{"id":178137,"date":"2021-12-15T09:38:21","date_gmt":"2021-12-15T08:38:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=178137"},"modified":"2021-12-15T09:38:23","modified_gmt":"2021-12-15T08:38:23","slug":"eagles-go-legal-audubon-society-sues-to-shutdown-californias-golden-eagle-mincers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=178137","title":{"rendered":"Eagles Go Legal: Audubon Society Sues to Shutdown California\u2019s Golden Eagle Mincers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The rampant slaughter of\u00a0millions of birds and bats<\/a>, including America\u2019s iconic bald and golden eagles, is met with a shrug by wind power acolytes, everywhere. When confronted, the wind industry simply resorts to lies and obfuscation and \u2013 when the corpses can no longer be hidden and the lying fails \u2013 issue court proceedings in an effort to literally bury those facts (see\u00a0our post here<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Wedge-tailed eagle takes one for the planet at Waterloo, SA.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cCollateral damage\u201d: turbine sends endangered white tailed
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German crane doing her bit to help the German wind power \u201cmiracle\u201d.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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A pair of griffon vultures contemplate their contribution to Spain\u2019s wind rush.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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Spanish short-toed eagle, short-changed by wind power.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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Pelican divided on wind power\u2019s \u201cbenefits\u201d \u2026<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Tasmanian Wedge-Tailed Eagle: take a look before it\u2019s sliced to extinction.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Cars, cats and skyscrapers don\u2019t kill Eagles \u2013 like the critically endangered Tasmanian wedge-tailed eagle<\/a>, but 60m wind turbine blades with their tips travelling at 350Kph routinely smash them out of existence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For concentrated carnage, though, California\u2019s Altamont Pass takes the cake. With thousands of turbines slicing and dicing dozens of golden eagles, owls, hawks, and kites every day, it\u2019s more like an abattoir than a power generation facility.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Finally, America\u2019s Audubon Society has lawyered up in an effort to limit the slaughter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The National Audubon Society sues Bay Area county over new wind turbine project: \u2018A population sink\u2019<\/strong>
SFGATE
Amanda Bartlett
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The National Audubon Society<\/a> is suing Alameda County over its recent approval of a controversial new wind turbine facility at Altamont Pass. It\u2019s been described as a \u201cpoorly planned project\u201d that\u2019s a threat to birds and bats in the area due to its lack of sufficient environmental review, according to a press release<\/a> shared by the organization Wednesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Commissioned in 1981, The Altamont Pass wind farm was one of the first of its kind in the country and is also one of the most highly concentrated in the world, with roughly 5,000 wind turbines built over a 56-square-mile area. The National Audubon Society argued the turbines have long been hazardous to migratory avian species such as the golden eagle, whose nesting population at Altamont Pass is the densest in the world, though their numbers have been declining in the region due to incidents related to the turbines, the press release stated. Populations of western burrowing owls, red-tailed hawks and tricolored blackbirds have also been impacted over the years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once considered at risk of extinction, golden eagles have been\u00a0protected<\/a>\u00a0under the Bald and Gold Eagle Protection Act since 1940. Though they have since been delisted from the Endangered Species Act, they are still protected under federal law, and it\u2019s illegal to kill one without a permit. The raptors boast seven-foot-wingspans and are often seen flying low near the turbines in Altamont Pass to avoid wind resistance and to hunt for ground squirrels and fish, though their keen eyesight doesn\u2019t always help them avoid\u00a0collisions<\/a>\u00a0with the spinning blades of the turbines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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