If wind power were delivered at an affordable cost, 24 x 365, the wind industry might just justify the rampant slaughter of millions of birds and bats, including America’s iconic bald and golden eagles. However, given that wind power will only ever be delivered in chaotic fits and spurts all avian carnage is is entirely pointless.
Every butchered eagle is greeted by the wind power cult with a ‘couldn’t care less’ shrug; the wind industry switches to lies and obfuscation and – when the corpses can no longer be hidden and the lying fails – issue court proceedings in an effort to literally bury those facts (see our post here).
Cars, cats and skyscrapers don’t kill Eagles – like the critically endangered Tasmanian wedge-tailed eagle, but 60m wind turbine blades with their tips travelling at 350Kph routinely smash them out of existence.
With thousands more of these things being speared into rural landscapes and wilderness areas, predatory avian species like Eagles, Hawks, Kites, Falcons, etc don’t stand a chance, as David Wojick outlines below.
How much wind killing do we want?
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