Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:
An individual who kills an eagle can be fined $100,000 and sentenced to a year in jail. An organization, $200,000. 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.
Quite a deal: a bulk discount on dead birds and immunity from imprisonment. I guess that’s the price Mother Nature pays for saving the planet from global warming.
Joe Doakes
I fully (and only partially satirically) expect electric car drivers to get away with traffic tickets for running down pedestrians.
You can’t make an omelet without breaking some legs.
Years ago, when I was a small town lawyer, I constantly had people asking questions like:
If the city cuts down trees on my boulevard, who gets the wood?
If I hit a deer with my car, can I keep the meat?
Now, I see power companies killing eagles and find myself wondering what they do with the dead bodies and more importantly:
Do eagles taste like chicken?