Wind Developer Admits Killing 136 Bald and Golden Eagles in $35M Settlement
Washington Examiner | April 06, 2022 | Breanne DeppischA U.S. wind power developer pleaded guilty to multiple violations of the Migratory Bird Treaty Act after its wind turbine blades allegedly killed more than 135 bald and golden eagles across the country.
The company, ESI Energy, pleaded guilty Tuesday to three counts of violations in the form of golden eagle deaths. Prosecutors said the birds were documented to have been killed by blunt force trauma after being struck by its wind turbine blades at its facilities in Wyoming or New Mexico, where ESI had not applied for the necessary permits.
As part of the settlement, ESI “acknowledged that at least 150 bald and golden eagles have died in total” at its 50 U.S. facilities since 2012, federal prosecutors said, including at least 136 deaths that were “affirmatively determined to be attributable to the eagle being struck by a wind turbine blade.”
As part of its plea deal, ESI also agreed to pay a hefty settlement, which includes nearly $1.9 million in fines, $6.2 million in restitution, and an additional fee of up to $27 million, payable over the next five years, to help mitigate future eagle deaths at its facilities.
Straight Line of the Day: Possible slogans for wind farms: …
Got Blow?
‘THANK GOD FLYING PIGS ARE’NT REALLY A THING’
We Don’t Kill Migratory Emus
Batter up.
Godzilla’s pinwheels.
Sure, our windmills are an eyesore and inefficient, the materials used to make them can’t be recycled, and it costs more to produce a kW/h with them than just burning natural gas, but Greta likes us.
RaptorSlapper…
“Butcherin’ birds while we virtue signal with our whirly-whirrrs!”
Cuisinart® of the Sky…
If you squint a little, this coveted Harvey looks a bit like a Cuisinart® of the Sky…
made of bacon!
We prefer to consider it, “Protecting prairie dogs from unexpected death from above.”
Beagle free or your money back.
Kill a what?
Only the coyote gets hurt with ACME Windmills.
100% safe for flightless birds.
We slice birds of the sky
It makes a big birdy pie
That’s a green deal.
“A big falcon deal”
— Joe Biden
Those damned birds deserved it for crapping on my Mercedes.
I didn’t know that Mercedes makes tanks.
Tanks are impractical for day to day use, and the valet always scratches my paint job.
How else are we supposed to gather enough feathers for authentic headdresses at all those Oklahoma tourist traps?
We Break Wind For Your Home*
*except when we’re killing birds, seized up, or catastrophically flying apart.
Who’s shredding down bird meats in the city? Everyone knows it’s Wind Fields!
The Endangered Species Act In Three Parts
Thunbergers, Anyone?
♫
Some whirr
Under the rainbow
Bluebirds flay
Birds fly over the rainbow
Why, then oh why, can’t they?
We put the “kill” in kilowatt hours…
Pull God’s finger.
SQUIRREL!
No worries. The “hefty settlement” fees are well hidden in your energy bills and taxes.
Maybe we do give the blender treatment to the majestic symbol of our nation, but the mosquitos remain unharmed.
A few birds without enough sense to fly around that big rotator in their flight path get their feathers ruffled, and you all want to act like we were dropping puppies into a blender.
“Shoot, y’all are acting like we disemboweled 160 bald and golden eagles in mid-flight. Can’t be more than a hunnert and fifty!”
Now how ’bout a good windy work song?
“De Clamp-Down Ladies?”
“Don’t know that one, huh? How about ‘Wind’s Low, Scythe Chariot’?”
“When you tried getting past those things, you was stinging like canaries|”
♩ Wind Energy: Cheep, Cheep, Cheep ♩
“As God is my witness, I thought Bald Eagles could teleport!”
Secretary of Energy:
Mr. President, we are rapidly approaching a moment of truth both for ourselves as human beings and for the life of our nation. Now, truth is not always a pleasant thing. But it is necessary now to make a choice, to choose between two admittedly regrettable, but nevertheless distinguishable, postmodern environments: one where you’ve got zero birds killed, and the other where you’ve got a hundred and fifty million birds killed.
President:
You’re talking about mass murder, Mr. Secretary, not energy production!
Secretary of Energy:
Mr. President, I’m not saying we wouldn’t get our hair mussed.
But I do say no more than ten to twenty million killed, tops.
Uh, depending on the beaks.
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Like a sparrow in a spiral
Turns velocity to veal
Or a parrot that will plummet
Struck by polycarbon steel
And the images unkind
Like the searches that you find
Of the windmills you don’t mind
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Whacked birds sinking in the dead of night
Take these broken wings and learn to fly
All your lives
You were all au gratin
For this movement to survive
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“Mr. Haney’s Wind Farm — Being Paid by the Gov’t Not To Grow Crops Since 1987”
You Can’t Spell “Alternative” Without “Alter” and “Native.”
Possible Slogans for Wind Farms: …
…If you like to hunt for Doves, Ducks or Quails come to our Wind Farm – no need for guns (they’re scary) , just bring your Retriever (Quails are rare as they are low flying scum).
There’s no bag limit for windmill blades, either. Wind-wind for hunters and gatherers!
— Feds
Windictive.
— The “W” Is For “Wind”!
Liberal Jack Horner
Sat on a Coroner
Beating the minced Magpie:
Struck off as dumb
Pulled off aplomb
And said “What a good ploy am I.”
Confessions of a Chopaholic
Wind Power: Definitely NOT “for the birds”
Doing to America’s symbol what the Liberals have been doing to the country for years.
Mr. Schwab..sorry to interrupt but that latest batch of Covid serum we are using in the windmills to disperse upon the winds may have gone bad…people are calling the smell the ” NEW WORLD ODOR..”…
Schwab contemplates then says..” RELEASE THE AQUA VELVA!..”