Energy company to pay up to $35 million after turbines killed eagles

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An American wind energy company has admitted to killing at least 150 bald and golden eagles, most of which were fatally struck by wind turbine blades, federal prosecutors said.

ESI Energy pleaded guilty Tuesday to three counts of violating the Migratory Bird Treaty Act (MBTA) after eagles died at three of its facilities in Wyoming and New Mexico, according to a statement from the Justice Department.

The MBTA prohibits killing, capturing or transporting protected migratory bird species without a permit.

“For more than a decade, ESI has violated those laws, taking eagles without obtaining or even seeking the necessary permit,” Assistant Attorney General Todd Kim of the Justice Department’s Environment and Natural Resources Division said in the statement.

As part of a plea agreement, ESI was sentenced to more than $8 million in fines and restitution and five years of probation. The company has also agreed to implement up to $27 million in measures to minimize future eagle injuries and deaths, the prosecutors said without detailing what that would entail.

Prosecutors said ESI will pay $29,623 for each bald or golden eagle killed by its turbine blades in the future.

The company has three years to apply for permits for any unavoidable killing of eagles, according to the statement.

Energy company to pay up to $35 million after turbines killed eagles

Wind farms are nothing but a blight everywhere they are.

 

[Grumblenuts]

Long outdated design is the problem. Mine could produce more power with less diameter and no spinning blades. Even a hundred or so of the new Chinese, DIRT CHEAP vertical axis jobs would easily beat any of stupid, oversize, over costly, over complicated pieces of crap they continue building everywhere today.

 

[White 6]

An American wind energy company has admitted to killing at least 150 bald and golden eagles, most of which were fatally struck by wind turbine blades, federal prosecutors said.

ESI Energy pleaded guilty Tuesday to three counts of violating the Migratory Bird Treaty Act (MBTA) after eagles died at three of its facilities in Wyoming and New Mexico, according to a statement from the Justice Department.

The MBTA prohibits killing, capturing or transporting protected migratory bird species without a permit.

“For more than a decade, ESI has violated those laws, taking eagles without obtaining or even seeking the necessary permit,” Assistant Attorney General Todd Kim of the Justice Department’s Environment and Natural Resources Division said in the statement.

As part of a plea agreement, ESI was sentenced to more than $8 million in fines and restitution and five years of probation. The company has also agreed to implement up to $27 million in measures to minimize future eagle injuries and deaths, the prosecutors said without detailing what that would entail.

Prosecutors said ESI will pay $29,623 for each bald or golden eagle killed by its turbine blades in the future.

The company has three years to apply for permits for any unavoidable killing of eagles, according to the statement.

Energy company to pay up to $35 million after turbines killed eagles

Wind farms are nothing but a blight everywhere they are.

 

[elektra]

Progress begins after the democrats destroy the world

 

[petro]

All that money will not bring a single dead Eagle back.

So the question becomes, who pockets it?

 

[Mac-7]

All that money will not bring a single dead Eagle back.

So the question becomes, who pockets it?

True

but the surviving family members will never have to search for food again

and they get their own private jets

 

[The Sage of Main Street]

All that money will not bring a single dead Eagle back.

So the question becomes, who pockets it?

Handouts for the Handsome

Gimme it! Suddenly, I identify as the ghost of an eagle.

 

[Woodznutz]

Long outdated design is the problem. Mine could produce more power with less diameter and no spinning blades. Even a hundred or so of the new Chinese, DIRT CHEAP vertical axis jobs would easily beat any of stupid, oversize, over costly, over complicated pieces of crap they continue building everywhere today.

I agree. Vertical axis is the way to go, esthetically as well.

 

[Woodznutz]

All that money will not bring a single dead Eagle back.

So the question becomes, who pockets it?

Aren't eagles a renewable resource?

 

[Woodznutz]

I agree. Vertical axis is the way to go, esthetically as well.

Although I would design one with a wider diameter, slower speed but much more torque, more effective in slower wind speeds.

 

[Cardinal Carminative]

Aren't eagles a renewable resource?

That actually was pretty funny. I hate that I laughed at that.

 

[elektra]

I agree. Vertical axis is the way to go, esthetically as well.

except of course, those have already failed as well. obsolete inefficient expensive build so that rich get richer and we remain poor

 

[Woodznutz]

except of course, those have already failed as well. obsolete inefficient expensive build so that rich get richer and we remain poor

More research needed on them.