Providing Trump facts he needs on wind and solar

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Providing Trump facts he needs on wind and solar

By
Craig Rucker
|
February 18th, 2025
 
The Trump Administration is hard at work returning sound energy policy to America.

CFACT has been researching and educating policymakers and the public on climate and energy issues for decades.

CFACT scholars are providing Administration officials with the hard facts and policy heft they need to turn our energy economy around.

Doug Burgum is America’s new Secretary of the Interior.  Take a look at our coalition letter to Secretary Burgum.

President Trump’s executive order on wind turbines was a major leap forward, however as always, the devil is in the details.  The EO may leave room for wind profiteers such as Virginia’s Dominion Energy to slip more monstrous turbines through the legal cracks and onto our coast.

https://www.cfact.org/2025/02/18/providing-trump-facts-he-needs-on-wind-and-solar/

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Need to count all the birds killed by solar and wind schemes. 

This article published in 2011 indicated 440,000 birds are killed by wind farms, and there are several times as many wind turbines present now, meaning it may be in the millions.

Fine them as much as each bird cost oil companies, which can be up to $15,000 per incident and jailtime.

The wind industry will cease to exist


Oil Companies Prosecuted for Avian Deaths but Wind Companies Kill Birds With Impunity
September 7, 2011 · American Bird Conservancy

The United States Attorney in North Dakota has charged seven oil companies in seven separate cases with violation of the Migratory Bird Treaty Act for the illegal killing of 28 migratory birds. Yet, American Bird Conservancy – the nation’s leading bird conservation organization – reports that the wind industry, despite killing more than 400,000 birds annually, has yet to face a single charge.

The oil-related bird deaths, which included members of twelve different species, occurred between May 4 and June 20, 2011. The statutory maximum sentence for violation of the Migratory Bird Treaty Act is six months in federal prison and a $15,000 fine. The date for the initial appearances for the seven companies is set for September 22, 2011, in United States District Court, Bismarck, North Dakota.

“I commend the Fish and Wildlife Service and the Justice Department for enforcing the law in these cases. Oil pits are a known hazard to birds and the solutions to prevent these bird deaths are straightforward to implement,” said American Bird Conservancy President George Fenwick. “It is perplexing that similar prosecutions have yet to be brought against the operators of wind farms. Every year wind turbines kill hundreds of thousands of birds, including eagles, hawks, and songbirds, but the operators are being allowed to get away with it. It looks like a double standard.”

The Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) estimated in 2009 that about 440,000 birds were being killed by wind turbines. With an anticipated twelve-fold wind energy build-out by the year 2030, bird mortality is expected to dramatically increase in the coming years, absent significant changes in the way wind farms are sited and operated. Based on studies, one wind farm in California is estimated to have killed more than 2,000 eagles, plus thousands of other birds, yet no prosecution has been initiated for violations of federal laws protecting birds. The FWS is presently contemplating enacting voluntary – not mandatory – guidelines for the siting and operation of wind farms.
https://abcbirds.org/news/oil-companies-prosecuted-for-avian-deaths-but-wind-companies-kill-birds-with-impunity/