Wind Energy & Renewables

Wind power is becoming an integral part of the nation’s and New Mexico’s renewable-energy future. Compared to traditional energy sources, wind power, along with other renewable-energy sources and energy conservation, provides significant environmental benefits for birds, wildlife, and their habitats. The Audubon Society supports wind-power development provided that it is sited, designed, constructed, and operated to responsibly minimize harmful impacts on the environment. In particular, we believe that siting of wind-power development in New Mexico should contain appropriate stipulations regarding wildlife and avian resources inventory, mitigation, and monitoring, including the cumulative effects of expanded development in both space and time.

New Mexico Wind Power Policy
The New Mexico Audubon Council

SunZia Transmission Line Update: Potential Impacts to Bosque del Apache
September 2009

Audubon New Mexico Fall 2009 Newsletter with article about the SunZia Transmission Proposal Fall 2009

SunZia Transmission recent study area map September 2009

BLM SunZia public comment meetings information newsletter October 2009

Wind Power Sitings, Incentives, and Wildlife Guidelines in the United States
Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies, 2007

Audubon’s Position on Wind Power