Federal Permits Will Allow Wind Farms To Kill More Bald Eagles

[Riddick]

New 30-year permits that will be issued next month by the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service (FWS) will quadruple the number of bald eagles that wind farms will collectively be allowed to kill per year and avoid prosecution under the 1940 Bald and Golden Eagle Protection Act.

“The Service’s emphasis on eagle incidental take permits for wind facilities reflects [Obama] Administration priorities for expanded wind energy development and a desire to minimize the impacts of that growth on eagles,” FWS noted. “It does not reflect a belief that wind development poses a disproportionate risk compared to other activities that may incidentally take eagles.”

“Only applicants who commit to adaptive management measures to ensure the preservation of eagles will be considered for permits with terms longer than five years,” according to FWS.

But Garry George, Audubon California’s director of renewable energy, pointed out that none of the new technologies used by the wind farm industry to lessen bird deaths “has been proven to work.”

The FWS “may be giving the industry certainty in a permit that allows them to kill eagles for 30 years, but they’re not giving us any certainty that it’s not going to send the population into a spiral,” George said.

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[Malaria_Kidd II]

Who's going to be watchin' them smack eagles and then pick them up for a count?

The USFWS gives them a by! Or is it a bye, bye eagles?

Not good!

Kermit the Frog sings his tune of lament "It's Not That Easy Being Green".

Palm Springs, California 2009



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[fos]

grrr. The high cost of wind powered energy is not worth killing raptors!

[Doka]

grrr. The high cost of wind powered energy is not worth killing raptors!

I totally agree, my area where I live has these worthless things every where, mostly broken down. It appears even the greenest turn into Eagle killers, for the huge government subsidies offered for the darn things, they just don't "pencil" out. Another "Tax Payer, Take it in the Shorts, Thing"

[Malaria_Kidd II]

100 years from now the Americans, and world wide citizens, will laugh at this wind folly. But knowing it WAS a killer of many species of birds, just like the the OLD solar panels fried them in flight, all will be shaking their collective heads while saying, "No, no, no! Never again!"

Nicola Tesla's dream* did eventually come true since each individual dwelling world wide is NOW pulling free juice out of the thin air!


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*The black ops side of the US government finally and very reluctantly released Tesla's papers stolen from his apartment in New York City.