Posted on 05/14/2013 8:07:47 AM PDT by Rio
It happens about once a month here, on the barren foothills of one of America's green-energy boomtowns: A soaring golden eagle slams into a wind farm's spinning turbine and falls, mangled and lifeless, to the ground.
Killing these iconic birds is not just an irreplaceable loss for a vulnerable species. It's also a federal crime, a charge that the Obama administration has used to prosecute oil companies when birds drown in their waste pits, and power companies when birds are electrocuted by their power lines.
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Well after the leftists kill all the eagles...they can make the vulture the national bird...better symbol for Marxism anyway. /sarc
Sad :-(
Gott'a move back from the fire a bit, though ....
The Liberals don’t care about American nationalism, patriotism, or symbolism for either. The death of a few endangered species is symbolic to them: the death of America by a slow-turning blade.
Criminal government does what criminal government does.
Sooooo, if the deaths of the eagles is legal, can the feathers and claws be legally sold?
I’m given to understand that certain groups use them in their religious ceremonies, but are having difficulty obtaining legal eagle parts...
Windmills are a sacrament of the left. The leftists must make them work at all costs, no matter what the collateral damage.
“Can we have some more beans, Mr. Taggart?”
“I think you boys have had enough!”
A feathered PING!
Birds get electrocuted by power lines? What?
This would all be so much more ethical if the govt created a jobs program to hire people to harvest the shredded poultry downstream to feed to victims of the Obama Depression.
really, they shoudl take eagles off the endangered lsit and create an open season for them sicne our govenrment thinks it’s ok to indiscriminatly kill them- I’m just itchign for osme eagle soup and a spotted owl omlette
[[and power companies when birds are electrocuted by their power lines.]]
The electric companies hsould send out crews to take down lal the power lines leading into washington since washinton feels they have the right to fine them for providing a necessary utility-
I found a great horned owl under a power line on my property with burns on it's beak and feet, still warm. Took it to the local raptor rescue group to use for grafts. I was told that if I went back to were I found it I would find a snake also electrocuted. Seems they catch a snake and fly up to the line to eat it and it dangles down to the other wire and completes the circuit. I checked and they were right.
“... but are having difficulty obtaining legal eagle parts...”
Not difficult to understand. Getting “legal eagle parts” could be difficult, given that the ‘legal eagle’ is familiar with the courts and litigation.
The one thing a legal eagle values most is having all its parts, intact and attached.
reminds me of a joke
Man caught a loon, threw it on the barbeque, was abotu to eat it, when a game warden came along and said “Man, those are endangered animals, you aren’t allowed to eat them’
The man say “But we’ve had to eat them sicne dear leader stole all our money”
officer “Well, I’ll let it slip this time, but pelase tell me, what does loon taste like?”
Man “It’s not bad, but not nearly as good as godlen eagle”
Chinese wind turbines killing the American Eagle....
Oddly symbolic...
I think I'd have to see that for myself to believe it. Sorry. Those wires are kept several feet apart. That's a long snake for a bird to haul up and dangle down (5+ feet I would imagine).
I'm not saying it's impossible. But for it to be so common that the power company had an explanation? I'm trying to buy it. :o)
This is an old rural line back to a residence. I don’t think the wires are more than two feet apart.
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