Service Investigation of PacifiCorp Secures Improved Safeguards for Eagles

July 13, 2009 by USFWS  

PacifiCorp, one of the largest electric utilities in the West, has pleaded guilty to 34 Federal charges involving the electrocution of golden eagles and other protected migratory birds. The company was ordered to pay a $510,000 fine and $900,000 in restitution and must spend $9.1 million over the next five years to make its power network in Wyoming "bird friendly."

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