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Old 08-20-2014, 10:13 AM   #1
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Default Solar Plant Incinerates 28,000 Birds Every Year:

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Solar energy may sound like it’s great for the environment as a whole – but it appears to be deadly to our feathery friends.
Right now tens of thousands of birds are being accidentally incinerated as they fly through a solar power plant in California’s Mojave Desert.
The surprising and horrific deaths are occurring at a rate of one every couple of minutes since the Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System opened back in February of this year,
https://ca.news.yahoo.com/blogs/geek...210118559.html

"Green" energy has significant costs to the environment as well. We all remember the outrage when 1600 ducks were killed in a Syncrude Oil sands tailings pond in 2008. They were subsequently fined $3 million dollars.

Apparently there are 10 plants similar to this one in the US. Should they all be paying fines of tens of millions of dollars?
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