Biden's decision to cancel Keystone is one the US will eventually regret.

smokinrav

smokinrav

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Yeah, it was really the freezing rain that shut down the windfarms. No freezing rain at the poles. Yet.
 
PadawanWarrior

PadawanWarrior

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farmingfisherman said:
Just another example of man deciding what gets to live and die on the blue orb.
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Ya, I'm a fan of nature. I'm in CO now so I have lots of wildlife around me and I have reported people for being stupid. Salt licks in the yard, and one neighbors kid actually shot a deer with a cheesy little bow. It barely went in, but their lungs are right under the skin and they got it just right. The arrow fell right out, but I called GFP and they came out the next day and found it dead.
 
farmingfisherman

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MICHI-CAN said:
I never saw a dead bird under any windmills after painting too many support towers in two major wind farms here and in IN. I here the tales. Never saw one.
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It happens sadly. Close friend of ours is a wildlife curator at a museum he has several raptors that were found after striking blades in the Southeastern Washington and Northeastern Oregon areas. Things are freaking huge and when they are spinning quick quite a sight to see. Had one here a few years ago go over when the tech didn't lock the blades so as not to catch air. They spun it, the blades caught the air but were locked to not spin. One guy died another ended up seriously hurt.
 
MICHI-CAN

MICHI-CAN

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farmingfisherman said:
It happens sadly. Close friend of ours is a wildlife curator at a museum he has several raptors that were found after striking blades in the Southeastern Washington and Northeastern Oregon areas. Things are freaking huge and when they are spinning quick quite a sight to see. Had one here a few years ago go over when the tech didn't lock the blades so as not to catch air. They spun it, the blades caught the air but were locked to not spin. One guy died another ended up seriously hurt.
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Sad to hear those events. Operator error. Failure to perform and confirm proper lock out procedures. And I've never seen a blade spinning at an un avoidable speed. In our 40 -50 MPH gusts. I can see it. But not as real threat. I'd worry more about the chemical laced diets of our beloved raptors.

And just a thought. Am I anti wildlife because my picture window induces multiple suicide bird strikes yearly.

Big oil talking points killing me. Walk through a wind farm and show me the corpses. Then show me the numbers for decline in birds period due to fertilizer, pesticides and power plant emissions or the mining to supply them.

I think their is a bigger picture than you are looking at. And denying a small but decent actual aid to avian, and all, survival.
 
farmingfisherman

farmingfisherman

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MICHI-CAN said:
Sad to hear those events. Operator error. Failure to perform and confirm proper lock out procedures. And I've never seen a blade spinning at an un avoidable speed. In our 40 -50 MPH gusts. I can see it. But not as real threat. I'd worry more about the chemical laced diets of our beloved raptors.

And just a thought. Am I anti wildlife because my picture window induces multiple suicide bird strikes yearly.

Big oil talking points killing me. Walk through a wind farm and show me the corpses. Then show me the numbers for decline in birds period due to fertilizer, pesticides and power plant emissions or the mining to supply them.

I think their is a bigger picture than you are looking at. And denying a small but decent actual aid to avian, and all, survival.
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Animals die all the time because of our needs. Windmills are just another in a very long list of things humans have decided we need in our lives that are harmful to other species.
 
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