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Barbour wind power facility sentenced to $30,000 fine for bird deaths -

http://www.wvgazettemail.com/news/20160224/barbour-wind-power-facility-sentenced-to-30000-fine-for-bird-deaths

I do not believe a single word of this article and no one else should either. This entire incident should be investigated by an ethical independent outside source. I would love to direct investigators or provide questions for the people involved with the clean up and for wind personnel working on the site during that time period.  I know exactly how to get to the truth if anyone is interested.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      From my years of research into the wind industry I have discovered  that the last scientific mortality study conducted by the wind industry was over 30 years ago.  This study was conducted by a competent ornithologist named Michael D. McCrary. In 1986 he came forward with his results. From his research using daily searches with a 50 meter radius around small turbines, he estimated an annual mortality rate of 6,800 birds or 34.5 fatalities per MW, a rate more than 12 times what the industry is currently reporting,                                                           

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       Here is the study if anyone can find it...........M.D.McCrary., R.L. McKernan, and R.W. Schreiber. 1986. San Gorgonio wind resource area: impacts of commercial wind turbine generators on birds, 1985 data report. Prepared for Southern California Edison Company. 33 pp". 

What is especially important about this study as it relates to Laurel Ridge mass mortality event,  is that  McCrary also reported that these wind turbines in this semi desert habitat were killing nocturnal migrants.

It is time to revisit the reported Laurel Mountain slaughter of 500 migrating birds that took on the night of Oct 2-3 2011.  First of all I will point out that just after the Laurel ridge mass fatality event, instead of government wildlife biologists, a company named Stantec was brought in. A company that has produced non scientific bogus wind industry mortality studies for years for wind projects in Canada and the US .                                                                                                                      

Media stories reported that they picked up bodies at the substation during searches between October 3 and 18, 2011.  Really, fifteen days?   The substation is only on about two-three acres and easy to search.  It could have been thoroughly searched by one or two people in a day or two. What took 15 days ????????????.  Probably intense searches around all the Laurel Ridge turbines to make sure the mess was cleaned up.  Was the true body count in the hundreds or in the thousands?  Did this slaughter take place in one night or over several nights as I believe?                       

According to the wind industry and the USFWS, the lights and a building killed all these birds on those ridge lines with miles of spinning turbines located on a bird migration route. So why should anyone believe the USFWS or Stantec's biologists?  No one should because these are all people working for the industry and all these people are being choked with gag orders. Anything said must be filtered and approved from above.

There is a huge story here and in this corrupt era we can no longer count on the media to tell it.  A respectable editor would be very interested and would want to know how I would trap these guys with this mass mortality event cover-up. The newspaper that posted the bogus story received my comments but I expect nothing to come of it.                                                                                                    

I sent the email about the Laurel ridge mass mortality event to retired USFWS agent Sam Jojola and he had some interesting comments. His email reflects how life in America has changed for the worse.....................                                                                                                                                                                          

 Jim,  I wonder why legal briefs about sentencing in this case were placed under seal?  I never heard of that before.  

Also, it would have been a great opportunity for the prosecutors to secure restitution monies from this corrupt company that appears to be involved in malfeasance, misfeasance, and nonfeasance...

When I worked with a federal prosecutor in Reno in the late 1980's through 1992 on gold and silver operations that killed hundreds of migratory birds with cyanide leach operations, we always in each mining case investigated sought to obtain the equal amount of restitution as we did in fines and did so.  We directed the restitution monies to go to the protection and enhancement of the types of migratory birds that were killed with cyanide.  

In this wind case, they should have secured restitution money as well.  

This would be a great case for an investigative reporter in that area to delve into and see what is uncovered.