Posted on 04/14/2022 7:48:39 AM PDT by SJackson
Welcome to Your Green Dystopia. The wind turbines at ESI Energy killed 150 eagles in the last ten years and last week the company was fined $8 million dollars “or $53,300 per carcass”. Which sounds someone cares about these birds. But don’t think the The Fisheries and Wildlife Service (FWS) are outraged at the deaths of eagles. The real problem was not the slaughter, but that ESI didn’t fill out the paperwork first. If they had only got their permits to kill, it would have been fine.
The new FWS permitted “take” limits of bald eagles has just been increased to 15,800 a year.
Do Eagles Lives Matter? It depends on who kills them.
As Gregory Whitestone says: The government is funding this knowing the birds are dying in the name of Clean Energy
The DOJ press release further stated: “ESI and its affiliates received hundreds of millions of dollars in federal tax credits for generating electricity from wind power at facilities that it operated, knowing that multiple eagles would be killed and wounded without legal authorization.”
The legalized slaughter of eagles and other large birds of prey was legitimized under the Obama administration and continues today. At the time, it was estimated that nearly 600,000 birds of all types were killed by the much smaller wind footprint at that time, including 83,000 hunting birds such as hawks, falcons and eagles.
Unknown to most citizens is the fact that the FWS has established a “take limit” for wind energy companies to kill bald eagles. This would be similar to a bag limit for a hunter. However, hunters dare not as they are not of the protected class and would be subject to a maximum fine of $250,000 or two years of imprisonment for a felony conviction. FWS regularly imposes fines on oil companies and electric transmission firms for inadvertent deaths of bald eagles, all the while giving its seal of approval to green-induced eagle carnage of a grand scale from turbines.
The FWS bald eagle take limits were revised February 2022 to allow a more than four-fold increase in the legalized slaughter.
Gregory Wrightstone who is a geologist and author of the bestselling book, Inconvenient Facts: The Science that Al Gore Doesn’t Want You to Know.
File this story away next time you meet someone who thinks wind farms are good for the environment. Also handy for children in schools where they need to explain the pros and cons of renewables.
h/t ClimateDepot
*I politely omitted that bit of “woke”
;D
[why don’t Celtic clans count? God knows we’re tribal AF]
Since everyone doesn’t get the same treatment for killing an endangered species, how is this justified? How about a possible example....a man kills an eagle for the feathers & most likely gets a heavy fine & a jail sentence. A company owning wind towers may kill several & pay some fines(added to the cost of electricity no doubt) & then years later, the wind tower is trash, plus many yards of concrete. The company may be history by then, so then the public absorbs the costs. Does this sound like justice?
Since everyone doesn’t get the same treatment for killing an endangered species, how is this justified? How about a possible example....a man kills an eagle for the feathers & most likely gets a heavy fine & a jail sentence. A company owning wind towers may kill several & pay some fines(added to the cost of electricity no doubt) & then years later, the wind tower is trash, plus many yards of concrete. The company may be history by then, so then the public absorbs the costs. Does this sound like justice?
You do know that based on their egg laying, they are a parasitic bird don't you?
Sorry, but if they are caught in my yard then they won't make it to yours........along with the grackles, starlings, house sparrows and blue jays.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-Ih_-7ovL8&t=5s
Here's why I hate the blue jays:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HV9Kx9Gz3E4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8EqJLQdo7g
I might add that four years ago a Blue Jay killed the last chickadee fledgling in the nesting box they were raised in.
Then two and three years ago, they arrived on the same day, May 2 and last year they arrived on May the 4th. Must have gotten stuck in traffic along their migratory route......LOL!
Audubon has a fun app you can download on your smart phone. On it you can track the migratory birds and when and where they are being spotted.
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