Opponents of Idaho landfill cite danger of bird/plane collisions
Birds flying back to Boise, Idaho, from a day of feasting at a proposed landfill in Ada County would probably fly right through the airspace over Boise Airport, according to the Idaho Statesman. Experts with the U.S. Department of Agriculture and Idaho Air National Guard brought the issue up at a second hearing by the Ada County Commission on the landfill, saying that putting more birds in the flight path of planes at the airport increases the chances of costly and dangerous bird/plane collisions. An attorney for Allied Waste, the company that wants to build the landfill, told the commission they shouldn’t consider the airport issue because the airport is not in the county’s authority.
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