Posted on 05/28/2013 4:27:19 PM PDT by neverdem
Diced eagle, diversion of crops to ethanol production, slow-walking of nuclear projects…
Last week the Associated Press ran an astonishing story about how America’s windmills have been killing thousands of rare birds, including golden eagles, while getting a free pass from the Obama administration. Here’s the way it appeared in the Washington Post:
The Obama administration has never fined or prosecuted a wind farm for killing eagles and other protected bird species, shielding the industry from liability and helping keep the scope of the deaths secret, an Associated Press investigation has found. More than 573,000 birds are killed by the country’s wind farms each year, including 83,000 hunting birds such as hawks, falcons and eagles, according to an estimate published in March in the peer-reviewed Wildlife Society Bulletin.
A pretty damning indictment, no? Particularly when the President pronounced in his original Inaugural Address in 2008 that “We will harness the sun and the winds and the soil to fuel our cars and run our factories” instead of using old fashioned fossil fuels like coal, oil and gas. Now here’s something even more astonishing...
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How did the mainstream press manage to ignore this story for four years? And did its final emergence have something to do with the discovery that the administration had been reading the AP’s phone records? You’ll have to answer that yourself. But as long as the press has decided to take a critical look at President Obama’s energy agenda, here are a couple of other stories waiting to be told...
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All these stories are waiting to be told. Now that that the AP and other major outlets have decided to take an open-eyed view of the Obama administration’s energy adventures, they could finally make the mainstream press. Coming to a newspaper near you.
(Excerpt) Read more at spectator.org ...
I’m dubious.
The media may no longer be madly in love with Baraq but they still fervently hate conservatives.
.. and America.
The media is just upset Obama was caught employing thier agenda.
0bama and Holder monitoring their phone calls and E-mails didn’t help.
We need a fund to reward and defend Whistleblowers.
What does it matter how the birds died? (just in case: sarc)
Eagle salad sandwiches anyone?
The aborted Eagles are for the good of the public/s
If a lefty champions it the cure is always worse than the problem......The law of un-intended consequences follows closely on the heels of the left wing radical nut jobs!
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