Another example of the hypocrisy of the ESG leftA 16" pipeline outside of New Orleans leaked 300,000 gallons (about 7,000 barrels) on Dec 27th and the news hit the media yesterday.
Of course CBS news is talking up the ecological disaster as it has been reported that 2,300 fish and
32 birds died. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/diesel-spill-near-new-orleans-kills-2300-fish-32-birds-sickens-alligators/
Just to put things in perspective, lets take a look at how many birds die from windmills in the USA each year. According to:
https://abcbirds.org/blog21/wind-turbine-mortality/
"A
study published in March 2020 found that
dogs located 1.6 and 2.7 times as many small bird fatalities as human monitors did at two wind sites in California. This was true even after attempting to correct for searcher detection error, which is a standard practice for such studies.
The Erickson study reported that 62.5 percent of the birds in their data set were small birds. Taking 62.5 percent of the 681,000 annual mortality estimate calculated above and adjusting this with the 1.6- and 2.7-fold multipliers from the dog search study (and adding the other 37.5 percent of birds back in), this would translate into a total of 936,000 and 1.4 million birds based on the numbers from the two sites. Averaging the two, this would suggest that 1.17 million birds are killed by wind turbines in the United States each year."
So, 32 birds die from a pipeline spill which is getting national news coverage. Meanwhile, the best estimates suggest 3,200 birds die EVERY DAY from wind turbines in the USA.
With self-serving myopic zealots dominating the news, it is not surprising that our society is so messed up.