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Final wind-turbine rule permits thousands of eagle deaths
SFGate.com ^ | 12//14/16 | Matthew Daly - AP

Posted on 12/14/2016 11:51:46 AM PST by NormsRevenge

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration on Wednesday finalized a rule that lets wind-energy companies 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 new rule, wind companies and other power providers will not face a penalty if they kill or injure up to 4,200 bald eagles, nearly four times the current limit. Deaths of the more rare golden eagles would be allowed without penalty so long as companies minimize losses by taking steps such as retrofitting power poles to reduce the risk of electrocution.

The new rule will conserve eagles while also spurring development of a pollution-free energy source intended to ease global warming, a cornerstone of President Barack Obama's energy plan, said Fish and Wildlife Service Director Dan Ashe.

"No animal says America like the bald eagle," Ashe said in a statement. He said the Fish and Wildlife Service is trying to balance energy development with eagle conservation.

(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; Government
KEYWORDS: agw; baldeagle; baldeagles; deaths; eagle; eagles; fish; globalwarming; goldeneagle; goldeneagles; permits; wildlife; windturbine
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To: hoosierham

That’s what I hear. Like I said, nobody did some kind of a study before all these turbines were created?


61 posted on 12/14/2016 1:29:19 PM PST by DoughtyOne (jcon40, "Are we be coming into the age of Sanity?")
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To: NormsRevenge

well- gotta do away with all the ‘gains’ that the ‘DDT Ban’ supposedly accomplished- A liberal meme seems to be ‘never let success go unpunished


62 posted on 12/14/2016 1:33:58 PM PST by Bob434
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To: Timpanagos1

Wind turbines are pushing Texas’s power grid to the limit, despite more than $8 billion invested in green infrastructure, according to a report published Friday in the Technology Review, by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

“Texas is learning just how costly it is to wrangle the wind,” MIT researchers found.

Texas is already spending $8 billion, but the state’s utilities and transmission companies will have to spend hundreds of millions more to upgrade the system enough to transport electricity from wind-rich West Texas to market in East Texas, the report found. Texas’ new wind turbines also place dangerous stress on the power grid, potentially leading to blackouts.
http://dailycaller.com/2016/08/08/costly-wind-turbines-are-damaging-texas-power-grid-mit-study-finds/


63 posted on 12/14/2016 1:39:35 PM PST by JayGalt
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To: dirtboy

“... if an oil spill kills a single mallard...”

I was on a job where some guy with another firm was careless undoing a hydraulic hose and about 1/2 cup of fluid spilled onto the desert sand.

The federal guy watching us had them lay down the soak mats, dig the soil up, and then shut all of us down for a day and a half while they reviewed safety measures and “training”.


64 posted on 12/14/2016 1:43:05 PM PST by 21twelve (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2185147/posts It is happening again.)
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To: Logical me

“Trump must kill the wind turbine industry. And order all turbines be removed no exception and the turbine industry must pay for removal.”

You know - hundreds of thousands of 20’ diameter by 100-foot tall steel cylinders laid on its side would make a formidable barrier - like a wall.


65 posted on 12/14/2016 1:47:24 PM PST by 21twelve (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2185147/posts It is happening again.)
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To: dirtboy
Syncrude was ordered to pay 3 million - although that was in Canada.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/syncrude-to-pay-3m-penalty-for-duck-deaths-1.906420

66 posted on 12/14/2016 2:03:49 PM PST by Sam Gamgee
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To: volunbeer

Doesn’t matter to the left. Whatever it takes for wind and solar; even though the costs are astronomic.


67 posted on 12/14/2016 2:05:10 PM PST by Sam Gamgee
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To: IC Ken; null and void

OK so a guy out hunting accidentally kills a condor. Figuring it makes no difference after the fact, he roasts it and eats it.

A park ranger walks up, see the remaining carcass, arrests him and takes him to jail.

At his trial the judge says, “OK it was an accident, $100 fine and time served”.

The judge pulls the guy aside and says, “Well, I gotta ask, what DOES a condor taste like?”

The guy says, “Well, your honor, it’s sort of a cross between an eagle and a spotted owl”.


68 posted on 12/14/2016 2:20:03 PM PST by SaveFerris (Hebrews 13:2 Do not forget to entertain strangers, for ... some have unwittingly entertained angels)
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To: Texas Eagle

Obama: Fundamentally-transforming America (for the worse) since 2008 (on a national scale).


69 posted on 12/14/2016 2:21:15 PM PST by SaveFerris (Hebrews 13:2 Do not forget to entertain strangers, for ... some have unwittingly entertained angels)
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To: NormsRevenge

This is really sick, and with the right messaging would turn environmentalist bleeding hearts right around on wind energy.

I would love to see the GOP peel off still more Dem votes this way.


70 posted on 12/14/2016 2:21:56 PM PST by 9YearLurker
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To: itsahoot; dfwgator

Somebody let Hillary know: I saw a Russian get pulled into one by a parachute!


71 posted on 12/14/2016 2:26:38 PM PST by SaveFerris (Hebrews 13:2 Do not forget to entertain strangers, for ... some have unwittingly entertained angels)
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To: NormsRevenge

Like Obama and/or Hillary’s crimes, the liberals turn away from certain realities to keep their agenda du jour going.


72 posted on 12/14/2016 2:27:55 PM PST by SaveFerris (Hebrews 13:2 Do not forget to entertain strangers, for ... some have unwittingly entertained angels)
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To: DoughtyOne

A single blade from a turbine is 100 feet long. The turbines must be several feet apart. There can be miles and miles of land with turbines making fencing them in, impossible in reality. A restructuring/redesign looks feasible. And, expensive. Best to replace current designs with newer more efficient ones, and new fields with new designes.

Harnessing natural power has a way to go, yet.


73 posted on 12/14/2016 2:29:43 PM PST by PrairieLady2
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To: SaveFerris
Somebody let Hillary know: I saw a Russian get pulled into one by a parachute!

That's why Edna said.....

74 posted on 12/14/2016 2:29:57 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: NormsRevenge
So...4,200 Eagles can get chopped out of the wind...and "they" call it conserving....

These people are nuts........

75 posted on 12/14/2016 2:32:37 PM PST by Osage Orange (Cover up after cover up...OUR GOVERNMENT is OUT OF CONTROL)
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To: dirtboy

Ding, Ding....You are very much correct!!


76 posted on 12/14/2016 2:33:17 PM PST by Osage Orange (Cover up after cover up...OUR GOVERNMENT is OUT OF CONTROL)
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To: Brian Griffin
LOL!!

I hope you are kidding............

77 posted on 12/14/2016 2:35:54 PM PST by Osage Orange (Cover up after cover up...OUR GOVERNMENT is OUT OF CONTROL)
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To: Tudorfly

They don’t just kill birds....they kill bats, and insects.


78 posted on 12/14/2016 2:37:40 PM PST by Osage Orange (Cover up after cover up...OUR GOVERNMENT is OUT OF CONTROL)
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To: Timpanagos1
What?

Proof your statement, please.

79 posted on 12/14/2016 2:39:40 PM PST by Osage Orange (Cover up after cover up...OUR GOVERNMENT is OUT OF CONTROL)
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To: DoughtyOne

Studies can show whatever the funder wants.Begin with flawed assumptions on generator efficiency,reliability,and maintenance.Add unlimited government funding. If wind were viable and profitable the utilities would have built them long ago.

Wind powered generators , like solar,are terrific in certain niche situations where conventional power plants are too distant or not economically viable.


80 posted on 12/14/2016 2:41:06 PM PST by hoosierham (Freedom isn't free)
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