Government Hides Wyoming Wind Turbine Bird Deaths

The first wind farm to be fined for killing a Golden Eagle was in Casper, Wyoming.

The wind farm was fined for the kill, which sent a panic through the environmental movement and the wind farm industry.

After that incident, the Obama administration handed out permission for wind farms to kill birds and bats, even rare ones, for several years per wind turbine.

From then on, windfarm bird kills were noted, but nothing was done about them.

This "privilege" is not handed out to the oil and gas industries. Very much the opposite, in fact.

This news video below on this topic was from Wyoming.

The more wind farms constructed the more the kill increases.

The federal government is tracking the kill rate of wind farms.

The number of birds killed would be higher than what we find at the base of a wind turbine. Birds can land far away or get dragged away by scavengers.

But the FWS refuses to release the numbers.

Every wind-killed eagle is quickly reported to the federal Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS).

Every year each site also submits an annual kill report to FWS.

But the data is just collected. It is never studied and realised to the press or the public.

Forget going in yourself and looking up the data. You can't.

Wyoming-based Albany County Conservancy (ACC) sent FWS a Freedom Of Information Act (FOIA) request for some very specific kill data from four wind projects.

FWS responded and said ACC could only see 256 pages or 22% of the 1156 pages that corresponded to their query.

The other 910 pages were secret. The available 22% did not begin to answer their questions.

Why is this wind kill data secret?

Every wind site has a permit to kill up to a specified number of eagles a year, for preventive action must be taken.

If the numbers are never known, then action will never be taken.