Wind turbines are one of the great conundrums of the green movement. The truly green animal rights-variety environmentalist want the false promise of wind power without the avian slaughter, but they are inseparable.
Modern-day windmills kill birds and bats and create disruptions to life on earth.
The “we just want to destroy fossil fuels ‘cuz reasons” enviros (political Dems) dismiss this cost because any life beyond their own has no real meaning. If blacks have to die to prove other black live matter, so be it. Unborn black ‘women’ aren’t people either.
The Biden Administration is just a reflection of this contradiction. They want more wind machines, lots of them. Their vision includes a world covered with them regardless of the cost.
At the same time, they enforce regulations that fine wind energy companies for installations that kill protected species even though the deaths are unavoidable.
A subsidiary of one of the largest U.S. providers of renewable energy pleaded guilty to criminal charges and was ordered to pay over $8 million in fines and restitution after at least 150 bald eagles were killed at its wind farms in eight states, federal prosecutors said Wednesday.
NextEra Energy subsidiary ESI Energy was also sentenced to five years probation after being charged with three counts of violating the Migratory Bird Treaty Act during a court appearance in Cheyenne, Wyoming. The charges arose from the deaths of nine bald eagles at three wind farms in Wyoming and New Mexico.
In addition to those deaths, the company acknowledged the deaths of golden and bald eagles at 50 wind farms affiliated with ESI and NextEra since 2012, prosecutors said. Birds were killed in eight states: Wyoming, California, New Mexico, North Dakota, Colorado, Michigan, Arizona and Illinois.
The odds are good that a lot more eagles were killed because there’s no way to say if predators carried off carcasses or if “people” removed them to hide evidence. This also fails to address any other birds or bats whose lives were interrupted by this technology. Wind machines kill things, not just economies.
They also have permission to kill things if you’ve paid for the proper permits.
Prosecutors said the company’s failure to take steps to protect eagles or to obtain permits to kill the birds gave it an advantage over competitors that did take such steps — even as ESI and other NextEra affiliates received hundreds of millions of dollars in federal tax credits from the wind power they produced.
I’m not are of what steps can be taken to keep a bird from intersecting with a wind turbine but paying for permission in case they die sounds interesting. Not so much as the hundreds of millions of your dollars they received to erect the bird choppers in the first place.
Or that this prosecution comes as a result of the Biden Administrations’ renewed push to enforce a law that punished wind energy companies for killing birds with the things of which Biden also wants more.
To summarize. Biden gives wind companies hundreds of millions to erect birt murdering machines. The same government then takes those companies to court for killing birds, which gives back a few million.
In exchange, you get unreliable energy from equipment that can’t be recycled, and this is “good for the environment.”
That sounds like a Democrat “solution” to me.
