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Wind energy company pleads guilty to killing 150 eagles in the US
Posted by weagle99 on 4/6/22 at 10:25 pm589
Feeling like you are doing something is more important than indiscriminately killing wild animals
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A wind energy company was sentenced to probation and ordered to pay more than $8 million in fines and restitution after at least 150 eagles were killed over the past decade at its wind farms in eight states, federal prosecutors said Wednesday.
NextEra Energy subsidiary ESI Energy pleaded guilty to three counts of violating the Migratory Bird Treaty Act during a Tuesday court appearance in Cheyenne, Wyoming. It was charged criminally in the deaths of nine eagles at three of its wind farms in Wyoming and New Mexico.
In addition to those deaths, ESI acknowledged the deaths of golden and bald eagles at 50 wind farms affiliated with ESI and NextEra since 2012. The birds died in eight states, prosecutors said: Wyoming, California, New Mexico, North Dakota, Colorado, Michigan, Arizona and Illinois.
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This post was edited on 4/6 at 10:42 pm
re: Wind energy company pleads guilty to killing 150 eagles in the USPosted by Bawwitdabaw on 4/6/22 at 10:47 pm to weagle99
Looks to me like this is how government is setting up their kickbacks from the energy company.
re: Wind energy company pleads guilty to killing 150 eagles in the USPosted by fightin tigers on 4/6/22 at 10:51 pm to weagle99
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Companies historically have been able to avoid prosecution under the century-old Migratory Bird Treaty if they take steps to avoid bird deaths and seek permits for those that occur. ESI did not seek such a permit, authorities said.
The company was warned prior to building the wind farms in New Mexico and Wyoming that they would kill birds, but it proceeded anyway and at times ignored advice from federal wildlife officials about how to minimize the deaths, according to court documents.
“For more than a decade, ESI has violated (wildlife) laws, taking eagles without obtaining or even seeking the necessary permit,” said Assistant Attorney General Todd Kim of the Justice Department’s Environment and Natural Resources Division in a statement.
re: Wind energy company pleads guilty to killing 150 eagles in the USPosted by billjamin on 4/6/22 at 10:54 pm to fightin tigers
Feds pissed they didn’t pay the eagle tax up front.
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re: Wind energy company pleads guilty to killing 150 eagles in the USPosted by Zappas Stache on 4/6/22 at 10:54 pm to weagle99
One oil spill kills thousands of animals and taints their habitat for years but frick wind farms!
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re: Wind energy company pleads guilty to killing 150 eagles in the USPosted by BobMayonnaise on 4/6/22 at 10:57 pm to Zappas Stache
Oil has done far more damage than wind farms will ever approach.
re: Wind energy company pleads guilty to killing 150 eagles in the USPosted by weagle99 on 4/6/22 at 10:59 pm to BobMayonnaise
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Oil has done far more damage than wind farms will ever approach.
Are you talking about the oil needed to manufacture, transport, install, and maintain wind farms?
re: Wind energy company pleads guilty to killing 150 eagles in the USPosted by victoire sécurisé on 4/6/22 at 11:00 pm to soccerfüt
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And I will string you up for Eagle things….
I heard the song in my head exactly the way you intended.
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When do we start prosecuting utility and construction companies?
Are buildings and electric lines feel good exercises in vanity?
ETA: As a society we should destroy all feral cats
This post was edited on 4/6 at 11:09 pm
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re: Wind energy company pleads guilty to killing 150 eagles in the USPosted by Zappas Stache on 4/6/22 at 11:07 pm to mulletproof
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didn't hear about one Eagle killed in the last oil spill we had you two whiney ****s!!
Oh, so only eagle lives matter? frick the porpoise! Their is a T-shirt
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frick the Porpoise!
This post was edited on 4/6 at 11:10 pm
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What the frick are you babbling about? And what difference does it make to the birds?
At the moment we have to have buildings and utility lines. They are a necessity.
We have windmills so that certain people can feel like we are doing something to address their climate change religious beliefs. And so money can be made through government deals. They are not a necessity, and don’t have to be out there killing wildlife.
This post was edited on 4/6 at 11:16 pm
And another question for the believers: If we arrived at this precarious time due to man’s unintended consequences, how are you so certain that now the solutions proposed by man won’t also have negative unintended consequences?
This post was edited on 4/6 at 11:20 pm
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