Dead birds are good because they make Big Oil give Big Government lots of fines. Duke Energy Corporation just paid the government $1 million, as a first installment, in exchange for 163 birds killed by wind turbines.
In 2009, Exxon Mobil pleaded guilty and paid $600,000 for killing 85 birds in five states. The BP oil company was fined $100 million for killing and harming migratory birds during the 2010 Gulf oil spill. And PacifiCorp, which operates coal plants, paid more than $10.5 million in 2009 for electrocuting 232 eagles along power lines and at its substations.
Now, for the clincher: The AP article in the Hendersonville Times-News reports the Obama administration knew about the problem beforehand.
