The Interior Department is stoking a conflict between green energy and avian safety, with America’s national bird caught in the middle.
Citing the dangers from wind turbines, Interior on Monday ordered the Fish and Wildlife Service to take steps that include assessing whether unintentional eagle deaths at wind turbines violate the “requirements and intent” of the Bald and Golden Eagle Protection Act.
“Wind projects are known to kill eagles, and climate extremists in the Biden admin still greenlit scores of these projects,” Interior Secretary Doug Burgum declared in a social media post Monday.
Burgum added that the department is “enforcing the Bald and Golden Eagle Protection Act to ensure that our national bird is not sacrificed for unreliable wind facilities!”
