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.
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.
Wyoming wind woes with Albany County Conservancy’s Anne Brande
Hear about 20+ proposed onshore wind projects planned in Wyoming from Albany County Conservancy's Anne Brande.
California sacrifices bald and golden eagles for “Green” energy
The law authorizes the "take" of fully protected species.
Bald eagles win one against wind farms and the feds
During the last five years, America’s wind turbines killed more than three times as many birds as the BP oil spill.
Oregon FWS eagle mortality study
Resource: Oregon FWS eagle mortality study
Shady circumstances cloud huge solar energy plant bailout
The giant Ivanpah solar array in California was financed with a $1.6 billion construction loan from the U.S. Treasury, but the plant has been so unproductive that its owners have successfully begged for loan repayment delays and now want a $539 million federal grant so they can make their first -- already late -- three payments on the initial loan. But prospects for long-term viability of Ivanpah remain poor, given that the plant's poor performance and the fact that it is killing birds at an alarming rate. As Reason's Julian Morris, says, “They’re already paying less than the market rate. Now demanding or asking for a subsidy in the form of a grant directly paying off the loan is an egregious abuse.”
Unprincipled lack of precaution on wind turbines
The problem with regard to consistency get larger as we come to realize that whatever they support is permitted; whatever they oppose violates the Precautionary Principle. They support windmills; therefore there is no violation. They oppose fracking; therefore it violates the principle.... In the view of activists and regulators, regulations exist to delay, block or destroy things they oppose. The fact that regulatory actions may well cause prolonged energy deprivation, poverty, unemployment, disease, malnutrition or premature death is irrelevant to them.
The eagles die at Altamont!
Bob Johns, spokesman for the American Bird Conservancy ... confirmed ...[that] the Altamont operation alone has killed more than 2,000 golden eagles. But that’s not all. “Nationwide, the wind industry kills thousands of golden eagles without prosecution,” Johns said, “while any other American citizen even possessing eagle parts such as feathers would face huge fines and prison time.”