In 2015, thirty-one blue herons were found dead or dying in a tailings pond at the Mildred Lake mine north of Fort McMurray. As a result, Syncrude was charged with failing to properly store a hazardous substance under Alberta law and faced federal charges under the Migratory Birds Convention Act.
After more than three years of litigation, Syncrude has agreed to pay a fine amounting to nearly $89,000 per bird.
Birds are expensive when they’re killed by energy projects - but not all energy projects.
Today I'll take a look at the bird and bat deaths in Alberta over a seven month period in 2015, using the wind energy industry's own data.
Based on those numbers, and if the same rules were applied, I found that the wind energy industry would owe $940M in fines.
Wouldn't it be great if the slap chop blades of renewable energy were subject to the same penalties as other other energy projects when birds meet an untimely death?
Actually, hold that thought.
The public can’t afford the expensive green energy subsidies that would be needed to help wind companies pay those fines!
The law suit over the woolly mammoth that fell in the tar pit is on going. The neanderthal cave man should have fenced off the pit and covered it with a roof.
Several mammoths killed during the annual migration are to be roasted at the local fire pit today.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSJZSLs6U34
I am an avid bird watcher. …and I live in one of the most active flight paths of migratory birds in all of North America….seeing flights of Canada geese of forty or more birds is almost a daily event….and when I see them…I think of Tibet (or that family of Nepalese imigrants displaced by the earthquakes who live next door to my dear friend)…when they see the swans fly over like that they shout “LA GYELO” (Heaven is victorious)…when their landlord left them a turkey for christmas…they mistakenly assumed it was a goose and declined to cook and eat it until I explained to them that it was a big dumb meat bird that cannot fly…;-)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7Pk5YMkEcg
The unjust double standard that Skeila shed light on here is not lost on me.
Alexander Solzhenitsyn defined tyrany as being ruled by those who have no fear of God in Heaven.