I would agree that a review of such projects is very desirable. The problem is that some opponents of wind turbine projects in western Maryland (and other places, I suspect) are so vocal and single-minded about being "anti" rather than consensus-building that the tendency is for the lawmakers to bypass the review process. It seems very reasonable to shutdown the turbines for a couple of weeks at night during migration and other mitigating actions. 

One thing that gets lost seems to be that the turbines kill something like 3 birds out of 100,000 versus something like 20,000 kills by feral cats (my numbers are from memory and may be wildly in error but the orders of magnitude are approximately correct, I think).

Best,

Joe McDaniel
Grantsville, Md (near the proposed site in Garrett County, MD)