French court orders shut down of wind turbine for a year because it killed a golden eagle – and wind turbines cause a shortage of… drum roll… WIND!
From here (h/t Expose-news.com):
The Blade Stops Here: France Holds Wind Industry Accountable at Last – Watts Up With That?
“The recent shutdown of the Bernagues wind farm in Hérault, France, marks a long-overdue reckoning with the lethal impacts of wind energy on wildlife—particularly raptors like the golden eagle. On April 9, 2025, a French court ordered the entire site to cease operations for one year following the confirmed death of a golden eagle, a protected species, that collided with one of the farm’s turbine blades in January 2023. The decision also slapped Energie Renouvelable du Languedoc (ERL), the farm’s operator, with a €200,000 fine, half of which was suspended, and imposed an additional €40,000 fine on the company’s director.”
The environmentalists in the US are silent.
From here:
The Dark Realities of Wind Energy
Apparently, wind shortages are occurring because of wind turbines.
You can access the podcast via SubStack and the agenda here:
(100) The Dark Realities of Wind Energy - by Stu Turley
Highlights of the Podcast
00:01 - Introductions
02:00 - Irina Slav on Grid Instability
06:49 - Tammy Nemeth on UK Wind Strategy
10:00 - LNG Contracts & Europe's Shift
12:25 - Chinese Involvement & Grid Security
15:54 - Europe's Nuclear Power Plants Are Being Sidelined by Green Power Surge
19:09 - Offshore Wind in the U.S. Halted
24:25 - Wildlife Harm from Wind Turbines
27:26 - Morocco-UK Energy Cable Critique
30:46 - Wind Turbines & Local Climate Impact
35:27 - U.S. Wind Turbine Reclamation Crisis
40:05 - Carbon Offsets as Future Wind Revenue
44:28 - ASK YOUURSELF! - Can Canada Endure, or Afford, Carney’s Costly Climate Vision That Risks Another “Lost Liberal Decade” of Economic Stagnation? - Tammy Nemeth and Ron Wallace
46:02 - Chasing the wind: The value of wind generation in a low-emission nuclear and hydro-dominant grid - the case of Ontario
47:56 - Interior Announces Eleventh National Outer Continental Shelf Oil and Gas Leasing Program
48:37 - Trump Officials Weigh Earth Day Move Against Green Groups
51:14 - Europe's power firms lift emissions as clean output falls
57:25 - To Be or Not to Be - Russian LNG Revisited
59:15 - Clean Energy Projects in the United States have been lost in the wind to the tune of $8 Billion - But how much cheaper will our electricity?
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Onwards!!!
The price paid in materials required to manufacture them is mind boggling, not to mention the energy requirements in producing the materials, plus the energy needed to kick-start the damn things.
And let's not forget how short lived the monstrocities are, so require more materials to replace them, the loop of despair closed. Smh.
Wind shortage? Is sunshine shortage from solar panels next? Weird. Just weird.