Big Green Money And Corruption Vs. The Environment
Posted: April 16, 2015 Filed under: Uncategorized Leave a comment
The US Park Service says that there are twenty thousand Golden Eagles in the western US
The most recent survey of Golden Eagles across four large Bird Conservation Regions (BCRs) in the West (80 percent of the species’ range in the lower 48 states is in these BCRs) provided an estimate of 20,722 Golden Eagles of all ages across the survey area.
www.fws.gov/windenergy/docs/Golden_Eagle_Status_Fact_Sheet.pdf
The Altamont Pass wind farm kills one Golden Eagle every three days, which means they have killed more than 10% of the population.
Dr. Shawn Smallwood’s 2004 study, spanning four years, estimated that California’s Altamont Pass wind “farm” killed an average of 116 Golden Eagles annually (2). This adds up to 2,900 dead “goldies” since it was built 25 years ago.
US windfarms kill 10-20 times more than previously thought | Save the Eagles International
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