A wind energy company has pleaded guilty after killing at least 150 eagles A wind energy company was sentenced to probation and ordered to pay more than $8 million in fines and restitution after at least 150 eagles were killed over the past decade at its wind farms in eight states, federal prosecutors said Wednesday. NextEra Energy subsidiary ESI Energy pleaded guilty to three counts of violating the Migratory Bird Treaty Act during a Tuesday court appearance in Cheyenne, Wyoming. It was charged in the deaths of eagles at three of its wind farms in Wyoming and New Mexico. https://www.npr.org/2022/04/06/1091250692/esi-energy-bald-eagles Wind Turbine Blades Can’t Be Recycled, So They’re Piling Up in Landfills A wind turbine’s blades can be longer than a Boeing 747 wing, so at the end of their lifespan they can’t just be hauled away. First, you need to saw through the lissome fiberglass using a diamond-encrusted industrial saw to create three pieces small enough to be strapped to a tractor-trailer. The municipal landfill in Casper, Wyoming, is the final resting place of 870 blades whose days making renewable energy have come to end. The severed fragments look like bleached whale bones nestled against one another. “That’s the end of it for this winter,” said waste technician Michael Bratvold, watching a bulldozer bury them forever in sand. “We’ll get the rest when the weather breaks this spring.” https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/wind-turbine-blades-can-t-be-recycled-so-they-re-piling-up-in-landfills-1.1385125 Miss Netherlands contestant makes history as first trans woman to win the pageant Rikkie Kollé became the first openly trans pageant contestant to win the title of Miss Netherlands on Saturday, and she will go on to represent her country in Miss Universe later this year. “I did it!” Kollé wrote in a joyous Instagram post after her win at the AFAS Theater in Leusden. “I made my community proud and showed it can be done,” she added in Dutch with an emoji of the light blue, light pink and white-striped trans flag. https://www.cnn.com/style/miss-netherlands-pageant-rikkie-kolle/index.html Justin Trudeau Finally Makes Public Reference To White Canadians: “Stop Being Racists” Justin Trudeau has made a move unprecedented within his reign as prime minister: he actually made public reference to white Canadians. It took just under six-years for any form of recognition of Old Stock Canadians to take place. Not once since Trudeau was elected in October, 2015 has he made an explicit reference to Anglophone Canada, or any iteration thereof. This, as opposed to tacit references toward Canadian-born citizens. Here we speak of our PM’s implied branding of white Canadians as racists, bigots, xenophobes, homophobes and purveyors of genocide. Suddenly, on the turn of dime, Mr. Trudeau is asking our communities for a favour. He wants us to stop being racist. Never mind that it is this individual who is responsible for a rise in racism to levels unheard of in modern times. https://capforcanada.com/justin-trudeau-breaks-five-year-silence-on-white-canadians-stop-being-racist/ ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5hU5nLJEtE

Liberal promises will lead to four more years of deficits, each above $20 billion That’s despite new revenues including 3% tax on digital giants and luxury tax on $100,000 plus cars and boats Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, fighting for his political life three weeks away from an election, is seeking a second mandate from voters to increase the nation’s debt to deliver tax cuts and spending. In a costed platform released Sunday, the incumbent Liberals detailed a $57 billion plan over four years — worth about half a per cent of annual gross domestic product — and pledged to pay for it with fresh borrowing, should they retain power. https://business.financialpost.com/news/election-2019/liberal-promises-will-lead-to-four-more-years-of-deficits-each-above-20-billion At Bernier’s First Western Canada Visit, Cheers for Call to Cut ‘Big Fat Government’ People’s Party of Canada supporters packed into a Surrey Sheraton hotel on Wednesday to cheer, hoot and whistle as leader Maxime Bernier promised to defund the CBC, abolish the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal and pull Canada out of the Paris Agreement on combatting human-triggered climate change. The business town hall was hosted by the Surrey Board of Trade as part of a series of public events with federal party leaders. Andrew Scheer of the Conservatives, Elizabeth May of the Greens and Jagmeet Singh of the NDP made appearances earlier this year. https://thetyee.ca/News/2019/09/26/Maxime-Bernier-Western-Canada-Visit/ UCP government orders school boards to remove 'public' from names The Alberta government has ordered a number of school divisions to remove "public" from their names, and while the education minister says it "changes nothing," others are concerned about the future of public schools. In a ministerial order effective Sept. 1, Education Minister Adriana LaGrange changed the names of multiple public school divisions: In a statement posted to her Facebook page, LaGrange said public divisions can continue to use their current branding. An Edmonton Public Schools spokesperson told CTV News Edmonton it will continue to use that name, and it will only have to change its name on legal documents. https://edmonton.ctvnews.ca/why-do-it-ucp-government-orders-school-boards-to-remove-public-from-names-1.4584808 Colorado city ends topless ban after spending $300G defending it in court Fort Collins, Colo. formally removed a public ordinance that banned women from going topless in public in a win for the ‘Free the Nipple’ movement. The city decided after spending more than $300,000 defending the ordinance in court against two women who sued for discrimination that it wasn’t worth the cost, NBC News reported. “The money was just better spent on other city priorities," a F ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ikMVZZFZqc