{"id":81789,"date":"2022-04-27T05:53:11","date_gmt":"2022-04-27T10:53:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=81789"},"modified":"2022-04-27T05:53:11","modified_gmt":"2022-04-27T10:53:11","slug":"pay-to-play","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=81789","title":{"rendered":"Pay To Play"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:<\/p>\n\n\n<blockquote>\n<p>An individual who kills an eagle <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fws.gov\/law\/bald-and-golden-eagle-protection-act\">can be fined $100,000 <\/a>and sentenced to a year in jail.\u00a0 An organization, $200,000.\u00a0 Penalties increase for subsequent offenses. <\/p>\n<p>But a windmill energy company will be paying <a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Technology\/wireStory\/wind-energy-company-kills-150-eagles-us-pleads-83916292\">less than $30,000 each<\/a> for dead eagles, with no jail at all.\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p>Quite a deal:\u00a0 a bulk discount on dead birds and immunity from imprisonment.\u00a0 I guess that&#8217;s the price Mother Nature pays for saving the planet from global warming.\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p>Joe Doakes<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m imagining people working on wind farms playing games with &#8220;perverse incentives&#8221;, trying to maneuver the windmills to knock off eagles on the cheap.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m weird like that. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: An individual who kills an eagle can be fined $100,000 and sentenced to a year in jail.\u00a0 An organization, $200,000.\u00a0 Penalties increase for subsequent offenses. But a windmill energy company will be paying less than $30,000 each for dead eagles, with no jail at all.\u00a0 Quite a deal:\u00a0 a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy-and-the-market"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=81789"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81789\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81790,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81789\/revisions\/81790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=81789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=81789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=81789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}