Environmentalism is for the birds

As Kate over at smalldeadanimals likes to say, now is the time when we juxtapose:

First, a video (you need to watch this to the very end, but *** Caution***graphic imagery may be disturbing to some):

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ofoxM-tqPew&feature=player_embedded[/youtube]

(h/t smalldeadanimals.com)

Then, compare this to the self-serving bloviations of a hard-Left legislator regarding the killing of predatory birds (raptors), in which he takes a position with which I actually agree:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/michael-markarian/legislation-to-ensure-bir_b_227340.html

I am an avid bird watcher. I am also an avid conservationist (not environmentalist, which I consider to be a religious cult). I simply cannot conceive how anybody claiming to be an environmentalist can be so blind to the blight created by wind energy farms. Not only are such farms economic boondoggles and environmental eyesores, but they spell absolute disaster for birds and bats.

According to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers website, anyone found “disturbing” a bald eagle can be assessed “a maximum penalty of a $100,000 fine and/or given a one-year jail sentence.”

Does that apply to wind farms as well?