Wind farms kill eagles

[Lee Borgersen]

             Wind farms may be killing protected eagles.

Some consider it the one of the Sophie's Choices of environmentalism: birds or green energy. Of the nearly 600,000 birds that are killed by the massive wind farm turbines each year, almost 15 percent of them — 83,000 — are believed to be hawks, falcons and eagles. It's a felony to kill eagles in the U.S., and while the White House has sued oil and power companies when protected birds have inadvertently been killed in their waste or power lines, wind-energy companies have never been fined or prosecuted. Efforts are being made to make turbines safer for birds and bats, but some are asking if the cost of wind farms is too high.

  more here.......
http://now.msn.com/wind-farms-kill-protected-eagles-government-doesnt-sue

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[Stnmtz]

            Wind farms may be killing protected eagles.

It's a felony to kill eagles in the U.S., and while the White House has sued oil and power companies when protected birds have inadvertently been killed in their waste or power lines, wind-energy companies have never been fined or prosecuted.

I have a hard time believing that they have "never" been fined.  I work for a Utility company and know for a fact that we have been fined before because of insufficient avian protection. 

[kenhuntin]

The government is picking winners and losers. Any thing so subsidized and labeled green gets a free pass.  The liberals like Franken and Klobachar that push this crap down the throats of tax payers are the real threats to the environment here and want dirty air and water. over a half a million raptors and other birds are killed annually by wind and the Obama administration has yet to fine a single case. If a bird dies and falls into an oil pit or hits a power line the fines to oil and coal are never waived. A songbird brings about $7000.00 to build more windmills.

[The General]

+1 for what Ken said.


I really enjoy seeing the eagles around and understand their Patriotic significance.  With that being said 5 years ago I didn't hardly see an Eagle and now I see them everywhere around here.  No one can hunt them so maybe this is just a way of thinning the population or maybe the population needs to be thinned I don't know????