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WASHINGTON (AP) Wind energy facilities have killed at least 67 golden and bald eagles in the last five years, but the figure could be much higher, according to a new scientific study by government biologists.
The research represents one of the first tallies of eagle deaths attributed to the nations growing wind energy industry, which has been a pillar of President Barack Obamas plans to reduce the pollution blamed for global warming. Wind power releases no air pollution.
But at a minimum, the scientists wrote, wind farms in 10 states have killed at least 85 eagles since 1997, with most deaths occurring between 2008 and 2012, as the industry was greatly expanding. Most deaths 79 were golden eagles that struck wind turbines. One of the eagles counted in the study was electrocuted by a power line.
The vice president of the American Bird Conservancy, Mike Parr, said the tally was an alarming and concerning finding.
More at http://fuelfix.com/blog/2013/09/11/study-wind-farms-killed-67-eagles-in-5-years/ .
Pretzel_Warrior
(8,361 posts)zappaman
(20,606 posts)as well as flying up to a mile and decapitating joggers...
global1
(25,237 posts)Oh - I forgot - nobody is counting those deaths.
Benton D Struckcheon
(2,347 posts)...that reflects sunlight, so as to scare them away. That might do it.
ManiacJoe
(10,136 posts)TexasTowelie
(112,068 posts)There aren't any rules regarding duplicate threads in GD like there are in LBN so I'm going to leave this posted. I know that I've seen duplicates in GD previously.
ManiacJoe
(10,136 posts)My thought was to keep the conversation all together since this thread had not yet taken off while the other one had.