Squaring the Circle

The only way to save the village is to destroy it.

Where is PETA? Oh I remember they are busy protecting chickens and turkey, or is it that they are chickens and turkeys?

Somewhere, somehow, this perverted logic makes sense to someone. Of course those pesky eagles keep on eating the Sacramento Smelts into extinction so they must pay.

Syncrude gets fined millions for killing a few geese while hundreds of thousands are killed by hunters.

Windmill operators in the US are free to kill Eagles while anyone else is fined $250,000 and jailed for 2 years.

Sense?

A wounded eagle or a dead one at the base of a wind fan is really bad publicity so better to kill them before they hit the fan then you can get rid of the body or blame it on illegal hunters.

"A wounded eagle or a dead one at the base of a wind fan is really bad publicity so better to kill them before they hit the fan..."

Exactly.

Un-freaking-believable.

moving the goal posts

Overheard at an environmental planning meeting.

"Oh, well. What's a few bald eagles? Remember. Our goal is to make the big oil companies be the bad guys."

*sniff*...*sniff*...Y'know, I think this metaphor's gone bad. Better throw it out.

Racheal Carson...call your office...

These Enviromental cultists hypocracy, is 2nd only to Islam. Both in the end advocate a fianl solution.

This is not a government I support. This is DISGUSTING.

Yet, it is a metaphor of what this administration is doing to my country.

Is it bad of me to want a terrorist to set off a big bomb in DC? But that won't happen because they won't hurt their contributors.

Killing a bald eagle is a felony. Unless it isn't. If you kill or injure a bald eagle, even accidentally, you go to jail. If I build a wind tower knowing full well that bald eagles will be casualties, it's collateral damage. Because, after all, I'm saving the freaking planet!!! Don't you dummies know anything??!!?

Nuance deficient...

Is there absolutely no hypocrisy that the Obamaessiah administration will not indulge in? Probably not.

I have two bald eagles nesting in a large tree about 400 ft from my house. I enjoy seeing them, they are magnificent, although my neighbor, with a koi pond, doesn't like them very much.

Gawd...could someone please get rid of the resident communist in the White House.

Sane people will just pull down the monster bird/bee/bat slaughter machines someday soon because like all killers, wind whips are ugly and they serve no useful purpose. The irrational and juvenile fools who had a fairytale idea for energy from 'free' sources like wind and sun should be ridiculed off the place. Why adults would invest in a inane youngster's 'idea' is a mystery to all of us who live in the real world and are over fifteen years of age.

Can't they just put up nice safe nuclear reactors?

Bald eagles, spotted owls - I like birds! And yet central California has to be shut down because of a few little fish.

What's next? You know the answer as well as I do: Death Panels for human beings.

The great god Gaia demands sacrifices.

This week, bald eagles.

Next week, environmentalists.

All pray to Gaia

CTV Nat.News just now reporting Sea Shepherd capt.Watson is 'under arrest'..didn't catch where tho.

After his experience with communists in the Spanish Civil War Orwell was a teacher. If he could have had experience with environmentalists, he'd be a student.

It's funny how a REAL industry, creating REAL jobs, which may or may not have some environmental costs, has mountains of grief/red tape.

Then the BULLSHIT industries get all manner of exceptions, allowances and excuses as to why it's ok, but only in this instance.Dead birds, mercury bulbs, subsidised green power rates.. ad nauseum.

Frickin greenies, I'm gonna have to learn how to cook and eat those bastards...

What is more important- protecting a "green" project that won't work or taking down an American symbol legally?

Spurwing Plover lives here.

yep...

Hey- In Dalton McGuintys Ontario, now you don't even have to ask for permission!
http://quixoteslaststand.com/2012/04/05/from-owr-bill-55-paves-the-way-for-environmental-destruction/

So let me get this straight.
The bald eagle becomes nearly extinct in the US during the 1970s.
At great effort, they re-colonize it with bird populations from Canada.
And now they want to start killing it again in the interests of wind generation?

When you see a DEMOCRAT administration change the law protecting bald eagles so the windmill clowns can get ahead, you can -smell- the kickback money.

It also shows just how shallow the Greenies are in pursuit of their stated goals. They don't believe in any of it, its all a smoke screen.

Note, also, the purposeful banality of the passage of government regulation authorising the 'take' of eagles (i.e. killing them):

"Since publication of the 2009 final rule, we have reviewed applications from proponents of renewable energy projects, such as wind and solar power facilities, for programmatic permits to authorize eagle take that may result from both the construction and ongoing operations of renewable energy projects."

https://www.federalregister.gov/articles/2012/04/13/2012-8086/eagle-permits-changes-in-the-regulations-governing-eagle-permitting#p-15

If I build an electric gun and use wind power to fuel it, can I shoot as many bald eagles as I like ??

Meanwhile if a spotted owl is seen on the family farm they virtually lose all title to it - this kind of regulatory madness no loger shocks me. I came to the conclusion some years ago that federal bureaucrats are howling mad and have slipped the leash - toxic hypocrisy and viceral injustice is common in the wake of their regulating, it's just a matter of when the public decide to euthenise these hydrophobic mutts.

Love that "environmentally friendly energy".

BDT, tee!

I forget where I read this, but someone once pointed out that liberals always bring punishment to the party.

If governments paid cash bounties for endangered species counted on someone's land, rather than fining people for damaging habitat, there might be a tad more enthusiasm for protecting endangered species. I'll bet it could be a fraction of the amount levied as a fine, and as long as it was an attractive enough sum, the net effect would be positive.