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FBN’s Gerri Willis on the need to enforce regulations already on the books in an effort to protect golden eagles.
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-- campaigning in Minnesota today touting his five point congressional to do list point number four more tax credits for clean energy.
Mr.
President will bring -- spending more taxpayer dollars on yet another high in the sky green proposal I have a friend that I would like eating -- That's -- the golden eagle also known as the -- eagle.
He's a bird of prey -- -- golden -- that's forget his name you can tell apart from the bald eagle.
Our country's only other eagle by white patches on the underside of his -- is really beautiful.
Now the golden eagle mates for life and -- thirty years -- more.
-- -- -- Beautiful.
And under assault by the president's green energy policies I kid you not.
In what is the ultimate irony these gorgeous birds are being slaughtered by Windmills.
Electricity producing Windmills like the ones you're seeing right here.
Except for the golden eagle apparently which is in fact endangered species in some states.
As many as 77.
-- -- killed every year by turbines at just one wind -- in California amazing now.
Some seven.
The American bird conservancy.
The -- -- society the endangered species organization they -- petitioning the federal government to toughen up rules on wind mill operators to say.
This -- But in reality there are already enough laws on the -- every year oil and gas producers electricity generators are prosecuted.
For violating wildlife protection laws hundred -- hundreds of them that is over the past twenty years.
Laws like the migratory bird treaty act and the eagle protection act.
And here there's the double standard.
Get -- the fossil fuel industry.
They go after people who operate those fossil fuel industry plants.
When they do this but the wind industry is left -- isn't a single prosecution.
Of -- wind turbine operator for killing birds like the best not one.
And yet -- Kansas man just this week was find a thousand bucks for killing one of these experts so some people are prosecuted.
But not the favorites of the White House.
And it's not just this golden eagle -- risk even the American wind energy association admits hundreds of thousands of birds are killed every year.
And it doesn't stop there reportedly even -- are dying from sleep deprivation caused by the incessant noise of the turbines.
Now all the while wind generated electricity is -- -- by the natural gas industry you've heard about that.
Natural gas prices keep falling while the wind industry lives on federal handouts if someone making money -- -- -- It's time the federal government stop the tax credit which is causing more and more these unsightly Windmills to be built.
Let's stop protecting wind mill operators and start.
Protecting the parents.
That's what --
