Green groups have demanded stricter rules to cover the impact of renewables on native wildlife after a big developer revealed one of its wind farms had killed 20 wedge-tailed eagles in the past 18 months.
Tilt Renewables, the owner of the 66-turbine Rye Park wind farm near Yass, in southern NSW near Canberra, told a meeting of a community groups on Tuesday it was looking at new mitigation measures after the project led to a higher than expected number of bird deaths.
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