CFACT Report: Feds fail to “offset” wind turbine eagle kills
America's bald and golden eagles are at risk as Fish and Wildlife Service underestimates required turbine kill "offsets" by a factor as high as 241.
CFACT tells the Feds to reform the Endangered Species Act
For far too long, Green campaigners have shamelessly used the ESA to deprive property owners of the freedom to responsibly use their land.
Reform the Endangered Species Act!
The Endangered Species Act today serves the anti-capitalist gadflies of the Left far better than it protects wildlife. Read CFACT's official submission.
Eliminate the harm misdefining “harm” does via the ESA
The agencies’ interpretation and application has nearly deformed the term "harm" into an arbitrarily wielded national land use veto.
Seventeen states misguidedly sue to block Trump from stopping wind power
The States have not properly considered where this action might lead. In fact they have probably asked the Court for the wrong thing.
Wind power’s eagle-kill permits are a deadly failure, so permitting must stop
About 15 years ago the US Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) determined that the golden eagle population could not withstand an increase in human caused mortality.
Secretary Burgum: If offshore wind is wrong for New York, it is also wrong for Virginia!
The Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind (CVOW) project, which is being built by Dominion Energy off the coast of Virginia Beach, Virginia, is the largest boondoggle project of all, and it is subject to all of the same concerns about offshore wind.
Wind power is buying eagle-kill indulgences
The offset is called "compensatory mitigation" which means the wind power facility pays the FWS or their agents to have their eagle killing offset by helping others live someplace else.
Two new studies imply the Golden Eagle cannot survive more wind turbines
Two new studies together imply that the golden eagle wind-kill taking is at the limit or beyond.
Craig Rucker joins Texas student wild boar cull
Texas is estimated to have around 2.6 million destructive feral hogs, which is nearly half of the U.S. population of the species.
The Feds are hiding the eagle death data
The FWS eagle kill data is all a big government secret designed to protect the wind industry from public outrage.
Time to save the “Wild West” from wind
Gabriella spoke to members of the Albany County Conservancy, a local conservation group, about the economic and environmental threats that 20+ proposed projects pose to southern Wyoming, and in particular on golden eagles.
An ill wind blows toward offshore turbines
The Trump White House says that the federal government’s leasing and permitting of onshore and offshore wind projects could lead to “great harm,” with negative impacts on navigational safety, transportation, national security, commercial interests and marine mammals.
Deficiencies in Dominion’s offshore wind permits
"In light of various alleged legal deficiencies underlying the federal government’s leasing and permitting of onshore and offshore wind projects, the consequences of which may lead to grave harm..." is the conclusion that guided President Trump's Executive Order suspending wind project permitting.
MEDIA ADVISORY: Offshore wind projects imperiled by Trump’s executive orders
Offshore wind industry should be more worried that even projects started during the Biden administration could be canceled