Power company PacifiCorp will cough up $2.5 million in fines after its Wyoming wind farm was found to have killed 38 golden eagles and 336 other protected birds.
The Justice Department prosecuted the company’s green energy project, asserting that the company failed to build the windmills in a way that would minimize the threat to endangered birds.
“PacifiCorp Energy built two of its Wyoming wind projects in a manner it knew would likely result in the deaths of eagles and other protected birds,” said Sam Hirsch, Acting Assistant Attorney General for the Justice Department’s Environment and Natural Resources Division in a statement in December.
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3 comments:
can't have it both ways. green energy or save the birds; which will it be...lol
What I find to be most disturbing is the Government hypocrisy here.
Certainly the Government HAD to approve and be integral in the design, permitting and construction of this project which included collecting a lot of money for said "permits".
THEN, they turn around and sue for killing birds? Millions more collected?
Unbelievable.
Pioneer Green admits that eagles would be killed in Somerset county and few people seem to have any problem with it. Maybe they will be on the receiving end of one of these hefty fines in the future. Better yet maybe they should not build them in the first place.
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