Big Wind's latest deceitful ad campaign

It is a fact that the FWS routinely covers for the wind industry’s fraudulent research.
Here is a perfect example of the disinformation being given out to the public pertaining to wind turbine related Eagle mortality. This two faced approach not only keeps the public ignorant but also protects the wind industry.
From the July 2014 article “Eagles killed by Palm Springs windmills raise concerns”……………
“The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service says it has received reports of 15 golden eagles killed by windmills in the Palm Springs area since 1999, an average of one eagle a year. That number, however, is most certainly a tiny fraction of the actual number of deaths because monitoring is spotty, reporting is voluntary and enforcement actions are rare.”
“The Fish and Wildlife Service estimates that on average, more than 20 golden eagles are probably killed each year among the wind turbines of San Gorgonio Pass, out of an estimated 120 golden eagle deaths annually at wind farms across California.”
Just one golden eagle death annually has been reported in this area by the wind industry with their voluntary regulations and rigged studies, yet the FWS estimates more than 20 eagles are killed each year by these turbines. What is the real toll for the last 15 years, 15 eagles, 300 eagles or quite possibly far more? This is the fraud facing every community when trying to assess mortality impacts from these wind turbines, because developers will only claim 15 and no one goes after these scumbags.
So how does the FWS arrive at their estimate that over 20 eagles are being killed each year? This information comes from the eagle carcasses shipped to the National Eagle Repository each year. Eagles killed at Wind farms happen to be the primary source for the Repository but FWS personnel can not disclose this. Also keep in mind these are only the eagles found and shipped. Many more eagles perish that are not found more die when nests fail due to the loss of an adult. . It is safe to assume that golden eagle mortality from wind turbines is at least 20 times more than what the industry reports. For bald eagles I believe it is at least 100 times more than what is being reported by the wind industry because they have only reported 6 with their “voluntary regulations”.
This very important data pertaining to eagle mortality from wind turbines has been hidden from the public for decades by the Interior Department. The Interior Department has also made sure that, “monitoring is spotty, reporting is voluntary and enforcement actions are rare.” . Since 1997 approximately 28,600 eagle carcasses have been sent to the National Eagle Repository. The Interior Department and FWS have only accounted for 85 of these carcasses. The carcass totals include thousands of bald eagles and the repository is now taking in about 2500 eagle carcasses a year. Hidden from the public is the fact that wind farms are the primary supplier for the National Repository. The Interior Department has all of this data
I encourage everyone to read about the thousands of eagles being killed by turbines and the blistering comments made by former FWS agents disgusted by this runaway industry. It is all in a recently published three part series on Master Resource ………..”The voice of dead eagles”.
NOTHING presented by the wind industry can be trusted.
A perfect example is their fraudulent mortality data produced by the industry that is being used in mortality estimates.
Decades before wind turbines came on to the scene wildlife biologists used daily searches when looking for carcasses around communication towers. They did this because it was proven to be the most reliable methodology to get accurate mortality data. Periodic searches were also conducted far beyond standard search areas checking for missed carcasses. Generally these standard search areas were as far out from towers as the tower was tall and expanded searches were conducted as far as 1 1/2 times tower height.
Today with this disgusting green industry, carcasses searches are not daily and for 400 -500 ft tall turbines, the industry doesn’t even fully search an area 150 feet out from turbines. Proper search areas for these turbines should be 600 feet out with periodic searches out even further. Anything found beyond their tiny standard search areas are generally dismissed as being incidental. I know of one study that dismissed several hundred carcasses as being incidental. Many of them raptors.
Mortality numbers given out by this industry numbers are off by at least 90 and this estimate is based upon the industry’s own data produced in their rigged studies. But since they are eliminating so much important data, with rigged methodology and employee interference, the true numbers they are covering up are probably closer to 95-98%.
There are also cases when the numbers are even higher. For example with endangered species, if no fatalities are ever reported there is no data. This has been the case of the whooping cranes. The central flyway population was growing steadily each year until about 2006, the beginning of the turbine invasion in their habitat. Today there should be about 450 whooping cranes in this population but the true population numbers are no longer given and they are estimated to be at around 175-350. This low number also includes dozens that have been dumped into the wild populations from breeding facilities.
In one 7 month industry study that I read over, I believe over 25,000 bat fatalities and approximately 7800 bird fatalities were concealed. This represents a death rate of 111 birds/MW and 357 bats per/MW or nearly 468 birds and bats killed per MW per year. This was the mortality of just 28 2.5 MW turbines in Maryland. Their tiny search areas around the huge turbines amounted to about 68% of a 50 meter distance from towers. These turbines had blades 50 meters in length and search areas should have been at least 200 meters out from the turbines. . In the mortality report for these turbines it was claimed that searchers systematically searched along predetermined in transects.
I was told something completely different by an eyewitness (written statement) that he observed on two occasions wind personnel randomly picking up carcasses from around turbines that were at the time, having formal mortality surveys. Two people were seen quickly picking up carcasses from the clear areas (roads and graveled areas) around the turbines. They were seen dumping carcasses in a bucket and driving off to the next turbine. They were not seen with a pen, no hand held devices, a computer, no notebooks, they did nothing but grab bodies and drive off.
The man even talked with them. They did not appear to be professional and barely spoke English. He also said he would be willing to testify to what he saw. This reported activity could have actually been an organized pre-scan for carcasses ahead of formal searches.
This observed activity was nothing close to being scientific and took place when formal searches were being conducted on these turbines in Maryland. These turbines are also located in the known habitat of the endangered Indiana bat. How many of the unreported 25,000 bats were of this species? We will never know and this is by design.
Here is something else this fraudulent industry does not disclose. Communication towers, buildings, and cats kill very few raptors and bats. In fact raptor and bat deaths at communication towers are virtually nonexistent. Yet the public is bombarded with disinformation and lies about these forms of mortality. In the meantime the industry’s turbines are killing millions of raptors and bats.
With the wind industry lies and the Interior Department covering for them, one would think these profiteers are saving the world. With true scientific facts, it can be seen that they are really helping to bankrupt society and are driving species to extinction.
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