Posted on 04/20/2017 2:11:21 PM PDT by george76
After years of creating headaches for the oil-and-gas industry, the greater sage grouse is now standing in the way of renewable energy.
The U.S. District Court in Portland on Wednesday killed a major wind-energy project slated for southeast Oregon over concerns about its impact on a local sage grouse population in a victory for environmental groups, which had fought the proposal for years.
The 104-megawatt project, which would have spread up to 70 wind turbines and a transmission line across 10,500 acres in rural Harney County, was decried by environmentalists as an “industrial scale wind development” that would have disrupted sage-grouse habitat.
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The Fish and Wildlife Service ruled in 2015 that the greater sage grouse “does not warrant protection under the Endangered Species Act,” finding that the chicken-sized bird remains “relatively abundant and well-distributed across the species’ 173-million acre range.”
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
LOL
Now thas worth saving!
Wind turbines are mass bird-murder-machines, and when they operate, they are sometimes okay at providing expensive and unreliable power, often when it's needed least.
Electricity costing 10x as much as traditional methods couldn’t stop it but a grouse did!! Awesome and hopefully the grouse will have huntable populations.
Heh.
Sage grouse cause global warming.
I’m enjoying this...
Surprisingly plump for a free range sage grouse?
Are you certain that wasn’t a caged bird?
Hope you have all the requisite certificates and a solid chain of custody?
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