Today’s feature is a cross-post from Taking Back North Dakota at SayAnythingBlog.  Rob Port is the author.

SUBSIDIZING THE MURDER OF AN ENDANGERED SPECIES 

North Dakota may be, as the politicians often tell us, the “Saudi Arabia of wind energy,” but we’re also part of a migratory corridor for the endangered whooping crane.

A world’s-largest scale wind farm proposed for Oliver and Morton counties could snare and kill a migrating endangered species.

Whooping cranes pass through those counties flying between northern Canada and Texas and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is concerned that an explosion of wind farms up and down the Great Plains’ flyway will further endanger the rare birds.

The irony here is delicious when you consider that the greenies, the very same people who would be upset at the loss of a species like the whooping crane, are the very same people who saddled us with the tax subsidies that are driving said “explosion of wind farms.”