Dead rabbits found at Iowa wind farm likely used to lure and kill eagles

[sandensea]

A local landowner-farmer in Delaware County, Iowa, was shocked to discover over a dozen deceased rabbits, each with their necks broken, scattered beneath wind turbines on their land. The land is leased by RPM Access, a company that owns several wind farms throughout the state.

“I don’t understand who would do something like this? I really don’t,” said Linda Slobodnik, an environmental consultant for RPM Access, according to KWWL News.

Slobodnik, who has stated that this act of violence is the most disturbing incident she has seen in her 10 years in the wind industry, believes the rabbits were used to lure in eagles or other birds to the turbines, likely to kill them as well.

Why would someone seek to lure and kill eagles, using dead rabbits as bait?

“There are a lot of anti-wind people. At this time, we are looking at new places for projects, and I am thinking that possibly someone would like us to not build another wind farm in the area,” said Slobodnik.

Despite some local resistance, Iowa has made enormous progress towards a clean energy economy, primarily through wind power, which provided more than 36% of all electricity used in 2016. As it stands, Iowa is the most wind-powered state in the U.S.

Although the dead rabbits were deliberately placed, it is true that wind turbines can kill local wildlife. It is estimated that 300,000 birds are killed by wind turbines each year. That may sound like a lot; but it’s important to see these numbers in context.

Wind power kills 1/15th the number of birds that fossil-fuel generated power does each year. Glass buildings in cities are also frequent bird killers. And, of course, outdoor and feral cats kill hundreds of millions of birds annually.

At: https://inhabitat.com/dead-rabbits-found-at-iowa-wind-farm-likely-used-to-lure-and-kill-eagles/

[Judi Lynn]

1. Absolutely overwhelming.If only motivated people would set a watch as long as it takes to catch them

and take them to authorities, they would be doing all people of conscience such a favor, and ending a monstrous. filthy criminal act against life.

Killing animals in order to kill other animals.

That land should be guarded from a discreet distance until these sadistic monsters are identified and stopped.

Hoping so fervently they won't get away with it much longer at all.

What a shame there are people this low.

I guess one would have to suspect the largest source of power in the area, as a starting place.

Maybe hanging one of those caught by his/her ankle from a wind turbine could attract a dragon.

[sandensea]

2. Right-wingers have become amazingly shameless in their sabotage

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Trying to get eagles killed (bald eagles, ideally) in order to discredit wind turbines. If that don't beat all.

By the way, I wanted to thank you, Judi, for your diligent coverage of the Argentine sub story, and of course for your tireless work in general.

It was just revealed in the Argentine press that the sub may have sunk due to an excercise gone wrong. The idea of the exercise, which Macri personally requested, was to simulate a malfunction in which the sub would be unable to surface.

The Navy had advised against it, because they simply lack the equipment to rescue a sub at depths any greater than 100 feet. Macri pressed on anyway.

What we don't yet know, is if said exercise was being carried out during the November 15 disaster. But Defense Minister Aguad, refuses to hand over any related documentation.

The opposition is trying to summon him to testify in Congress - but Macri's "Let's Change" toadies are blocking it. We'll see where this goes.

Thanks again, Judi.

[Judi Lynn]

4. So an idle, narcissistic, greedy President, much like Trump, opted to instruct the sub commander

to do something the Navy had already told him was dangerous, just because he wanted to make sure no one could ever say "no" to him, to flex his Presidential muscle, throw his weight around.

Horrible. If he hadn't buried his conscience, it would be haunting him for the rest of his pathetic life. What he did to those 44 people was done simply to stroke his own ego. Surely there was no purpose under the sun to attempt a task which most likely could become a tragedy.

Are these right-wingers all morally dead? It surely looks that way.

Defense Minister won't be accomodating any search for the answer. Looks as if that tells everyone everything there is to know, doesn't it?

This should be a warning to do something about Macri soon, just as something should be done about our own sociopath in chief.

Thank you for the updated information on what's happening to explain the murders of those courageous, special submariners.

[sandensea]

5. It certainly looks that way, Judi.

And you pointed out, if Aguad had any proof to the contrary, he would have produced it days ago - and Macri's RW media allies hould have publicized the heck out of it.

Their silence on this matter speak volumes.

You had asked me in Latin America forum if Macri was actively trying to free the 750 or so Dirty War convicts. From what I gather, he's being careful not to leave too many fingerprints; but judges known to be close to his administration are quietly doling out transfers to house arrest.

Perhaps the most scandalous such case is of Miguel Etchecolatz, the infamous police captain who managed 30 detention camps south of Buenos Aires through which well over 1,000 died (including a cousin of my mother's, who, I might add, was absolutely innocent but was detained because her boyfriend at the time was involved in left-wing politics).

Etchecolatz, who's 88 but in good enough health to still spit out threats against witnesses in court, was awarded house arrest last year after serving 10 years in prison. The ruling was appealed by victims' lawyers - but not by Macri's Justice Ministry - and he was granted the transfer a couple of months ago.

A definite flight risk, given his well-financed right-wing support network.

[NNadir]

3. Really? Wind power kills 1/15th the number of birds that fossil fuels kill?

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How does this pan out against the fact that the wind industry doesn't produce as much as 1% of the energy that fossil fuel plants?

On the entire planet, the wind industry doesn't produce 5 of the 580 exajoules of energy that humanity consumes each year. Fossil fuels produce well over 500 of those exajoules. International Energy Agency; Key World Energy Statistics

Care to do any math?

1/15 = 6.7% Now adjust the figures for the fact that the wind industry produces 1% of the energy that the dangerous fossil fuel industry produces. 6.7%/0.01. The wind industry is 670% worse than the fossil fuel industry, if in fact, your unreferenced claim of 1/15 is true.

The wind industry would die instantaneously if people had to live on it. It entrenches rather than replaces the fossil fuel industry. Without the right to mine, burn, and dump the waste of dangerous natural gas, the wind industry would be even more useless than it is.

We spent a trillion bucks on this useless temporary junk in the last ten years alone, and we are living in times in which the rate of fossil fuel waste dumping is the highest ever recorded, and the degradation of the planetary atmosphere is proceeding at the highest rate ever recorded.

I smell a rat here, and it's not a rat dumped by anti-wind "terrorists" the judge and jury here notwithstanding. r

The scientific literature is filled with descriptions of the effect of wind turbines on birds; I referenced an entire scholarly book on the topic recently in this space. Wind Energy and Wildlife Interactions

What's your guess, that all these people gathered from all around the world because some anti-wind "terrorist" threw a few dead rabbits under the whirling vanes a grotesque and ugly (and useless) wind farm.

The wind industry is a function of wishful thinking and willful ignorance. It's only function is to serve as lipstick on the gas industry pig.

The defense of the useless wind industry knows no bounds. It didn't work; it isn't working; and it won't work to address climate change. Nobody needs to strew dead rabbits either to prove it. The signature of it's grotesque failure is written in the planetary atmosphere. In the week ending November 19, 2017 the concentration of dangerous fossil fuel waste was 406.14 ppm. Ten years ago, just as the squandering of irreplaceable resources on the wind industry began to reach amounts of over $100 billion US/year, the figure was 382.99 ppm in the same week.

Heckuva job wind apologists; heck of a job.

A scientist is a person who looks at data to refute or confirm a theory. The data here is pretty clear. The ever more tortured defenses of so called "renewable energy" - the name is a joke by the way since it is hardly "renewable" - is strictly and totally involved with dogmatic belief.

The wind industry is a crime against all future generations, not only because it encourages the use of dangerous natural gas, but because it is environmentally unacceptable on its own.