As Jack Dini wrote in the Canada Free Press:
"When it comes to protecting America’s wildlife, environmental organizations and federal law enforcement officials have a double standard: one that’s enforced against oil, gas and electric utility sectors, and another that exempts wind and solar power from prosecution despite evidence of a multitude of violations."It doesn't seem right to prosecute anyone for an accidental bird death but the environmental left and the US government perpetrate a greater injustice when the selectively prosecute oil, gas and conventional electric utilities while they turn a blind eye to wind farms that mow them down by the hundreds of thousands.
There’s more: In July 2009, Pacificorp agreed to pay $10.5 million in fines, restitution and equipment upgrade costs for the deaths of at least 232 golden eagles, 46 hawks, 50 owls and nearly 200 other birds that had been electrocuted in Wyoming since January 2007. The cost per bird computes to a little less than $20,000.
Power lines kill birds too. Let's sue all of them.
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