Birders fake birds death to discredit wind power

[nadinbrzezinski]

43. No I am not

I have sat at a court of law where that exact claim was made in open court and not challenged. The eagle is protected, together with golden and brown eagles.

The question, including swaynsawn hawks was how many is too many. The folks against the development have one answer, zero. The lawyers for the developer presented evidence of efforts to reduce takes, including radar that is supposed to shut down the turbines, mitigation this is called.

So no, I am not changing anything.

Companies are issued take permits that include protected species, and relieve them of the heavy fines that come with it...it is seen as you paid those fines potentially ahead if it...and the actual number of birds killed are supposed to be reported, to the regulatory agencies, every quarter. If they take more than mitigation permitted them for...they are supposed to be fined for the extra birds.

Now being the cynic that I am, I have my doubts any birds above the take permit are actually reported, not like BLM can have Rangers there 24/7/365. But that is just me.

But hey, this is one of the dark sides of the industry as currently constituted, and one that people dare not talk about.

Have a good day...I have covered this for two years now. Have sat in Federal Court, know one project, the local tribe said no, we all expected them to say yes...I suspect the effects of the towers already in place have convinced some in the tribal council that expanding it is not good.

Another is producing power far and bellow what the company promised...and fraud is being talked about.

Is wind part of it? It needs to be revised. Regardless in my neck of the woods solar makes far more sense, but distributive power will be fought by the utilities since is 180 from their business model.

So tell me, how many court cases have you sat through were local fauna and flora is on the docket?