California's attempts to switch to green energy have inadvertently put the survival of the state’s golden eagles at risk.I've driven through that pass dozens of times in the past four years on my way to and from Rohnert Park. It's choked with wind turbines, and frankly I'm surprised any flying thing that get through there safely.
Scores of the protected birds have been dying each year after colliding with the blades of about 5,000 wind turbines.
Now the drive for renewable power sources, such as wind and the sun, being promoted by President Obama and state Governor Jerry Brown has raised fears that the number of newborn golden eagles may not be able to keep pace with the number of turbine fatalities.
The death count along the ridgelines of the Bay Area’s Altamount Pass Wind Resource Area has averaged 67 a year for three decades.
The 200ft high turbines, which have been operating since the 1980s, lie in the heart of the grassy canyons that are home to one of the highest densities of nesting golden eagles in the US.
Just out of curiousity, I wonder how many eagles are killed every year by oil wells? Or coal mines?
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And these religious greenies will put our lives and economy at stake for some tiny little fish by shutting off the water supply to the central valley.
Guess the northern Californian birds are doing their part by being sacrificed to the god of ecology.
The birds need to get an attorney...I see a discrimenation lawsuit. Fish are being treated better than birds.
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