The article quotes the Associated Press:<\/p>\n
An investigation by The Associated Press<\/a> earlier this year documented the illegal killing of eagles around wind farms, the Obama administration\u2019s reluctance to prosecute such cases and its willingness to help keep the scope of the eagle deaths secret. President Barack Obama<\/a> has championed the pollution-free energy, nearly doubling America\u2019s wind power<\/a> in his first term as a way to tackle global warming. . \u201cThis is not a program to kill eagles,\u201d said John Anderson, the director of siting policy at the American Wind Energy Association<\/a>. \u201cThis permit program is about conservation.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n This may not be a program to kill eagles, but unfortunately, that will be the result of this program.<\/p>\n The article continues:<\/p>\n There\u2019s a basic rule of PR crisis communications: you don\u2019t use the phrase \u201cthis is not,\u201d because that\u2019s a sure tip off that it is.<\/strong><\/p>\n All of this is worth remembering the next time an offshore oil spill<\/a> kills a large number of birds, which occurs about once every 20 years.\u00a0 The total annual bird kill<\/a> from windmills is likely orders of magnitude higher than the number of birds killed from oil spills.\u00a0 There\u2019s a reason I\u2019ve referred to windmills as \u201cCuisinarts of the Sky.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n The article further reports that Congress may consider letting wind energy tax subsidies expire rather than being renewed. This would end the discussion about the eagles–wind energy cannot exist without subsides. The subsidies to wind energy are another example of the government attempting to pick winners and losers and actually only picking losers. I am not opposed to wind energy, but we need to let the marketplace decide what works and what doesn’t–not Congress and the President.<\/p>\n The liberal viewpoint on the environment has always been interesting. It is generally more about feeling good that actually accomplishing anything. I am not in favor of dirty air or dirty water, but I am in favor of common sense, … Continue reading
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