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Green Activists Silent as California Moves to Help Wind Farm Slaughter of America’s Iconic Bald Eagle

by Chris Morrison
25 August 2023 7:00 AM

America’s national bird, the bald eagle, along with golden eagles and other raptors, face mass slaughter in California’s wind farm avian graveyards following the State Democrat-controlled legislature’s decision to relax controls on wildlife protections. Signed into law last month, with little protest, Senate Bill 147 (SB 147) allows permits to kill previously fully protected species for renewable energy and infrastructure projects. The move comes as the Federal Biden Administration pushes ahead with ambitious plans to increase renewable energy harnessed from both onshore and offshore giant turbines.

Local lawyer Cox Castle explained that before SB 147, no authorisation existed for the slaughter of 37 fully protected native species, except for scientific research. This meant, they continued, that the presence of protected birds on a renewable energy development could stop the project in its tracks. “SB 147 creates more certainty for renewable energy and certain other project developers because it establishes a permitting process for these species,” it notes. Cox Castle also observes that the protected species list has been “updated” with the removal of the American peregrine falcon and the brown pelican.

Of course, the avian destruction has been going on for years, with giant turbine blades posing serious hazards to large birds such as eagles that rely on air currents for sustained flight. NextEra Energy is one of America’s largest utility companies, and last year it was fined $8 million after 150 eagles were killed at its wind farms across eight states. Almost all the deaths occurred when the eagles were hit by turbine blades. Because carcasses are not always found, officials told the court that the number killed was likely to have been higher.

It might be America’s national bird, displayed everywhere on coins, flags and official documents, but few activists seem to be able to rouse themselves to complain when the natural flight path of the bald eagle stands in the way of green progress. Audubon California claims its mission is to restore and conserve natural ecosystems, focusing on birds, other wildlife and their habitats for the benefit of humanity and the earth’s biological diversity. But Policy Director Mark Lynes said he did not want to see eagle deaths “being used to push against clean energy”. Our position is that we need renewable energy resources, “but we also know that they can be sited and adequately mitigated so that we’re not causing declines in wildlife populations”. In addition, during the same interview, Lynes confirmed the scale of the slaughter of the golden eagle, noting that a wind farm complex in Altamont had been killing 75-100 golden eagles every year since the 1980s, according to the Golden Gate Audubon Society.

In total there are thought to be about 300,000 bald eagles in the United States but less than 30,000 golden eagles, mostly to be found in the West. Extermination on the scale recently identified from wind farms is likely to have a noticeable effect on future numbers. Needless to say, the destruction of wildlife by wind turbines is almost completely ignored by mainstream media, a situation unlikely to occur if, for instance, oil and gas companies were responsible for such carnage.

As the Daily Sceptic has reported in the past, it is not just large birds of prey that are at risk from onshore wind farms. Recent scientific work suggested that millions of bats across the world are killed every year by turbine blades. A recent German field study identified 55 casualties per megawatt generated. Britain currently has 14,000 megawatts of onshore capacity, although actual generation is less. Political pressure to boost this onshore capacity is growing and it would be helpful if a figure on the accepted bat butcher’s bill could be produced. For its part, the Bat Conservation Trust takes a sympathetic line noting that there has been evidence of bat collision with wind turbines for 20 years, but it supports the development of wind power. Sympathetic towards the highly subsidised wind energy business, it would seem, rather than the unfortunate bats.

Meanwhile, off the eastern coast of the United States whales continue to beach in unusually high numbers. The latest fatality was a humpback that was washed ashore on the New Jersey coast, bringing the total to around 300 fatalities in the last five years. Many suggest the deaths have been caused by massive offshore construction of wind turbine parks, with extensive sonar soundings and pile-driving causing havoc with aquatic feeding, breeding and migration up and down the coast. “This alarming number of deaths is unprecedented in the last century,” said Cindy Zipf, Executive Director of Ocean Clean Action, adding, “the only unique factor from previous years is the excessive scope, scale and magnitude of offshore wind powerplant activity in the area.”

The veteran environmentalist Michael Shellenberger has weighed in on official denials that the massive offshore building works are wreaking environmental damage. “They’re lying,” he charged, and he called the issue around the industrialisation in previously pristine waters, “the biggest environmental scandal in the world”.

