Wind energy company pleads guilty to eagle deaths

[walkstall]

More smoke and mirrors for a diversions.

It's not like they did not know for a very long time. 





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WASHINGTON (AP) — The government for the first time has enforced environmental laws protecting birds against wind energy facilities, winning a $1 million settlement Friday from a power company that pleaded guilty to killing 14 eagles and 149 other birds at two Wyoming wind farms.

The Obama administration has championed pollution-free wind power and used the same law against oil companies and power companies for drowning and electrocuting birds. The case against Duke Energy Corp. and its renewable energy arm was the first prosecuted under the Migratory Bird Treaty Act against a wind energy company.

"In this plea agreement, Duke Energy Renewables acknowledges that it constructed these wind projects in a manner it knew beforehand would likely result in avian deaths," Robert G. Dreher, acting assistant attorney general for the Justice Department's Environment and Natural Resources Division, said in a statement Friday.

An investigation by The Associated Press in May revealed dozens of eagle deaths from wind energy facilities, including at Duke's Top of the World farm outside Casper, Wyo., the deadliest for eagles of 15 such facilities that Duke operates nationwide. The other wind farm included in the settlement is also in Converse County and is called Campbell Hill. All the deaths, which included golden eagles, hawks, blackbirds, wrens and sparrows, occurred from 2009 to 2013.

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Until Friday's announcement, not a single wind energy company had been prosecuted for a death of an eagle or other protected bird — even though each death is a violation of federal law, unless a company has a federal permit. Not a single wind energy facility has obtained a permit.


DINA CAPPIELLO, AP
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[TboneAgain]

The larger wind turbines have tip speeds in the neighborhood of 170 mph. It's not exactly surprising that a lot of birds get shredded. Of course the developers and promoters knew this advance. It just wasn't politically correct to say so.

[Solar]

This Green shit pisses me off to no end, mostly because there are enough stupid people in the country to believe it.
How did we ever fall so far as to elect a Marxist.

[Montesquieu]

This Green shit pisses me off to no end, mostly because there are enough stupid people in the country to believe it.

It's pretty much inevitable. There is a century of fossil fuel left, more or less depending on the type.

The problem now is that it is being pushed before reaching competitiveness in the energy market, and wind obviously is killing our Eagles.

How did we ever fall so far as to elect a Marxist.

FDR 

[Solar]

It's pretty much inevitable. There is a century of fossil fuel left, more or less depending on the type.

The problem now is that it is being pushed before reaching competitiveness in the energy market, and wind obviously is killing our Eagles.

FDR 

Don't believe the 100 year BS, there's more than a thousand years of oil out there, and that's based on today's technology.

[Montesquieu]

Don't believe the 100 year BS, there's more than a thousand years of oil out there, and that's based on today's technology.

I do hope humanity lasts well more than a thousand or even ten thousand years.

[Solar]

I do hope humanity lasts well more than a thousand or even ten thousand years.

According to the libs, we'll be dying from AGW.