Posted on 04/06/2022 10:34:22 AM PDT by george76
That was one of the arguments submitted in the defense against banning DDT, which was accused of being responsible for the decline of not only eagles but all raptors.
" William Ruckelshaus, the administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency who made the ultimate decision to ban DDT in 1972, was a member of the Environmental Defense Fund. Ruckelshaus solicited donations for EDF on his personal stationery that read “EDF’s scientists blew the whistle on DDT by showing it to be a cancer hazard, and three years later, when the dust had cleared, EDF had won.”
100 THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT DDT:
https://junkscience.com/100-things-you-should-know-about-ddt/#ref1
Just like going fishing and getting busted for not paying the state for the privilege.
You in a whooooole lotta trouble, boy.
I wish they’d get rid of the stupid things. They are over-priced, useless and unreliable.
so much for any profit on that job...
Meanwhile, Witch Hitlery was only fined about 140,000$ in an attempted coup of a US President!
Does anybody know if these wind turbine things are bullet-proof?
They should built those only over water, to get rid of the evidence.
Exactly.🤔
Restitution so uncle sugar can repair the damaged windmills for more killing dontchaknow!
Dunno but they claimed they could withstand an F5 tornado in wind tunnel tests - for my money I’d rather see it - on video of course.
No need foxes and other predators have learned to scavenge the ground for a free lunch. I’m sure this won’t have unintended consequences either, what’s that...
never mind /
bttt
Thank you for that. I remember that piece and this whole subject made me want to search and post it here. You saved me the trouble. I don’t think Rush wrote it but that’s where I first heard it.
Every commercial windmill erected will indiscriminately kill hundreds of endangered birds annually. And their noise actually attract bats (which in some parts of the US are invaluable to agriculture as agents of cross-pollination), then beats them to death.
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