Democrats and their media allies spent years trying to cover this up.
But the truth came out in the most horrifying fashion.
And Barack Obama was sweating bullets after this gruesome crime he funded was exposed.
Photos Show What Obama's Wind Turbine Did
The University of Minnesota operates a wind energy research station in Dakota County that Obama's Department of Energy funded with a $7.9 million grant in 2010.
The turbine was part of Obama's $90 billion green energy spending spree through his bloated stimulus bill.
Photos obtained by Fox News Digital captured the moment the turbine struck an American bald eagle.
The collision dismembered the bird into three pieces, leaving a bloodied carcass scattered across the ground.
Technicians discovered the lower torso and tail first.
More than a month passed before they found the eagle's head and wings.
The Department of the Interior hit the university with a $14,536 fine for committing a federal crime.
Killing a bald eagle without a permit is a crime under the Bald and Golden Eagle Protection Act.
The university operated the turbine without an "incidental take permit" and now faces the consequences.
Here's the kicker.
The university knew bird collisions were a danger and was actively testing collision detection sensors when the eagle was killed.
Trump Administration Ends Free Pass for Wind Companies
The Obama-Biden years gave the wind industry a sweetheart deal to kill bald eagles with virtually zero accountability.
Obama extended permits in 2016 allowing wind farms to accidentally kill eagles for up to 30 years.
Wind companies weren't required to report eagle deaths because the data was considered a "trade secret."
President Trump ended that scam when he returned to office.
Interior Secretary Doug Burgum made it clear the free ride is over.
"America's bald eagles are a national treasure, not collateral damage for costly wind experiments," Department of the Interior spokesman Matthew Middleton stated.
The Trump Administration is "enforcing the law to protect these iconic birds and demand accountability from an industry that has jeopardized these protected species."
Wind turbines kill an estimated one million birds every year in the United States according to the American Bird Conservancy.
Wind energy company ESI Energy pleaded guilty in 2022 to killing at least 150 bald and golden eagles at 50 facilities since 2012 and paid $8 million in fines.
The Fish and Wildlife Service fined wind energy company Ørsted $32,340 in January for two bald eagles killed by turbines in Nebraska and Illinois.
Obama's green energy legacy comes with a mounting body count of America's national bird.
Trump Calls Wind Turbines "A Bird Graveyard"
"You want to see a bird graveyard? Go under a windmill someday. You'll see more birds than you've ever seen in your life," Trump said during a 2019 speech.
Democrats lecture Americans about protecting the environment while wind turbines slaughter birds on an industrial scale.
Doug Burgum exposed the fraud in June when he called green energy the "green new scam" that was "pro-China" and "anti-American."
"When you think about the green new scam, it was pro-China, and it's anti-American, and it's also unaffordable and unreliable," Burgum said on Jesse Watters Primetime.
One natural gas pipeline supplies as much energy as five massive offshore wind farms combined.
But natural gas doesn't kill bald eagles or create radar blind spots for America's military.
Trump suspended all five major offshore wind projects under construction in December 2025 after the Pentagon found turbine structures interfere with military radar systems.
Sweden discovered the turbines reduced warning time for potential missile strikes from several minutes to just 60 seconds and banned offshore wind in the Baltic Sea.
Obama's turbines obscure legitimate targets and generate false signals that compromise national security.
Trump's cleaning up the disaster by holding wind companies to the same laws everyone else follows.
The $14,536 fine won't resurrect the bald eagle Obama's $7.9 million experiment tore apart.
But it proves the era of wind companies operating above the law ended when Trump walked back into the Oval Office.
Sources:
- Peter Pinedo, "Green energy program funded by Obama admin fined for bald eagle's gruesome wind-turbine death," Fox News, February 6, 2026.
- "Department of the Interior Curbs Preferential Treatment for Wind Energy," U.S. Department of the Interior, July 29, 2025.
- "How Many Birds Are Killed by Wind Turbines?" American Bird Conservancy, February 11, 2025.
- Ian M. Stevenson and Michael Doyle, "Trump administration halts all large-scale offshore wind projects under construction in US," Utility Dive, December 22, 2025.
- "Wind Energy Company Pleads Guilty to Killing Eagles," Smithsonian Magazine, April 11, 2022.
