CFACT just released a troubling report by Senior Advisor David Wojick about the dramatic threat wind turbines pose to bald and golden eagles.
Federal regulators concluded that the golden eagle population cannot survive increased kills from human activity and also determined that wind turbines substantially increase eagle deaths.
The feds then offered a solution only a bureaucrat could love: Don't protect the eagles from turbine strikes, but “offset their deaths by reducing electrocutions from power poles.
Government being as efficient as it is, they then underestimated the number of power poles that would need to be made safe by a factor of as much as 241 and failed to save any meaningful number of eagles.
As the report concludes, the Fish and Wildlife Service should issue no new wind power eagle-kill permits until the glaring issues uncovered in this study are resolved
Time for FWS to Stop Wind Power Eagle-Kill Permits.
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