The article you posted says 400,000 birds killed annually by the windmills. Compared to these 28 birds, I’d say the windmill industry is a bird-killing holocaust.
Welcome to crony capitalism: You either play ball with Zer0, or you don’t play.
Death is to be expected in service to the “Green Agenda”. Only the watermelons are imune.
The eco-fascists love this kind of pandering to them
Of course Obama will direct his stooges to prosecute oil companies for this. Obama is desperate to stir up his greenie base and get them to the polls in November 2012
Electrical distribution systems now must install $1500 ‘Raptor Shields’ so large birds don’t fry themselves by touching 2 conductors on the wires. Go figure.
As long as the Left is killing innocent birds and babies with good intentions it’s all good!
I just mentioned in another thread the Regime is going to go all-out to stop the development of the ND oilfields...just as soon as maximum $$$ is spent on the development phase, but before any $$$ can be made on production. This story is about birds, the other is about EPA complaints going against the developers.
This is but another arrow in the Obama quiver to destroy ND’s oil industry.
I’ve been doing my dove hunting all wrong..400,000? I need to get me some turbines!
Can’t the oil companies sue the gub’mint for unfair prosecution or something like that?
It would be interesting if the oil company brought an “equal protection” lawsuit against the administration for not having an even-handed stance with the wind-power people.
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“The lunacy continues”, is right:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2786741/posts?page=15#15
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If those windmills were killing polar bears THEN they’d be in trouble!!
Actually, they probably wouldn’t. The libs would come up with some ‘thinning the herd’ or ‘survival of the fittest’ argument. Of course it wouldn’t apply to ‘warming.’
How about all the birds killed when they fly into jet engines? Are the airline CEOs arrested and fined? What about the birds that fly into glass windows? Used to happen where I lived. Please don’t report me to #AttackWatch!
I’ll bet the number killed by turbines pales against the number killed by transmission lines. Flocks that migrate at night plow into them. I’ve found Great Horned Owls, Virginia Rails, Canada Geese and lots of sundry songbirds under a single two hundred yard stretch of lines.
I do my best to kill more than 28 migratory waterfowl every year.
Tell me! I worked in the Texas oil field, I was there when we had to start “netting” open holding tanks to keep waterfowl from diving in. Really, I liked that rule. I remember one company in opposition put out a photo of a dead gull with talons caught in a net! Politics and the actuarial risk math do not mix well.
We have in Texas more windmills than anywhere. I can drive from here to Oklahoma and never be out of sight of one. As soon as the industry can live without the two cent/KWH subsidy, I’m all for it.
“bird-brained” is applicable. The modern three blade turbine fan (150’ radius) turns slowly, about 3 RPM, the blades “feather” to adjust to windspeed. Little birds, not so much. The dead birds we see are “gliders”; the larger species: Buzzards, hawks, gulls, and migratory birds.
I will say this: No one knows “exactly” how many birds turbins kill. California pays people nearly 50K a year to tour towers and count dead birds, and that gives them a good guess. For sure, the fans kill birds; more fans, more dead birds. Classic risk/return decision.
You can be charged for “taking” an animal, and the definition of “taking” includes “disturbing” the animal. Now days to build a project you have to have a permit from the wildlife people licensing you to “take” so many animals each year, and you have to investigate and document each case.
We’re bankrupt. If we can’t de-fund these agencies, split them up and return them to the states, we’re not trying.
Any candidate for office who doesn’t yet understand the need to eliminate entire agencies isn’t fit for office. These agencies see themselves as kings. We overthrew kings two centuries ago and now we are reinstating them.
“I don’t know exactly how many birds wind turbines kill...”
I keep hearing that but no one has EVER posted a picture. We keep seeing pix of oil-covered birds; I wanna *see* some of that Colorado golden eagle shredded tweet!