Shooting the Wildlife

The habitat of beavers (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Yes it’s true. A few minutes ago two men from the township arrived across the road from our home to shoot the beavers who have lived in that tiny wetland for years. Thankfully, the workers stopped when we asked them to, but not before at least one beaver was dead.

In the past, the township has shown up every several months to clear the culverts that cross under the road (the beavers dam them up) as part of county-wide water management — management that keeps the water artificially low here, so that it remains high in the Trent Canal system for rich tourists and their boats.

Ironically, these guys today are actually shooting their own jobs — if the beavers disappear, aside from the incalculable damage to the environment, their jobs to clear out the culverts will also disappear.

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• ‘Beaver cull plan’ claim denied (bbc.co.uk)
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• Beaver Basics (Animal Planet)

Opposing Wind Power with Dis/Misinformation

Originally from the Smithfield decretals (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Conservative plans to oppose wind power – memo | Environment | guardian.co.uk

The above link is one of the scariest documents I have read in a long time. If ever you needed proof of anti-environment greed, this will give you a glimpse of the degree of deception and misinformation these monsters are willing to promote in order to stop the development of viable alternate energy in the US.

And cheap, too — notice they recommend that most of the dirty work be done by volunteers.

I arrived at this document via Juan Cole‘s blog, Informed Comment, which led me to link from his site to Suzanne Goldenberg, US environment correspondent’s article at the Guardian in the UK.

Just who are the authors of this memo? Here are links to Rich Porter and John Droz, to give you an idea of what they are about:

• http://www.hinshawlaw.com/rporter/ – Richard S Porter
• http://www.desmogblog.com/john-droz and http://windpowerfacts.info/ – John Droz

On the other hand, perhaps memos such as the one linked above, are good news. Energy produced by wind turbines is so successful that dirty energy proponents need to employ tactics as dirty as their conventional energy and their money.

Related articles

• Wind Power (windpowercentral.wordpress.com)
• Fake Grassroots Campaign Against Wind Industry Exposed (triplepundit.com)
• It’s Clean, Cheap, and Creates Jobs. And That is Exactly Why WindBaggers Hate it. (climatecrocks.com)