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A reminder about the future for wind turbine installations and owners;
https://stopthesethings.com/2017/03/13/born-lucky-stars-align-perfectly-for-pms-son-with-mammoth-bet-on-wind-power-outfit-infigen/
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New onshore wind power is now illegal. We may have to convince FWS.
Wind power’s eagle-kill permits are a deadly failure so permitting must stop
By David Wojick
https://www.cfact.org/2025/05/05/wind-powers-eagle-kill-permits-are-a-deadly-failure-so-permitting-must-stop/
The beginning:
“About 15 years ago the US Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) determined that the golden eagle population could not withstand an increase in human caused mortality. But there was a great queue of proposed wind projects that wanted FWS permits to kill these eagles under the Eagle Protection Act, which would certainly increase the kill rate.
In response the FWS created an offset program in which eagle deaths due to power pole electrocution would supposedly be reduced by an amount equal to the increased deaths due to wind turbines. We now know that this offset program has completely failed as there has been no reduction in electrocution deaths.
The likely cause of this failure is that the FWS uses an electrocution death rate that is extremely incorrect. As a result the number of power poles that have been made safe is just a tiny fraction of what it would take to create the desired offset.
The FWS should issue no more wind power eagle kill permits until this issue is resolved. Accurate power pole death rates need to be determined. Given there are over a hundred million poles in America the offset numbers may be so high that the program is not feasible. In that case wind development must stop.”
Lots more in the article including technical analysis. Please share this article.
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Excellent article David.
TRUMP the conservationist saves the eagles.
In contrast the Left were prepared to continue sacrificing eagles in pursuit of their nature-worshipping religion.
It’s interesting reading a Leftist “fact check” (sic) falsely claiming TRUMP’s earlier 2023 claim about eagles deaths was wrong. They play a lot of semantic and definitional games. See https://www.newsweek.com/fact-check-are-thousands-bald-eagles-killed-wind-turbines-1778304
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Make Australian history great again. Captain Cook did nothing wrong. And neither did the other European explorers that came and explored.
1606 Willem Janszoon
1606 Luis Vaez de Torres
1616 Dirk Hartog
1619 Frederick de Houtman
1644 Abel Tasman
1696 Willem de Vlamingh
1699 William Dampier
1770 James Cook
1797–99 George Bass
1801–03 Matthew Flinders
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