Killing birds - now more than ever
From the "if you don't like the numbers, re-write them" department.
Erika Johnsen writing at
Hot Air:
Study: Feds underestimating the number of protected bird deaths at all the wind farms they aren�t prosecuting
The federal government has made it their especial business, not merely to restrict recreational and productive commercial access in many areas of the full one-third of the surface area of the United States it controls � often on the proclaimed behalf of the Spotted Owl, the Sage Grouse, the Golden Eagle, etcetera � but also to aggressively pursue and prosecute any hydrocarbon companies that they discover have been responsible for killing any protected birds via their industrial activities.
Miraculously, however, the Obama administration has so far neglected to prosecute nor level the heavy related fines against any wind-energy companies, despite the mass deaths of birds protected by the Eagle Protection and Migratory Bird Treaty Acts that they often cause. Even better, the Daily Caller reports on a study that confirms that the feds have been conspicuously underestimating the number of bird deaths resulting from these swept-under-the-rug wind-turbine collisions.
Where is Greenpeace? Where is the Sierra Club?
The enviros must be suffering a little bit of
cognitive dissonance these days but that is not an unusual state of mind for a non-scientific environmentalist...
Posted by DaveH at July 24, 2013 2:00 PM