduce our impact on the environment, including reducing greenhouse emissions and protecting wildlife habitat; however, the Altamont Pass turbines are severely impacting raptors due to bird kills from collisions with turbines and electrocution on power lines.
		Please contact the Board of Supervisors immediately and oppose the appointment of WEST as the scientific monitor for Altamont pass avian deaths and insist that bird kills at Altamont Pass are adequately monitored by a truly neutral party.
	actionnetwork.org /campaign/Altamont (384 words)

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