Eagles Founding Member and Skilled Musician Randy Meisner Passes Away at 77
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Red State ^
| 07/27/2023 | Manic Contrarian
Randall Herman Meisner, a skilled musician and a founding member of the Eagles, died on Wednesday at the age of 77.The band released a statement which said:Randy was an integral part of the Eagles and instrumental in the early success of the band. His
vocal range was astonishing, as is evident on his signature ballad, “Take It to the Limit.”Meisner’s musical career began in 1968 when he joined the band Poco with Richie Furay and Jim Messina. He appeared on their debut album, “Pickin’ Up the Pieces,” but quit the band before it was released owing to a disagreement over...
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A wind energy company has pleaded guilty after killing at least 150 eagles
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Associated Press via NPR ^
| April 6, 2022
BILLINGS, Mont. — A wind energy company was sentenced to probation and ordered to pay more than $8 million in fines and restitution after at least 150 eagles were killed over the past decade at its wind farms in eight states, federal prosecutors said Wednesday. NextEra Energy subsidiary ESI Energy pleaded guilty
to three counts of violating the Migratory Bird Treaty Act during a Tuesday court appearance in Cheyenne, Wyoming. It was charged in the deaths of eagles at three of its wind farms in Wyoming and New Mexico. In addition to those deaths, golden and bald eagles were killed...
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Number Of Eagles Killed By Wind Farms In Wyoming Severely Underestimated, Biologist Says
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The Cowboy State Daily News ^
| 02/20/2024 | Kevin Killough
As more wind farms are being planned and constructed across southern Wyoming, more people are raising concerns about the impact to wildlife, especially eagles. Mike
Lockhart, a wildlife biologist specializing in eagles who worked for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service for more than 30 years, told Cowboy State Daily the impacts to eagle populations from Wyoming’s wind farms is being underreported and downplayed. The projects now in development include the Boswell Springs Wind Project, the Two Rivers Wind Project, the Rail Tie Project, and the Rock Creek I and Rock Creek II projects, and the Chokecherry and Sierra Madre...
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The bird flu is killing more wild species like geese, ducks, hawks and eagles
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Boise NPR ^
| Madelyn Beck | May 10, 2022
The mortality rate in highly pathogenic avian influenza is nearly 100% for domestic poultry, but it’s killing wild birds now, too. Idaho
recently identified its first such case in a great-horned owl. Colorado assistant state veterinarian Morgan McCarty said it’s mainly affecting waterfowl, like ducks and geese. “But we’re also seeing it in owls and eagles and vultures and hawks and crows across the United States where we have never seen the levels of virus in the wild birds that we’re seeing this year.” In Colorado alone, the state has recorded several infected wild birds, including a bald eagle, a...
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Killing eagles is fine, just get your permit first-Dead birds save the world kids!
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Joannenova.com ^
Welcome to Your Green Dystopia. The wind turbines at ESI Energy killed 150 eagles in the last ten years and last week the company was fined $8 million dollars “or $53,300 per carcass”. Which
sounds someone cares about these birds. But don’t think the The Fisheries and Wildlife Service (FWS) are outraged at the deaths of eagles. The real problem was not the slaughter, but that ESI didn’t fill out the paperwork first. If they had only got their permits to kill, it would have been fine. The new FWS permitted “take” limits of bald eagles has just been increased...
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Wind energy company pleads guilty after at least 150 eagles killed in U.S.
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NBC News ^
| 4/7/22 | AP
Some turbines killed multiple eagles and because the carcasses are not always found, officials said the number killed was likely higher than the 150 birds cited in court documents. Wind
energy company pleads guilty after at least 150 eagles killed in U.S. Some turbines killed multiple eagles and because the carcasses are not always found, officials said the number killed was likely higher than the 150 birds cited in court documents. NextEra Energy was sentenced to probation and ordered to pay more than $8 million in fines and restitution after at least 150 eagles were killed over the past decade....
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Wind Farms Guilty of Killing 150+ Eagles as Joe Biden Pushes for More Woke Renewables
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Breitbart ^
| 7 April, 2022 | SIMON KENT
Proprietors of a series of green energy wind farms have been placed on probation and ordered to pay $8 million in fines and restitution after pleading guilty to killing upwards of 150 eagles across the past decade in eight states, federal prosecutors said Wednesday. The criminal case was decided against the
backdrop of President Joe Biden pushing for more onshore and offshore renewable energy from wind, solar and other sources, as Breitbart News reported. It’s illegal to kill or harm eagles under U.S. federal law. AP reports NextEra Energy subsidiary ESI Energy pleaded guilty to three counts of violating...
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Wind developer admits killing 136 bald and golden eagles in $35M settlement
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Washington Examiner ^
| April 06, 2022 | Breanne Deppisch
A U.S. wind power developer pleaded guilty to multiple violations of the Migratory Bird Treaty Act after its wind turbine blades allegedly killed more than 135 bald and golden eagles across the country. The
company, ESI Energy, pleaded guilty Tuesday to three counts of violations in the form of golden eagle deaths. Prosecutors said the birds were documented to have been killed by blunt force trauma after being struck by its wind turbine blades at its facilities in Wyoming or New Mexico, where ESI had not applied for the necessary permits. As part of the settlement, ESI “acknowledged that at...
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Bald Eagles Kill 54 Sheep at Magic Valley Farm
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Magic Vlley ^
In April, Rocky Matthews started finding dead lambs on his farm near Murtaugh Lake. At first, Matthews thought someone had killed the animals with a pellet gun. The
animals all had puncture wounds the circumference of a No. 2 pencil. It wasn’t until he saw an eagle attack his flock that he realized the true culprit. A large eagle nest has existed on his property for more than 20 years, but the birds have never affected his farming operations. Currently, the nest is home to two adults and at least two babies. “They’ve never crossed paths till this year,” he...
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Texas man indicted on 2 counts of killing bald eagles
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cbs austin ^
| unk | AP
The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department announced Friday that 82-year-old Jackie Brister, of Bend, Texas, had been indicted by a Lampasas County grand jury on the counts related to a January incident. Brister
faces additional charges on allegations that he captured and killed other protected non-game birds including several types of vultures.
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U.S. proposes giving wind farms 30-year permits to kill eagles
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Planet Ark ^
| 05 May 2016 | Laura Zuckerman
U.S. wildlife managers on Wednesday again proposed granting 30-year permits to wind farms that would forgive them for thousands of eagle deaths expected during that time frame from collisions of the birds with turbines, towers and electrical wires. The
proposed rule, like one struck down by a federal judge last year, would greatly extend the current five-year time frame in the permits required under U.S. law for the "incidental take" of eagles, including those killed by obstacles erected in their habitat. Wind energy companies have pressed the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to lengthen the terms of the eagle permits,...
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Indians, Greens Prevent Feds From Letting Wind Farms Kill Bald Eagles
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The Daily Caller ^
| Jan. 21, 2016 | Andrew Follett
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service dropped a legal appeal Thursday to reinstate a rule that would have allowed the killing of bald eagles by wind and solar power companies.
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Federal court throws out scheme allowing windmills to kill bald and golden eagles for the next
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americanthinker.com ^
| 8/13/2015 | Thomas Lifson
At last, a federal court has taken a move to limit the slaughter of our national symbol, otherwise protected by law, in the headlong rush to produce expensive, unreliable wind power, based on the unproven theory that carbon dioxide emissions lead to global warming, or climate change, or something really, really bad,
sometime in the future, even if not right now.
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