Wind Mill Ethics

If the benefits are large enough, can any corporate decision be justified?

Some environmental corporations seem to think that their company’s collateral damage to wildlife are justified. Take the wind mills in California, for example, very noble and grandiose projects but harmful to animals. These companies have defended their projects against animal rights advocates. These wind farms are great for providing clean energy, but at the cost of being deadly to wildlife? This is a hot topic and one that is pitting global warming environmentalists against bird lovers, like the National Audubon Society (Frosch 2013). These windmills are killing thousands of birds on a daily basis. Many of them are protected or migratory species. The horrible effect

In northern California these killing fields are destroying about 30 golden eagles a year and in the south projects fewer birds are being killed, but at a higher rate, and YET, neither wind mill projects are facing prosecution. California has a State government mandate that requires utilities to buy renewable power Executive Order S-14-08 signed by then governor Arnold Schwarzenegger; they also have out of State investors who are willing to supply billions of dollars to create jobs, but there is not enough I think, the form of proper site planning to minimize these

Works Cited
American Bird Conservancy. (2011). Rulemaking Petition to the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service for Regulating the Impacts of Wind Energy Projects on Migratory Birds [PDF file]. Available from http://www.eenews.net/assets/2011/12/14/document_gw_02.pdf
American Bird Conservancy. (2015). Rulemaking Petition to the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service for Regulating the Impacts of Wind Energy Projects on Migratory Birds [PDF file]. Available from http://abcbirds.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Wind_petition_letterpetition.pdf
Frosch, D. (2013, December 16). A Struggle to Balance Wind Energy With Wildlife. Retrieved October 29, 2015, from http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/17/science/earth/a-struggle-to-balance-wind-energy-with-wildlife.html
Executive Orders S-14-08. (2008). [PDF file]. Available from http://dmg.gov/documents/EO_S_14_08_Renewable_Energy_CA_111708.pdf
Koronowski, R. (2015, September 15). Half of California’s electricity will come from renewable energy in 15 years. Retrieved October 29, 2015, from