Proposed wind farm imperils falcons, other threatened species

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Saturday January 29, 2011 · 9:45 PM PST

2011/01/29 · 21:45

Proposed New Hampshire wind farm imperils falcons, other threatened species. New Hampshire IBERDROLA/Audubon involved

Groton, New Hampshire 1/29/11

Possible collusion and fraudulent Environmental Impact studies may be paving the way for the $120 million Groton Wind Project to move forward despite very real danger to threatened species, including the Peregrine Falcon. Mortality would come from falcons colliding with the turbine blades as well as the environmental degradation caused by the construction.

Deadline to approve or deny the project is April 26, 2011.

The Environmental Impact study was conducted jointly and prepared by Stantec Consulting Inc., and the Audubon Society of New Hampshire Conservation Department. Recent review of the study by raptor expert and biologist Jim Wiegand revealed glaring flaws in the methods and conclusions of the Falcon Survey.

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Wednesday November 11, 2009 · 9:10 AM PST

2009/11/11 · 09:10

Daffy's Pet Soup-Kitchen has helped thousands of pets and their families stay together during tough times . . . Now Daffy's needs YOUR help to continue it's mission.

I’m posting this plea as a favor to assist Daffy's Pet Soup-Kitchen -- a very worthwhile charity which helps people keep their pets by offering free pet food and access to affordable vet care.

This place is 'for real'.
Daffy's Pet Soup-Kitchen

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Sunday September 27, 2009 · 11:24 AM PDT

2009/09/27 · 11:24

Since fossil fuels are, in fact, running out, it seems senseless to keep arguing about climate change. The point is, whether or not you care to believe the evidence under our noses, what we need to be concentrating on is finding new, clean, renewable, eco-friendly energy sources.

The only possible reason I can come up with to make otherwise rational and intelligent people bury their heads in the sand and refuse to acknowledge that we need to re-think our way of life, is fear; fear of change; fear of inconvenience; fear of having to take responsibility; fear of having less money. Mostly, though, fear of facing the truth. Whether or not you believe that climate change is happening or that it is caused by man (and our use of fossil fuels) the undeniable truth is that fossil fuels are running out.

Period.

Oil, coal, and natural gas reserves are finite, and they are almost exhausted. Read this report for the sobering truth and do check out the links at the end of the article.

fossil fuels are, in fact, running out

http://ecoworldly.com/...

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Friday September 04, 2009 · 2:50 PM PDT

2009/09/04 · 14:50

Study-group of wolves in Alaska being targeted -- legally-- by hunters.

Starting September 1st the hunting season opened in Alaska, and sportsmen are allowed to kill up to TEN wolves each.

While things are certainly bad enough for beleaguered wolves in Idaho’s Northern Rockies, in Alaska, flawed ‘predator control’ and hunting laws/game policies are endangering a group of well-known and beloved study-animals – while they are trying to raise their pups.

http://www.allvoices.com/...

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Thursday August 20, 2009 · 8:58 PM PDT

2009/08/20 · 20:58

(reprinted verbatim by request of Daffy's Pet Soup Kitchen for fundraiser happening 8/21/09)

Dogster member Christy is a volunteer for a wonderful organization, Daffy’s Pet Soup Kitchen, which provides food to pet owners who can no longer afford to feed their pet.

Daffy’s has hooked up with the Making Of Miracle Stories Rescue Group for a puppy caravan. Since Christy is directly involved and knows much more about it than I do she was kind enough to write something up on the upcoming event

Daffy’s Pet Soup Kitchen welcomes and supports the Georgia Puppy Caravan. You’ve read blogs on Dogster about Daffy’s Pet Soup Kitchen, a pet food bank in Lawrenceville, GA.

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Monday August 17, 2009 · 9:31 PM PDT

2009/08/17 · 21:31

The first thing I’d like you to do is to follow the link to my homepage and view the slideshow. Look at the pictures. Really look at them.

This is the ugly, dirty secret of the powerful prop-turbine wind industry. It’s the sorry story that you won’t see on the ‘feel-good’ TV commercials or read about in industry-sponsored ads and skewed ‘research’ papers. The employees at wind farms have been instructed to not talk about the staggering numbers of dismembered bodies accumulating at the bases of these turbines. There is big money invested here, and big profits. When people have large investments, they do what they need to in order to justify and protect that investment.

Even if it’s wrong.

Please read the rest on my home page; http://www.examiner.com/...

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Friday August 14, 2009 · 11:46 PM PDT

2009/08/14 · 23:46

On July 29, 2009, new legislation was introduced to the US Congress to help stop what can only be termed ‘barbaric and unsound’ wolf control measures.

There is currently a frighteningly single-minded campaign to devastate Alaska’s wolf and bear populations. The reason? To provide more moose and caribou for non-essential hunters, like non-resident trophy hunters and the dramatically increasing guiding industry. No matter what else you might hear from those opposing it, it’s so hunters have more game to shoot.

The1971 Federal Airborne Hunting Act was passed, originally, to prohibit the aerial gunning of wildlife by citizens. A loophole is being exploited by the well funded sporting caucus including the Pope and Young Club and Safari Club International, to use aircraft in order to harass, chase, wound and kill wolves and bears. These groups don’t want to limit human harvest – they want to get rid of the competition instead. Please read the entire story on my web page; http://www.examiner.com/...

Plankton crucial for ocean mixing: More reasons why we need to respect nature's order

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Wednesday August 05, 2009 · 10:19 PM PDT

2009/08/05 · 22:19

Every day we see more complexity in the vast, intricate tapestry that makes up this spinning sphere we call Earth. It’s really quite humbling. There are connections between things that we’d never suspect. Once we see them, though, it’s so obvious we wonder how we could have missed them.

Take, for instance, findings from this report just released from the National Science Foundation.

Researchers John Dabiri, a Caltech bioengineer and Caltech graduate student Kakani Katija, have discovered that the tiniest creatures in the ocean (plankton, krill, copepods and jellyfish) mix enormous quantities of water as they migrate and move up and down through the layers of the sea.

http://www.examiner.com/...

Earth experiencing sixth great mass extinction; this one may be caused by humans

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Friday July 31, 2009 · 4:43 PM PDT

2009/07/31 · 16:43

While everyone realizes that there have been mass extinctions in the past, most famously one that included the demise of the dinosaurs, few realize that, right now, we are in the midst of an equally cataclysmic event; the sixth great mass-extinction in the planet’s history.
This one may be turning into the largest – and fastest – extermination of life ever recorded, to the tune of about 30,000 species per year, according to Paleontologist Dr. Niles Eldredge.
That’s three per hour. This time, it may be our fault.
http://www.allvoices.com/...

Obama administration clear-cutting Tongass National Forest with taxpayer money!

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Wednesday July 29, 2009 · 9:31 PM PDT

2009/07/29 · 21:31

This amounts to a National Emergency for conservation efforts.

In an appalling turnabout, the Obama administration has sold out America’s national treasure, the magnificent Tongass National Forest, in SE Alaska, to the logging industry.

The loggers and chainsaws are in Tongass National Forest now. There is no time to waste in getting this betrayal of the American people stopped. Just hours after heroically overturning the flawed Bush-era logging plan known as WOPR, according to Greenpeace, plans were approved to sacrifice the national heritage of millions of Americans, not to mention the world, for the financial gain of a few.
http://www.allvoices.com/...

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Obama administration clear-cutting Tongass National Forest with taxpayer money!