1/2: #Energy: #Eagles: #NEPA: Wind turbines and the taking of Eagles. Drought and the aquifers. Wildfires and the courts. Jonathan Wood, PERC.
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🗓️ 27 May 2023
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1/2: Bestof2022: #Energy: #Eagles: #NEPA: Wind turbines and the taking of Eagles. Drought and the aquifers. Wildfires and the courts. Jonathan Wood, PERC.
https://www.perc.org/2022/07/26/using-markets-to-limit-eagle-mortality-from-wind-power/
https://www.perc.org/2022/08/18/designing-groundwater-markets-in-practice/
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| 0:00.0 | The environment and the challenge of the renewable energy future. |
| 0:06.6 | That is a question that comes now and again, especially because of the crisis in Europe, |
| 0:11.8 | but also because what is to be done? |
| 0:14.0 | The ambitions to anticipate climate change, the energy sources we have, and transferring |
| 0:20.7 | that to renewables, and also to other concerns about renewables. |
| 0:25.0 | I welcome Jonathan Wood, a vice president of law and policy at the Perk, a policy environment |
| 0:31.5 | and research center in Bozeman, Montana. |
| 0:34.6 | Because in a policy paper made available from Perk, everybody's agreed you can have this |
| 0:40.7 | for yourself, just click on the site. |
| 0:43.9 | Using markets to limit eagle mortality from wind power, Molly S.B. and Eman S.B. are the |
| 0:50.6 | authors published this summer. |
| 0:53.0 | However, this is an upsetting thing to learn, but it's facts and renewables energy from |
| 1:00.5 | wind, energy from the sun are part of our future. |
| 1:05.0 | Therefore, we have to take into account what it does to our ecosystem and the animals we |
| 1:10.1 | live with. |
| 1:11.1 | Jonathan, a very good even to thank you for this. |
| 1:14.1 | This is upsetting at the same time because I translated into where I live in farmland |
| 1:20.1 | Connecticut and we have a family of red, red-tailed hawks who live around me all the time. |
| 1:26.2 | They hunt, they live, they watch, and then a family of crows. |
| 1:30.4 | They are no less vulnerable to wind turbines than eagles, but your policy paper makes it |
| 1:36.5 | very clear that eagles are the driver because of the national legislation protecting the |
| 1:43.0 | golden eagle and the bald eagle. |
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