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Saturday, 29 August 2026

Wind turbines killing eagles cannot be ignored

 The Wyoming wind power permitting authority has a formal hearing beginning on 31 August 2026 to consider the application from a major wind project. An approval decision on this project would be premature, because a crucial piece of environmental data, the projected eagle kills from the project, is still in progress.

Wyoming needs to decide how many eagles it is willing to kill.

The permitting authority is the Wyoming Industrial Siting Council. At issue is the proposed 650-megawatt Laramie Range Wind Project with hundreds of eagle-killing turbines. This is a very large project.

The Siting Council is supposed to carefully consider the environmental impacts of the project but there is a glaring gap in their information. The US Fish and Wildlife Service (“FWS”) is supposed to predict the number of eagles killed by this project but has yet to do so. The Siting Council should wait for this crucial data....<<<Read More>>>....