Nationwide, about 440,000 birds are said to be accidentally killed at wind farms each year, as well as thousands more bats.

It is not the wind energy turbines – its the stupidly insensitive, disrespectful, callous men in the utility companies that profit off them. We have warned them of bird kills for years, telling them not to build in migration or nesting sites. But the utility companies want the biggest bang for their buck so they build where the wind is strongest which is where the birds nest and travel. Here in WI those callous fu–tard utility companies put turbines right next to the Horicon Marsh which is the nesting site for great waves of birds of every species. It is world famous. And the utility companies have made it a killing field. And they are constantly putting out propaganda just like the tobacco companies did telling us what a good thing the turbans are which is not the point. Google Horicon Marsh and you will see ,,,

THIS POST WAS INSPIRED BY WHAT LORAC WROTE AT UPPITY WOMAN BLOG

lorac, on June 7, 2011 at 1:16 AM said:

The poet Robert Burns is once again proven right:

In proving foresight may be vain:
The best laid schemes of mice and men
Go often askew,
And leave us nothing but grief and pain,
For promised joy!

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1394945/The-green-killer-Scores-protected-golden-eagles-dying-colliding-wind-turbines.html

California’s attempts to switch to green energy have inadvertently put the survival of the state’s golden eagles at risk.

Scores of the protected birds have been dying each year after colliding with the blades of about 5,000 wind turbines.

Now the drive for renewable power sources, such as wind and the sun, being promoted by President Obama and state Governor Jerry Brown has raised fears that the number of newborn golden eagles may not be able to keep pace with the number of turbine fatalities.

The death count along the ridgelines of the Bay Area’s Altamount Pass Wind Resource Area has averaged 67 a year for three decades.

The 200ft high turbines, which have been operating since the 1980s, lie in the heart of the grassy canyons that are home to one of the highest densities of nesting golden eagles in the US.

‘It would take 167 pairs of local nesting golden eagles to produce enough young to compensate for their mortality rate related to wind energy production,’ field biologist Doug Bell, manager of East Bay Regional Park District’s wildlife programme, told the Los Angeles Times. ‘We only have 60 pairs,’ he added.

Nationwide, about 440,000 birds are said to be accidentally killed at wind farms each year, as well as thousands more bats. With the government pushing for more wind energy farms, that statistic is likely to rise.

Another recovering species, the California Condor, is also said to be at risk from the giant blades.

‘We taxpayers have spent millions of dollars saving the California condor from extinction,’ Gary George, spokesman for Audubon California, told the Times.

‘How’s the public going to feel about wind energy if a condor hits the turbines?’ [snip]

‘The eagles usually die of blunt-force trauma injuries,’ said Mr Bell.

‘Once, I discovered a wounded golden eagle hobbling through tall grass, about a quarter mile from the turbine blades that had clipped its flight feathers.’

‘A wind farm owner once told me that if there were no witnesses, it would be impossible to prove a bird had been killed by a wind turbine blade.

My response was this: If you see a golden eagle sliced in half in a wind farm, what other explanation is there?’ he added.
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BigCatLover, on June 7, 2011 at 9:19 AM said:

Nationwide, about 440,000 birds are said to be accidentally killed at wind farms each year, as well as thousands more bats. With the government pushing for more wind energy farms, that statistic is likely to rise.
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I’d heard that the wind power towers were taking bird’s lives, but I hadn’t seen the numbers before. Yikes. Is the dailymail a reliable source. How expensive could it be to send out a signal that would turn the birds away from the towers. ???????????