MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
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Eagle kills now legal
By Donal on Tue, 12/17/2013 - 3:54pm |Wind enthusiasts have been known to claim that the days of turbines killing raptors were limited to a few bad years at Altamont. But in A Struggle to Balance Wind Energy With Wildlife, the NY Times - which no longer has an environmental blog - writes:
.... a new federal rule was announced this month allowing wind farms to lawfully kill bald and golden eagles under 30-year permits.
So now it is perfectly legal for them to kill all the raptors and owls they supposedly weren't killing before. Except that they were:
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http://donalfagan.wordpress.com/2013/12/17/eagle-kills-now-legal/
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