Wind energy becoming cheaper than natural gas

[h=1]Wind farms get extended leeway on eagle deaths[/h] [h=2]Companies can now get a federal permit for up to 30 years allowing bald or golden eagles to be killed without penalty. Previous permits expired after 5 years.[/h]SEATTLE — In a decision that highlights the clash between two cherished environmental goals — producing green energy and preserving protected wildlife — federal officials announced Friday that some wind power companies will be allowed to kill or injure bald and golden eagles for up to 30 years without penalty.


Conservation groups decried the Obama administration's new regulation as a "stunningly bad move" for wildlife, but wind industry officials said Friday that the rules from the Department of the Interior were far from a "free ride."


"Instead of balancing the need for conservation and renewable energy, Interior wrote the wind industry a blank check," National Audubon Society President David Yarnold said in a statement. "It's outrageous that the government is sanctioning the killing of America's symbol, the bald eagle."

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http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-wind-bald-eagles-20131207,0,48217.story

Stand up and cheer liberals, you got cheap energy, but at what cost. "It's outrageous that the government is sanctioning the killing of America's symbol, the bald eagle."
 
The federal Fish and Wildlife Service began issuing permits in 2009 to developers of renewable energy projects, allowing the so-called "taking" of bald and golden eagles, which are federally protected. The early permits lasted a maximum of five years, which the industry argued was not sufficient for long-term investment in wind power facilities.

The new regulations would extend the permits to a maximum of 30 years and be issued only to "applicants who commit to adaptive management measures to ensure the preservation of eagles," the Interior Department said in announcing the rules.

Kelley said the new regulations would "increase the protection of eagles and will help develop more wind farms, a leading solution to climate change, which is the No. 1 threat to all eagles and all wildlife."


http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-wind-bald-eagles-20131207,0,48217.story#ixzz2nScUxt2s
 
dear fucking idiot,

they can redesign the tops to solve that huh?



jesus you people do nothing but HATE in place of thinking
 
rabbits protest any changes, insisting that their "eagle free" condo developments at the base of wind towers are a valuable commercial enterprise that would drop in value if eagles were permitted federal protection in the vicinity........
 
why do you not want this to work?


what would you gain you fucking idiot?


it will prove a very cheap way to get sustainable energy.

why does that chap your ass?
 
in my county alone there are over a thousand car/deer accidents per year......we need to shut down highways and prevent this meaningless loss......
 
evince said:
why do you not want this to work?


what would you gain you fucking idiot?


it will prove a very cheap way to get sustainable energy.

why does that chap your ass?
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???....I didn't say fuck windturbines.....I said fuck eagles.....

how many eagles did we lose?.....fifty?.....a hundred?......we lost a thousand deer.....

and don't even get me started on racoons!.......
 
what happens when you remove them?



nothing.

the world wont die after they outlive their need huh?


no so true about other sources huh?
 
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