Posted on 07/03/2014 7:42:14 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
“Preferred energy policy favoring wind produces double standards. Think of the rancor if oil and gas companies were allowed such a government dispensation,” said Mr. Sandoval. “Thirty years represents not only the theoretical life cycle of the turbines themselves, but an eternity in public policy. No other industry is allowed ‘takings’ permits that last an entire generation.”
But it's more than that:
"We know we need renewables, and that’s fine. We’re not saying shut them down, we’re just saying, ‘Hey, enough’s enough, bring them into the same ballpark that everyone else is in,’” said Mr. Johns. “Give them regulations, tell them where they need to site these things, where they shouldn’t site them. Don’t give them a set of, ‘Gee, it would be nice if you did this, but if you don’t, it’s OK.’”
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Among those stunned by the agency’s move were residents of King Cove, Alaska. Interior Secretary Sally Jewell ruled in December that those in the remote fishing village could not build an 11-mile gravel road to a nearby airport because it would affect eelgrass that serves as a way-stop meal for migratory birds.
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If he’s wearing a hoodie?
It’s legal when they have broken into your house and are threatening you.
One billion birds die annually from building strikes.
When nobody in looking?
Maybe. That number is a guess as well.
When you’re only wounded and they’ve started pecking at you...
OBAMA GIVES PERMISSION TO KILL AMERICAN EAGLES
that just screams headline for Drudge...
anyone have an inside track to him?
It’s illegal to own even an eagle feather, so while the windmill may grind these birds up, it wouldn’t surprise me if federal SWAT teams raided the farms of those whose land the feathers fell on.
yes but the point is that birds hit big things in the dark that they didn’t expect to be there. It’s nothing special about windmills, it’s just that they are big things. Radio towers, powerline support stuctures are just the same. This is a bullshit issue. Plenty of things to question about wind power, but this one is bullshit.
This the problem with the left. They do not understand that something that is legal is not necessarily moral. To my way of thinking it is immoral regrdless of whether or not it is legal.
I believe certain American Indian tribes have been allowed to kill them for ceremonial purposes and for the feathers.
When the recipe calls for Spotted Owl and you simply cannot find one.
When the killer donates to the DNC.
The bald eagle is a symbol of American greatness.
Wind turbines are the sacrament of the religion of envirowacko.
Now you know why our fearless leader allows windmills to chop bald eagles to bits.
When it eats your pistachios?
Corrected
Whenever mac daddy gets tired of eating dog and now wants to try Eagle.
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