It is estimated that over 20,000 endangered eagles have been killed since the wind farms was built in the 1980's.
Maybe we could send the eagles to Texas to eat the lizards we could solve both problems.
Protected golden eagles in CA dying after colliding with 'eco-friendly' wind turbines...
http://www.dailymail...d-turbines.html
California's attempts to switch to green energy have inadvertently put the survival of the state's golden eagles at risk.
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, 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.
'It would take 167 pairs of local nesting golden eagles to produce enough young to compensate for their mortality rate related to wind energy production,' field biologist Doug Bell, manager of East Bay Regional Park District's wildlife programme, told the Los Angeles Times. 'We only have 60 pairs,' he added.
My bet is that the Eagles and oil will lose, wind and lizards will win.
Edited by Rogerdodger, 07 June 2011 - 08:32 AM.
