It's not easy being green

Wind farms kill 83,000 endangered eagles and hawks each year:

The Obama administration has never fined or prosecuted a windfarm for killing eagles and other protected bird species, shielding the industry from liability and helping keep the scope of the deaths secret, an Associated Press investigation has found.

More than 573,000 birds are killed by the country's windfarms each year, including 83,000 hunting birds such as hawks, falcons and eagles, according to an estimate published in March in the peer-reviewed Wildlife Society Bulletin.

It's peer-reviewed, so Science!

Each death is federal crime, a charge that the Obama administration has used to prosecute oil companies when birds drown in their waste pits, and power companies when birds are electrocuted by their power lines. No wind energy company has been prosecuted, even those that repeatedly flout the law.

The law is applied equally, Citizen.  It's just that some animals are more equal than others.

In other news of "Green" power, there's so much "Green" power deployed in the UK, and it's so unreliable (no wind power when the wind doesn't blow, right?), that the power company is going to start shutting people off:

Fridges and freezers in millions of British homes will automatically be switched off without the owner’s consent under a ‘Big Brother’ regime to reduce the strain on power stations.

The National Grid is demanding that all new appliances be fitted with sensors that could shut them down when the UK’s generators struggle to meet demand for electricity.

Electric ovens, air-conditioning units and washing machines will also be affected  by the proposals, which are already backed by one of the European Union’s most influential energy bodies. They are pushing for the move as green energy sources such as wind farms are less predictable than traditional power stations, increasing the risk  of blackouts.

So the political philosophy is leading not to building actual generating capacity, but shutting people off.  All in the name of reducing CO2, right?  And it will lead to hundreds of thousands of people buying dirty, inefficient CO2 belching generators, right?

Epic fail is epic.