Who is going to drain this swamp? -The wind industry's and Interior Department's hidden eagle slaughter

Back in 1997 the US installed wind turbine capacity was about 1/35th of what it is today. America had  approximately 2200 MW of installed wind energy capacity.  Today it is over 82,000 MW. Back then eagle mortality was important to the public and the USFWS freely admitted that wind turbines were one of the primary killers of eagles being shipped to the Denver eagle Repository. The Denver Eagle Repository at that time was receiving approximately 1000 eagle carcasses each year.

Since then the number of annual eagle carcasses being received by this facility have greatly increased. With  total numbers that are increasing by several thousand each year and this information will not be released.  I happen know for a fact that there in no easier way to find an eagle carcass than to visit a wind farm that has been built in eagle habitat. It is also why there are freezers for carcass storage on location.
When I asked a FWS agent about this data, I was told, “I checked with our repository and learned that they don’t keep detailed records of where the eagles they receive come from;”, but she did not care to disclose that the special shipping crates made for eagle carcasses are provided by the USFWS. Nor did she disclose that these crates also have prepaid overnight shipping making this eagle carcass event location data simple to find, IF there were ever any motivation to enforce federal laws that protected these species.

Since then over my expert estimate based upon obscure records is that over 35, 000 eagles carcasses have been secretly shipped to this location. This number could even be substantially higher.  So exactly how many eagles killed by turbines have been reported? How many not reported? How many eagle nests have failed because an adult eagle was killed by a turbine during the nesting cycle? How many nesting territories have been abandoned within 10-20 miles of any wind project placed in eagle habitat?                                                                                                                                                                                Whatever the truth is, I can guarantee that this industry and our government wildlife officials have been hiding well over 90% of this ongoing eagle slaughter from the public.  I can also guarantee that there is no easier way of better place in the world to find an eagle carcass, than at a wind farm built in eagle habitat.

Now after lying by omission for decades about this ongoing wind turbine eagle slaughter, last Dec. a new rule was passed in America allowing “industry” to kill 7518 bald eagles annually. This new eagle killing rule, allowing thousands of bald eagles to killed annually, was created with fraudulent research as if none of this incredible history of eagle mortality did not exist. Fraudulent research grossly overestimating eagle populations by 10 times or more grossly were also used. I happen to know that this new eagle killing rule was created in part by this industry to cover their butts because I had exposed this industry’s ongoing eagle carcasses fraud. Now this new industry rule can bypass protections and allow the expansion of thousands of turbines into the wetland habitats of America. Sadly, Bald eagles are just a small piece of the ecological disaster.

So really, if all if these all eagles are being killed with 5 year wind energy permits or 30 years permits, it really doesn’t much matter because there is no real accountability. These eagles have been slaughtered for years without permits, without accountability, without science and  everybody involved is being chocked with gag orders.  Who is going to drain this swamp?                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    I will finish by saying this………. Without the data from the Repository and without any ethical research, this industry along with the Interior Department, will continue to lie about all this to the public making any mitigation for these poor eagles, a national disgrace. In the meantime all the fraud continues and new projects providing little end-user energy, keep getting approved.