Ivanpah Solar sets record, Bird deaths rise

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April Was Bad Month for Birds at Ivanpah Solar | Concentrating Solar | ReWire | KCET

The April stats are in for reported bird deaths at the Ivanpah solar power plant in the California desert, and it's bad news: 97 birds were found killed or mortally injured between April 1 and 29 at the nearly 4,000-acre plant in San Bernardino County south of Las Vegas.

That's a record number of reported deaths for the facility, though the increase may be at least partly a statistical artifact: sources tell ReWire that biologists from the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) were on site throughout April investigating wildlife mortality on the premises, likely leading to more stringent searches for injured wildlife.

But those searches still covered just 20 percent of the facility, meaning that one could reasonably extrapolate that total bird mortalities for April could be five times the official count. And that's not taking into account injured birds that land outside the fence, or are eaten by scavengers before survey crews can find them

Wow, biologist state that the kill rate could be as high as 500 deaths for April.

Its good thing Ivanpah is broke, I would hate to see that thing if it was fully operational. Maybe if we could get another Reagan as President we could turn Ivanpah Solar into a Star Wars Death Ray.

 

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Poor birds. Yet, you can't even steal an eagle feather without being fined out the ass.

 

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Poor birds. Yet, you can't even steal an eagle feather without being fined out the ass.

True fact, how absurd. An Eagle feather on the ground is literally, a crime to pick up if one is not an Indian, yet the USA's Tyrannical Government can kill Eagles at will strictly to make a profit for themselves as well as the selected Banks and Corporations the Government favors.