Wind power is buying eagle-kill indulgences

Every operating wind power facility has a US Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) permit to kill eagles on an ongoing basis and many do kill eagles. - David Wojick

Each permit depends on eagle-kill offset rules which appear to be false... 

The offset is called “compensatory mitigation” which means the wind power facility pays the FWS or their agents to have their eagle killing offset by helping others live someplace else. 

• Compensatory mitigation is used in other regulatory systems where it may actually work. For example under the Clean Water Act you can destroy a wetland if you create an equivalent one someplace else.
• The problem is that while it is easy to verify wetland offsets, it is impossible in the eagle case. Moreover it is extremely unlikely that these offsets actually work.

The issue is electrocution...

The first problem is there is no way to know how many eagles are not being electrocuted...