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# Killing the Eagles to Save the Planet
- URL: https://goodoil.news/killing-the-eagles-to-save-the-planet/
- Published: 2019-07-07T01:30:18.000Z
- Updated: 2019-07-18T05:57:21.000Z
- Author: Cam Slater
- Tags: Climate Change, Environment, World, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-17 04:14

James Delingpole has rightly called wind turbines “bat-chomping bird-slicing eco-crucifixes”. The carnage inflicted on bird and especially bat populations by these whirling engines of death is well-documented. The religious fetishism of these droning eyesores is demonstrated by the extraordinary indulgences of the faithful of the Church of Gaia.

When a single wallaby drowns in a tailing dam, gibbering ferals chain themselves ten-deep to the gate. If a coal mine so much as looks sideways at a finch, eco-fossil Bob Brown’s caravan of loons descends in a shrieking cavalcade of swivel-eyed students, dreadlocked unemployables and nosey-nanas with too much time on their hands in retirement. But the cathedrals of Gaia slaughter dozens of Tasmania’s threatened wedge-tail eagles with impunity. Kill them all, apparently, and let Gaia decide.

At least one wildlife expert is calling time on the eco-crucifixes and their blood-money.

> A wildlife expert has called for independent monitoring and studies into eagle deaths caused by windfarms, warning the problem is only going to get worse as the industry expands in Tasmania.

> Under Commonwealth legislation, windfarm companies agree to “offsets” when an endangered bird is killed.  
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> Offsets include the companies paying compensation, funding research or the protection of nest sites.

Once upon a time, Christian faithful could buy a free pass out of Purgatory by donating to Church coffers. The Church of Gaia has its own indulgences.

> “A lot of people call it blood money — it’s compensation for killing endangered species,” wildlife biologist Nick Mooney told Leon Compton on ABC Radio Hobart.  
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> Musselroe Wind Farm, Tasmania’s largest, has reported 11 wedge-tail eagle deaths and one white-bellied sea eagle death since it was constructed in 2013.  
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> Mr Mooney believes the mortality rate is higher.

These are not just any old Tassie [bin-chickens](https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=bin%20chicken&ref=goodoil.news) or [turbo-chooks](https://youtu.be/QwzdARC5UTU?ref=goodoil.news), either. **These are a threatened species**. The kind of thing that brings a billion-dollar coal mine to a grinding halt.

> It is estimated there are less than 350 breeding pairs of the endangered Tasmanian wedge-tail eagles, and in 2017–18, 29 were killed by powerlines.

The problem is only going to get worse, with massive new wind farms planned for Tasmania.

> “We’re building all these windfarms without knowing the damage we’re doing… you need about 12 extra eagle chicks to compensate for every adult eagle killed at a windfarm.  
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> “There’s no evidence the covenanting process has increased production at all.”  
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> [www.abc.net.au](https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-07-04/wildlife-expert-nick-mooney-calls-for-windfarm-eagle-death-study/11274334?WT.ac=statenews%5Ftas&ref=goodoil.news)

  
The willful blindness of the green movement to the shocking ecological damage inflicted by their beloved eco-crucifixes is beyond appalling. These hypocrites spit their almond-milk over a finch but gaily ignore the slaughter of one of the largest raptor species on the planet.