Access is by Shell Canada Ltd. roads across private land. Shell Canada ordered CleareNET to refrain from using the roads until written permission had been obtained from the relevant landowners and lesees. The tower has been erected illegally. Obviously ClearNET is not sensitive to legality. ClearNET claimed to be unaware of any risk to birds.
Canadian regulations exclude environmental assessment of impact of most towers.
Local land use authorities are ill-informed and can take no responsibility for nationwide impacts. However Environment Minister David Anderson has taken an interest in the problem. We are very much interested in cooperating with any interested individuals. There is a TV tower north of Toronto that has had huge problem in the past, but has not been monitored recently. In 1999 FLAP has ducumented 2200 collisions, mostly in downtown Toronto.