Weren't They Granted Blanket Immunity To Slice And Dice? Wind Farm Found Guilty Of Killing 14 Eagles, More

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December 5, 2013: Wind farms to apply for permits to kill eagles.  It will be interesting to see if the Sierra Club weighs in; if not, it speaks volumes about the Sierra Club's real agenda.
 
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Yahoo!News is reporting:

A major U.S. power company has pleaded guilty to killing eagles and other birds at two Wyoming wind farms and agreed to pay $1 million as part of the first enforcement of environmental laws protecting birds against wind energy facilities.

Until the settlement announced Friday with Duke Energy Corp. and its renewable energy arm, not a single wind energy company had been prosecuted for a death of an eagle or other protected bird — even though each death is a violation of federal law, unless a company has a federal permit. Not a single wind energy facility has obtained a permit.

The Charlotte, N.C.-based company pleaded guilty to killing 14 eagles and 149 other birds at its Top of the World and Campbell Hill wind farms outside Casper, Wyo. All the deaths, which included golden eagles, hawks, blackbirds, wrens and sparrows, occurred from 2009 to 2013.

"Wind energy is not green if it is killing hundreds of thousands of birds," said George Fenwick, president of the American Bird Conservancy, which supports properly sited wind farms.

"The unfortunate reality is that the flagrant violations of the law seen in this case are widespread."

Finally. 

Wait until the slicers and dicers bring whooping cranes to extinction. Sad.