The Debate on impact of wind turbines on birds continues because of rigged studies

On June 7th the AP story "Debate on impact of wind turbines on birds continues"was published.  Back in April I interviewed with the author of this article Jeremy Thomas for about 3 hours over the phone. This was supposed to be a story that would expose Altamont. It was not and critical information pertaining to this story that I stressed be in this article was avoided.                                                                                  

At the end of the interview I also asked Jeremy Thomas as a courtesy to let me know when the story would be published and to let me respond to the deceptive statements he would hear from the industry. He did neither.

One of the things I stressed over and over to Jeremy was that there has never been one scientifically sound or credible mortality study ever conducted at Altamont. I told Jeremy all of Altamont's mortality studies have used various tricks and methodologies designed to hide true turbine mortality. From the interview I had a feeling this article was going to end up one sided and that is exactly why I had a video published May 27th on YouTube. It is called "Cheeseburgers and the wind industry." On May 27th I sent Jeremy a link to the video.

The video shows very clearly how quickly and efficiently species like ravens can make bodies from around wind turbines disappear. By seeing this viewers would understand the fraud and absurdity of the  30-50 day search intervals used with Altamont's illusionary mortality research.

I also told Jeremy that because of the lengthy search intervals and other industry tricks being used, the Altamont Wind resource Area was probably killing over 50,000 birds and bats a year.

We also discussed the Audubon Settlement and the use of bogus studies at Altamont. All of this was left out of the Article.

For those that will not accept the fact that the wind industry manufactures these studies to suit their purposes, here is another very clear example of some the rigging being used at Altamont.

The Smallwood studies published in 2004 determined that the small old turbines at Altamont were killing thousands of eagles, hawks, owls and other birds each year. Between 1998-2003 these Altamont studies with ridiculous search intervals produced 1189 bird carcasses and 90% of these carcasses were determined not to be wind farm related. In other words about 120 of the carcasses found by researchers were dismissed from the turbine mortality data.

In the later 2005-2010 study used to assess the reduction in raptor mortality by 50% for the Audubon settlement and repowering agreement, 6133 carcasses (over 5 times) were found during similar searches and more than 1500 (over 10 times more) carcasses were dismissed from the data. This total also includes 21 additional dismissed eagles picked up the WRRS.

Audubon approved these studies even though far more carcasses were found and  more were dismissed from the data in the later studies than all the combined carcasses found during the Altamont Smallwood studies.

This statement from the article warrants a Grand Jury investigation into this fraudulent industry...................."But the counts indicate that 44 percent of the deaths over the past three years of the study occurred while turbines were not operating, leading some to hypothesize that other factors, including natural causes, predators and even rat poison, might be to blame."

Bird carcasses do not just litter rural landscapes. How about one of those "other factors" being that these carcasses were either launched upon impact by operating turbines, were put their by industry shills or that they are some of the wandering wounded dying FROM TURBINES throughout the Altamount Wind Resource Area. Of course pure untampered  24 hour video surveillance around turbines would easily answer all questions or doubts.

These people will say anything then get the media to print it and expect gullible fools to believe it. They got away with it for decades but no more and that is why I educate people about this terrible industry.

It is time for an honest Judge to step in and release everyone hiding behind their BS gag orders. Then demand that the USFWS and Altamont Management to present a list of every eagle, falcon or other species of special interest picked up from around the turbines and shipped off to Government Repositories.

If the public had this information they would want to topple every one of these propeller style turbines in the wind industry's killing fields.

The fact is that the public will never know how many birds are being killed and how many eagle carcasses have been picked up and shipped from around Altamont until turbines are monitored daily using honest scientific methodology. But this will not change because the Interior Department actually allows the wind industry's rigged studies. They have given the wind industry voluntary regulations with virtually NO
CONSEQUENCES. The FWS also does not report to the public what the pick up at wind projects  and since 1997 agents have been shackled with gag orders that if broken, carry 3 year prison terms.

Getting the truth out about Altamont and the wind industry's bogus research is important because as the public is being fed misinformation in the media this industry is very hard at work rigging new laws in D.C. that absolves them for their past, present and future wind turbine slaughter. A slaughter that will drive many species to extinction.  One of these hatched plots is H.R.493 CLEAN Energy Producers Act of 2015.