The rampant slaughter of millions of birds and bats, including America’s iconic bald and golden eagles, is met with a shrug by wind power acolytes, everywhere. When confronted, the wind industry simply resorts 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.
For concentrated carnage, though, California’s Altamont Pass takes the cake. With thousands of turbines slicing and dicing dozens of golden eagles, owls, hawks, and kites every day, it’s more like an abattoir than a power generation facility.
Finally, America’s Audubon Society has lawyered up in an effort to…
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