Jim Wiegand Karl Hardy • a day ago
The wind industry does not fix problems/impacts. Instead they rig them so they appear fixed.
Below are some of the ways wind industry has chosen to fix their bird and bat mortality with studies rigged to hide mortality:
(1) By searching turbines that are not operational, ( 2) by searching for
bodies in grossly undersized areas around wind turbines, (3) by not searching
turbines daily which allows more time for bodies to be consumed by predators,
hidden by employees, and picked up by leaseholders wanting to protect their
income, (4) By not using trained dogs in searches which could quickly find
virtually every carcasses in a large area around each turbine, (5) By avoiding
turbines that are known to be killing the most birds at bats at a wind farms to
be included in mortality studies, (6) By avoiding searches during periods of
high usage by migrating birds, (7) By not counting mortality wounded birds that
have wandered away from turbines, (8) By not counting birds taken to rehab
centers which are later euthanized or permanently placed in captivity, (9) By
hiring industry shills to make sure that wind industry protocol is followed,(10) by not conducting mortality searches the first year of wind farm operation, 11) By letting farming practices plow carcasses into the ground during mortality surveys, (12) By rigging data calculations and by discarding very important carcasses from the data and declaring them “incidental carcasses”(12) by outright lying about problematic data such as fatalities to endangered species, and most importantly (13) By restricting formal search areas to the roads and cleared areas around turbines which also happento also be the easiest areas for wind personnel to pre-scan for carcasses ahead of formal searches, and (14 ) Pay very close attention to this one………………by not allowing 24 hour camera surveillance on turbines that would expose the truth regarding mortality.
Private buyouts of former public utilities are a gripe of mine. Utility execs award themselves with shares as bonuses, their utilities receive protection from competition and guaranteed returns via state utility boards (not to mention low interest loans,) then they sell out to a scavenger like Buffet.