Saturday, 9 April 2022

Wind Turbines and US Eagles

It is illegal to kill eagles in the USA. FSI Energy, one of the country's largest wind energy companies has pleaded guilty to killing at least 150.(https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/apr/07/wind-energy-company-guilty-killing-eagles). FSI Energy has turbine installations in a number of states. Unfortunately, some of them are sited on the migratory routes of a number of eagle species. Birds have been killed by the spinning blades. The company has promised action to reduce the carnage. One hopes, however, that this will not be used to curtail the use of wind power. There will be much worse carnage if the global 'greenhouse gas' emissions are not rapidly curtailed. Perhaps solar power installations on bird migratory routes would be a better bet?

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