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Wind energy company pleads guilty after at least 150 eagles killed in U.S.
NBC News ^ | 4/7/22 | AP

Posted on 04/07/2022 3:00:02 PM PDT by Impala64ssa

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Once again libs are oblivious to the laws of unintended consequences. And where does that $8 million in fines go to? The families of those dead eagles?
1 posted on 04/07/2022 3:00:02 PM PDT by Impala64ssa
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I thought the eagles were sacrosanct in America. Now they’re expendable sacrifices at the altar of the green energy cult.


2 posted on 04/07/2022 3:03:48 PM PDT by Prince of Space ( Let’s go, Brandon! )
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We have bald and golden eagles around here. I wish they'd take those useless eyesores down. I like to tell my kids that they sometimes make enough energy to have some of the red lights blinking at night.
3 posted on 04/07/2022 3:04:22 PM PDT by Trillian
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“Prosecutors said the company’s failure to take steps .... to obtain permits to kill the birds ....”

Another example of how the government is no different than the mob.


4 posted on 04/07/2022 3:05:39 PM PDT by 21twelve (Ever Vigilant. Never Fearful.)
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Saving planet Earth, one eagle at a time.


5 posted on 04/07/2022 3:05:41 PM PDT by Telepathic Intruder
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Libtards are destroying the animals of the planet and must be stopped 🤪


6 posted on 04/07/2022 3:06:46 PM PDT by NWFree (Somebody has to say it)
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“Alaska paid over $100,000 in bounties for 115,000 bald eagles between 1917 and 1942. [Anon. Science News Letter, July 3, 1943]”

That was one of the arguments submitted in the defense against banning DDT, which was accused of being responsible for the decline of not only eagles but all raptors.

” William Ruckelshaus, the administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency who made the ultimate decision to ban DDT in 1972, was a member of the Environmental Defense Fund. Ruckelshaus solicited donations for EDF on his personal stationery that read “EDF’s scientists blew the whistle on DDT by showing it to be a cancer hazard, and three years later, when the dust had cleared, EDF had won.”

100 THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT DDT:

https://junkscience.com/100-things-you-should-know-about-ddt/#ref1


7 posted on 04/07/2022 3:07:11 PM PDT by Hot Tabasco (I'm Jimmy Crack Corn and I don't care)
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Prairie dogs and other critters must love wind turbines.


8 posted on 04/07/2022 3:08:26 PM PDT by Night Hides Not (Remember the Alamo! Remember Goliad! Remember Gonzales! Come and Take It!)
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For more commentary:

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4053013/posts

😂🙌


9 posted on 04/07/2022 3:09:46 PM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this? 😕)
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Did they finally get Don Henley?


10 posted on 04/07/2022 3:10:04 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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I met T. Boone Pickens. oil billionaire and hopeful candidate for Prez in ‘86 Republican primaries. We had raised a little money for him and he was delighted to speak with me.

He had been all in favor of windmill energy but quickly backtracked when he saw all the dead birds. Smart and very pleasant man.


11 posted on 04/07/2022 3:13:47 PM PDT by Veto! (Political correctness offends me)
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We can sacrifice them too with solar power farms. The mammals will have no prairies to roam, the birds no place to fly, all to appease the earth goddess.


12 posted on 04/07/2022 3:14:49 PM PDT by Telepathic Intruder
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This would be hilarious - if it wasn’t indicative of the politically-induced energy shortages we are likely to experience in the near future.


13 posted on 04/07/2022 3:18:08 PM PDT by PGR88
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Here is a large large pile of dead birds.
https://wwwcache.wral.com/asset/news/local/2022/02/06/20119968/149609-deadbirds-DMID1-5tt430sbf-1280x720.jpg


14 posted on 04/07/2022 3:31:23 PM PDT by minnesota_bound (Need more money to buy gas)
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More eagles killed than by all US nuclear plants combined since the beginning of nuclear power plants.


15 posted on 04/07/2022 3:32:10 PM PDT by Salman (It's not a "slippery slope" if it was part of the program all along. )
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Shut the windmills down, dismantle and sell for scrap metal, they should have known that getting into bed with the feds would come back to bite them in the ass


16 posted on 04/07/2022 3:32:19 PM PDT by eyeamok (founded in cynicism, wrapped in sarcasm)
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This is liberalism in the raw. They get the country to depend on green energy and then find a way to stop it. It’s all part of their plan to starve 90% of humanity to death.


17 posted on 04/07/2022 3:50:16 PM PDT by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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the left insists that these monstrosities go up then fine the people that do it?


18 posted on 04/07/2022 3:57:16 PM PDT by mowowie
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Maybe it wasn’t an accident. Maybe it was mass suicide. Maybe the eagles couldn’t live with the disgrace of being the symbol of a nation run by Joe Bite-Me.


19 posted on 04/07/2022 4:00:41 PM PDT by Paal Gulli
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It might be a different story if the turbines actually did what they are supposed to. But they don’t. They are useless pieces of junk.

Having a wind turbine on your farm to pump water or produce extra energy for lighting and heat: Great idea. It’s not going to solve all your energy problems, but it’s great when the power goes down.

Having a hundred wind turbines covering acres of land - a lot of the time just sitting there motionlessly or perhaps rotating in a sluggish manner, producing no energy, and killing wildlife when they are operating: Terrible idea. Like low-flush toilets. Like disposable cars. Like banning oil drilling. It’s a sop to those who believe the liberal lie. (And, of course, a waste of taxpayers’ money.)

There’s a big wind farm out in east Colorado that I’ve driven past a number of times. There are probably 50 turbines. Almost every time I’ve seen them they are just barely turning, if at all.

But a couple of times when the wind was up - a terrifying sight. You can see how rickety and dangerous they are.


20 posted on 04/07/2022 4:10:51 PM PDT by Scarlett156 (I dont go on Discord as the last time I did, the guys spying on me/Mr K were talking about it. (BTW))
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