Chris Morrison is the Daily Sceptic’s Environment Editor.

Tags: Bald eagleBirdsCaliforniaEco-CrucifixesNet ZeroUnited StatesWind Farms

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D B
D B
3 years ago

Who would have thought eh… told you’re exposed to a life threatening virus, confined to your house, already weak of mind and body – don’t fancy the return to work? Long Covid is the answer. No proof required.

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karenovirus
karenovirus
3 years ago
Reply to  D B

“‘Long Covid was initially believed to affect one in ten people who catch the virus . . .”

How about long Covid was initially believed to be part of the fear porn campaign because they could pin that label on any old real or imagined ailment without having to prove it.

Whenever a studio conversation was flagging the interviewer just had to jump in with

“And of course there is long Covid the effects of which could/might/maybe last a lifetime”

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D B
D B
3 years ago
Reply to  karenovirus

the key word is believed – not proven, hypothesised or examined. It’s a belief.

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Rowan
Rowan
3 years ago
Reply to  karenovirus

A short lifetime, if they follow it up with the “poison death shots”

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TheGreenAcres
TheGreenAcres
3 years ago

I’d be interested to know if there was a correlation between recipients of paid sick leave and long covid viral fatigue syndrome.

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Chilli
Chilli
3 years ago

Oh dear. Someone break the news gently to Professor Tim Spector of the Zoe app: He’s convinced he’s tracking thousands of cases of ‘Long Covid’ among the hypochondriac Zoe app users – and regularly uses them to justify calls for more draconian lockdowns and forced injections.

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TheGreenAcres
TheGreenAcres
3 years ago
Reply to  Chilli

My FiL certainly fits that description. So much as a runny nose and he’s booked his test before even reaching for a tissue.

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Bella Donna
Bella Donna
3 years ago
Reply to  TheGreenAcres

I have to agree. We’ve become a nation of ‘sick notes’ or malingerers who delight in testing themselves to see if they have a positive reading when a test cannot distinguish real infection from a previous cold. I really cannot see a way out of this mess.

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caipirinha17
caipirinha17
3 years ago
Reply to  Bella Donna

I can. Unfortunately it is much worse than what we’ve got at the moment. Not that this should be justification to carry on with the nonsense.

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Rowan
Rowan
3 years ago
Reply to  Chilli

Never did trust Tim.

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Smelly Melly
Smelly Melly
3 years ago

Employee to employer, “I’m suffering from long Covid so better have a couple of weeks off”.

Employer to Employee “No need for a sick note then and enjoy the sunshine”.

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Emerald Fox
Emerald Fox
3 years ago
Reply to  Smelly Melly

All people should be staying at home and not working because they cannot say if they are ‘asymptomatic’ or not.
Asymptomatic Boris goes to the G7 and COP26 meetings! Asymptomatic potential super-spreader Javid speaks in Parliament without a face mask!

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Paul B
Paul B
3 years ago

Long Pfizer on the other hand is not just for Christmas.

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Rowan
Rowan
3 years ago
Reply to  Paul B

And a short Pfizer is one that kills early.

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Rogerborg
Rogerborg
3 years ago

Like myalgic encephalomyelitis and most claims of Lyme, it’ll be a “disease” of the public sector and salaried employees.

Nobody responsible for putting their own food on their own table is going to “suffer” from it.

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LovelyGirl
LovelyGirl
3 years ago
Reply to  Rogerborg

I don’t know what is really going on with Lyme but I do know plenty of hard working people who have had it.

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surya
surya
3 years ago
Reply to  Rogerborg

myalgic encephalomyelitis is a real disease identified through imaging of the brain (PET scan)

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djmo
djmo
3 years ago

It actually surprises me that there’s this little evidence for ‘long Covid’. Not because I think it’s a significant problem, but because the bar is set so low that anyone with a lingering cough after a few weeks is counted. When the definition is designed to find high numbers, failure to deliver is almost impressive.

No doubt this will be widely reported by the corporate press. Right?

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realarthurdent
realarthurdent
3 years ago

“long COVID” should really be called “long lockdown”. If you work from home, get everything you need delivered to home, and don’t get much fresh air or exercise, your health and fitness is going to suffer. That’s before we consider the impact on people’s mental health of believing that there is a deadly disease everywhere and having their own government scaring the living daylights out of them.

