Posted on 05/05/2016 3:25:02 AM PDT by SJackson
The Obama administration is revising a federal rule that allows wind-energy companies to operate high-speed turbines for up to 30 years, even if means killing or injuring thousands of federally protected bald and golden eagles.
Under the plan announced Wednesday, companies could kill or injure up to 4,200 bald eagles a year without penalty -- nearly four times the current limit. Golden eagles could only be killed if companies take steps to minimize the losses, for instance, by retrofitting power poles to reduce the risk of electrocution.
Fish and Wildlife Service Director Dan Ashe said the proposal will "provide a path forward" for maintaining eagle populations while also spurring development of a pollution-free energy source that's intended to ease global warming, a cornerstone of President Barack Obama's energy plan.
Ashe said the 162-page proposal would protect eagles and at the same time "help the country reduce its reliance on fossil fuels" such as coal and oil that contribute to global warming.
"There's a lot of good news in here," Ashe said in an interview, calling the plan "a great tool to work with to further conservation of two iconic species."
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Why should wind farms be allowed to kill 4,200 eagles when oil companies are prosecuted for killing a handful. Individuals or small companies for killing one. Let them pay the fines, it's a cost of business
But of course the eagles can die ... as long as they die “green-approved” deaths.
Like thousands being beat by wind turbine blades and turbulence!
Of hundreds fried by solar heat farms in the Mojave and CA high deserts each week.
Or thousands poisoned by the solar panel and high metal waste ponds in China and overseas ..
But Obola’s dictatorship WILL fine an oil company $150,000.00 per bird if THREE birds get trapped in oil. Get wetted by oil. Look at an oil pool.
I was banned from DU for bringing this up a few years ago. Libs really don’t like having their green BS revealed as BS.
Obola! I LOVE IT!!
Obola doesn’t give a damn about eagles because they represent America as its national emblem.
I hate that piece of crap.
Crow lives matter.
Is the number of killed crows restricted?
This is racist.
-PJ
Out with the eagle, in with the buffalo. Same principle as singing America the Beautiful after the National Anthem @ the Super Bowl. Erase martial influence from public expression.
Imagine the outcry from the MSM if 4,000 eagles a year were being killed by nuclear plants.
If Warren Buffet owned pipelines instead of oil transporting trains, Obama would have approved it years ago.
On the bright side, it’s good for coyotes and other predators. Especially heat farms that cook them. Actually know a biologist who has worked with wind farms who thinks over time birds will learn to detect the disruption in the air and recognize it as danger. Or not, just speculation.
As he death is hereby approved a as a benefit tothenational welfare
So, the wind farm boondoggles are allowed to drain billions from the taxpayers with some being doled out in kickbacks to the politicians, and untold numbers of emblems of the USA are butchered and strew across the countryside... A win-win for for the socialists!
Where is PETA? Oh, yeah, worrying about how farmers raise pigs.
In nature, more of each species is born than the food supply can support.
The animals that compete the best survive.
Windmills just introduce another way to die. At the end of the day there will still be the same number of surviving eagles. That number will be what the food chain can support.
A lot of sappy hand wringing over naught.
Make it an election issue-in 2018. In his first 2 years President Trump can ‘offer’ to change it provided that ALL Democrats in congress vote to put a stop to it.
There may not be many windfarms by 2018.
Deregulation of coal and cutting of subsidies may pull the rug out from under them.
There are probably more Bald Eagles in the U.S. than there are domestic chickens. They will not be taken off the endangered list because the whackos will lose some control over businesses. Bill Clinton was going to take them off the endangered list then suddenly backed off without comment.
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