Species

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.

By David Wojick |2025-05-05T22:39:32-04:00May 5th, 2025|Comments Off

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.

By Craig Rucker |2025-04-22T12:13:33-04:00April 22nd, 2025|Comments Off

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.

By David Wojick |2025-04-22T11:18:45-04:00April 21st, 2025|Comments Off

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.

By David Wojick |2025-04-13T22:45:56-04:00April 15th, 2025|Comments Off

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.

By Nate Myers |2025-04-08T21:51:37-04:00April 8th, 2025|Comments Off

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.

By David Wojick |2025-04-01T22:22:35-04:00April 2nd, 2025|Comments Off

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.

By Craig Rucker |2025-03-15T03:24:30-04:00March 12th, 2025|Comments Off

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.

By Bonner Cohen, Ph. D. |2025-02-03T09:55:45-05:00February 4th, 2025|Comments Off

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.

By David Wojick |2025-02-02T10:59:18-05:00February 3rd, 2025|Comments Off

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

By CFACT |2025-01-30T20:21:33-05:00January 30th, 2025|Comments Off

EO: Temporary Withdrawal of All Areas on the Outer Continental Shelf from Offshore Wind

President Trump took action to halt offshore wind turbine permitting and construction for review. A victory for nature, whales, fishermen, the power grid and ratepayers. Read the full Executive Order....

By CFACT |2025-01-21T10:35:33-05:00January 21st, 2025|Comments Off

NOAA’s “no evidence” that wind kills whales violates the Information Quality Act

It is actually illegal for Federal agencies to make false claims like this.

By David Wojick |2025-01-11T23:29:05-05:00January 13th, 2025|Comments Off

My 41 wind-threatens-whales articles track federal deception

Many of these 41 CFACT articles were sent to key NOAA whale protection people when published over a period of 2.5 years.

By David Wojick |2024-12-26T07:30:09-05:00December 30th, 2024|Comments Off

Alaska court: Climate change can’t justify giant habitat for seals

Biden administration officials attempted to use the ESA to shut down fossil-fuel development and other commercial activity.

By Bonner Cohen, Ph. D. |2024-10-30T12:21:42-04:00November 1st, 2024|Comments Off

Solar plan clashes with endangered sage grouse habitat

The Western Solar Plan, spearheaded by the Interior Department’s Bureau of Land Management, would expand industrial-scale solar power development on 31 million acres of federal land in 11 Western states.

By Bonner Cohen, Ph. D. |2024-10-14T12:38:15-04:00October 16th, 2024|Comments Off