For 18 months our governments have been telling us to do and not do certain things to “protect our health” but the things they have told us to do and not do have actually made our health collectively worse.

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karenovirus
karenovirus
3 years ago
Reply to  realarthurdent

Like forcing gyms to stay closed and keeping kiddies playgrounds landlocked shut for months after allowing Macdonalds and KFC takeaways to reopen last summer.

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Star
Star
3 years ago
Reply to  karenovirus

I agree with @realarthurdent.

But closing gyms didn’t stop anyone from getting exercise.

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Mezzo18
Mezzo18
3 years ago
Reply to  Star

Yes it did. So did closing swimming pools. Older people who have joint pain don’t walk because, if they are in pain, they have to walk back. At the gym, they can just stop and drive home. For many swimming, which puts no pressure on the joints, is the only exercise they can do.
Many younger people live in cities where walking is neither pleasant nor safe, particularly for women and particularly in winter.
‘Long Covid’ seems to affect younger people rather than older. How many of them live in city flats with no outside space?

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Star
Star
3 years ago

The false positive rate and the false negative rate for that test are what? Without that information, all “analysis” of the figures in the four columns is just pissing around.

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karenovirus
karenovirus
3 years ago
Reply to  Star

Further to an earlier comment of yours.
What hope do you hold out for a new left/right anti corruption coalition that might be emerging in Bulgaria?

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Mike Oxlong
Mike Oxlong
3 years ago

Long Covid is a load of old bollocks. End of.

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TheyLiveAndWeLockdown
TheyLiveAndWeLockdown
3 years ago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJqyKEWg6cg

Australian TOTALITARIAN Tourism Commercial – 14 Reasons to Visit!

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steve_z
steve_z
3 years ago

long covid is bollocks – an invention of people to counteract the ‘its only old people dying’ narrative

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Star
Star
3 years ago

News from Germany

The incoming government is “recommending” (that’s the word the Daily Mail use) that unvaccinated people should be

  • banned from public transport
  • banned from going to work

In the state of Saxony, the rule (get this!) is that as soon as more than 1300 hospital beds are filled by “Covid patients” (whatever that means) for three consecutive days, the unvaccinated will be

  • banned from meeting more than 1 person at a time from outside their household
  • banned from all “non-essential travel” (presumably, whether it’s by public transport or otherwise)

This, apparently, may be the position by Friday.

The reported rate per population of “deaths with Covid” is about the same in Germany as in Britain; the reported rate of “cases” is slightly higher in Germany, but the test rate is a lot higher. The proportion of tests returning positive results is also a lot higher.

But frankly, much of the stats stuff is poop, a distraction. The point is that the shutters are coming down against the unvaccinated minority in a number of European countries including Austria and Germany. Obviously the ruling scum will declare there’s a “reason” for it, and this “reason” will have numbers in it and be to do with public hygiene.

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Bella Donna
Bella Donna
3 years ago
Reply to  Star

No doubt Bozo will be eager to punish the non compliant, whatever happens I’m not submitting to these authoritarian monsters.

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Star
Star
3 years ago
Reply to  Star

Correction: the reported rate per population of “deaths with Covid” is about the same in Germany as in Britain; the reported rate of “cases” is slightly higher in Germany – the test rate is a lot lower; the proportion of tests returning positive results is a lot higher.

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steve_z
steve_z
3 years ago
Reply to  Star

Leopards don’t change their spots

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Star
Star
3 years ago

I wouldn’t be surprised if more than one virus and perhaps one or more species of bacteria too have been put into circulation, and then we have the exposure to microwaves from phones and the phone network (not just 5G), and lockdowns, and the indefinite delay of needed hospital operations…and whaddayaknow, there is a widespread feeling of chronic fatigue.

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timsk
timsk
3 years ago

Of the 18 symptoms listed on the study, I experienced at least 10 of them before anyone had ever heard of Covid 19, and I continue to experience them today! Nothing to do with the virus- even though I believe I had it in Feb’ 2020. Nah, I’ve never been convinced that long Covid is anything more than feeling below par for a while in the same way that it can take weeks to return to firing on all four cylinders after a bout of flu.

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karenovirus
karenovirus
3 years ago
Reply to  timsk

You must have had Short Covid.

