Via Canadian Observer — I certainly don’t remember anyone ever telling Exxon or Shell… “No worries about your tailings ponds, just breed some new ducks”
In an unusual — and somewhat controversial — move, federal wildlife officials in California are teaming up with a wind power company to breed endangered California condors in captivity, in an effort to replace any that might be felled by turbine blades.
The company, Avangrid Renewables, which operates 126 turbines in the windy Tehachapi Mountains about 100 miles northeast of Los Angeles, is working with the United States Fish and Wildlife Service to breed the birds in captivity at the Oregon Zoo. The proposed program, which was reported by The Los Angeles Times this week and is still subject to final approval by the Wildlife Service, could begin as soon as this spring.
That’s odd. I recall being reliably informed that they don’t kill birds.
Guess they have alternate facts. It has been my observation they will say , do,lie , create context or anything they can think of to make Donald Trump look bad. It applies equally to anything that doesn’t fit their perception of reality. Again and again they accuse people of doing exactly what they are doing.
Too bad they didn’t use that logic for the Northern Spotted Owl instead of sterilizing billions worth of federal timberlands based on a junk-science hypothesis and now find themselves quietly paying USFS employees to shoot Barred Owls who are driving the smaller Owls away.
Day 1 of a rational government should eliminate any carve outs for “green energy”…
we won’t every have a rational government
From the CBS article I extrapolated that there are around 9 billion birds in the U.S. Cats kill roughly 2.4 billion a year. Wind turbines kill 1.8 million “songbirds” . Why songbirds? Because the turbines kill the raptors, that is why, and no greenie wants to admit that turbines kill even one of those majestic birds.
Cats kill 2.4 billion birds a year. You would have to prove it to me
It will be a sad day when golden eagles no longer ply the skies of the west. But I guess that they gotta go the way of the four tusked mastodon. It’s for the children.
What is the bag limit on California Condors anyway?
Bag limit is 6 per day for ducks in Alberta.
So environmental rules, laws, edicts, conventions and now actual science is subject to interpretation and differing application?
Colour me unsurprised. Appalled, frustrated, discouraged, flabbergasted, betrayed; all that, just not surprised.
I’d be surprised if the swamp dwelling ne’er do well losers picking government saw it any other way.
When will supposedly intelligent people realize the rhetoric does not match policy? Anybody thinking backing Bombardier, WE and SNC Lavalin was ever about decency, or inclusion, or creating jobs should check themselves into the nearest psychiatric facility.
Their fine speeches, pontifications and pronouncements are usually the opposite of what they’re truly peddling?
Their stock and trade is power; nothing else. They will say what they must just to get away with that, for votes they can then forget.
Will the wind power corporation compensate me? Pay … reparations … for the destruction of the scenic environment? For the loathsome blight of multiple scenic vistas.
When The State allows pristine wilderness to be carpet bombed with gigantic wind contraptions … they OWE the public compensation for loss of Environment. When the State does NOT levy fines for … “loss of visual wilderness” … then that amounts to yet another subsidy for “renewable” energy.
I’m not sure if you’ve been through the Tehachapi Pass but it’s littered with what must be hundreds of abandoned obsolete wind turbines. It’s quite a sight – and not a pretty one. I’ve been through twice and each time only a small percentage of the more modern turbines were operating.
Developing a new kind of bird that will not get caught in the blades. What’s it called, a duck ?
It’s amazing what becomes true or false depending on who occupies the White House.
I found it unusual that my searches ~6 months ago to find out about California Condor mortality from wind farm always yielded zero results. It’s almost as though no one was looking (and no, it’s wasn’t a straight Google search).
I now have my answer. I’m not allowed to ask that question.