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crisisgarden
crisisgarden
3 years ago

I could have told them that 🙄

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Norman
Norman
3 years ago

In my case I get most of the symptoms – I put it down to Long Life (75yo).

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Cristi.Neagu
Cristi.Neagu
3 years ago

It may be anecdotal, but I can relate to these findings. Ever since this thing started in early 2020 I have discovered, to my frustration, that I am a bit of a hypochondriac. I cannot even tell you how many times I’ve felt feverish only to read 36.4 on my thermometer. At least I go about it in a rational way, trying to determine if what I’m feeling is real or I’m imagining things (again). But I bet that there are quite a lot of people out there that assume the worse and go with it, which causes them to get tested, which then triggers a false positive, and there you go, one more non-case. And I am even sure there are people out there who secretly hope they have it, like some sort of access to a victim’s club.

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Lister of Smeg
Lister of Smeg
3 years ago

Well, well, well – imagine my shock.

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Norman
Norman
3 years ago

A friend who is 83 went into hospital with a serious illness early in the Covid panic. He was put on a ventilator for several days as a consequence of that. Whilst in hospital he contracted Covid (and so did his 84yo wife) and suffered as a result.
He still feels bad after more than a year, and is convinced that it is long Covid, despite his other infection which was life threatening.

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WM
WM
3 years ago
Reply to  Norman

Usually when the media is trying to scaremonger about long covid, they will trot out somebody who has trouble walking and breathing normally. Near the end of the segment, they will mention that the person was on mechanical ventilation for about a month.

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I am Spartacas
I am Spartacas
3 years ago

Long covid …

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lutherkehrt@gmail.com
lutherkehrt@gmail.com
3 years ago

Why am I not surprised.

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Dermot McClatchey
Dermot McClatchey
3 years ago

Long Covid is a psychosomatic illness, as is ME; as was Neurasthenia in Victorian times: psychosomatic conditions adjuvated by the social and cultural contexts in which they manifested, and progressively-defined and redeined to conform with those contexts. How depressed and poorly somebody’s Aunt Julia has been feeling for the past twelve years is not relevant.

I never thought I’d find myself recommending Susan Sontag as a source of wisdom; but people really should read “AIDS and its Metaphors” as a masterly deconstruction of the politicisation of pathology.

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LonePatriot
LonePatriot
3 years ago

MSM is trying to make fun of people wanting to protect themselves with cheap and proven drugs. Ivermectin has been FDA approved for human use since 1996. It also beats Pfizer’s new wonder drug hands down, and costs next to nothing. Ivermectin doesn’t make tons of money. So they know the Covid shot is on its final gasp, so they take it add something different to it, rebrand under another name and charge 20 times what they would for ivermectin. I cannot wrap my head around this nonsense. When I explain this to my relatives they label me as crazy and ask me if I know better than science. I don’t make up these information out of my ass. All this information is true and proven. For some people it is near impossible for them to wake up. They are comfortable in their clown world life. If you want to get Ivermectin you can visit https://ivmpharmacy.com

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ScumBag Septics
ScumBag Septics
3 years ago

Gas lighting those unfortunate enough to suffer post viral syndrome is beyond septic its ghoulish and cruel. Still, at least any pretence at .scepticism has been dropped. What a den of sad mean delusion this is.

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Simon MacPhisto
Simon MacPhisto
3 years ago
Reply to  ScumBag Septics

well – fuck off out of it then.

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Mezzo18
Mezzo18
3 years ago

Of course it is. Along with ‘ME’, ‘fibromyalgia’ and all the other imaginary illnesses whose ‘symptoms’ are actually a result of depression, obesity and lack of physical activity. ‘Long Covid’ is caused by lockdowns and masks.

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cloudster
cloudster
3 years ago

Funny how they acknowledge this could be true but covid itself couldn’t possibly be psychosomatic. Maybe it is just a poisoned system (mentally and physically) struggling to cope.

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Banjones
Banjones
3 years ago

What do they say about the Pope and Catholicism?

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Simon MacPhisto
Simon MacPhisto
3 years ago

Isn’t it strange that long covid is unheard of in the self employed.

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Backlash
Backlash
3 years ago

Everyone I know with “long covid” has had two shots of the Astra juice.

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