Royal Society for the Protection of Bitchin'
dp | 31.01.2007 11:53 | Ecology
Anyway, back to the point. On the return journey the RSPB officer had to stop various times to investigate dead birds found by electricity pylons. Two buzzards and some kind of hawk were found under three different poles while I was there. They looked healthy birds apart from being dead ;-)
I'm fairly technical, I've got an HNC in power-line transmissions amongst other basic qualifications. The birds weren't obviously burned at any point in their bodies but they were obviously killed by the transmission lines, given that they were all under power-line poles. So I feel it is safe to assume they were either killed by badly insulated power poles or by the radiation these give off, and I told this to the RSPB woman.
I saw every turbine in the Western Isles and found no dead birds near them. I saw many dead birds near ordinary transmission lines. You often find dead birds under transmissioj lines. And yet the RSPB in the Western Isles are still pursuing a vendettta against wind-power. My impression was there was wide-spread local support for local turbines ( for reasons of autonomy rather than sustainability ) and yet the RSPB there propagandise against wind-power. Local generators of any kind means less transmission cable and so less global-warming, as 90% of generated electricity is lost through electrical resistance in the distribution 'grid'. The fact that wind-power is sustainable and local with no toxic by-products and no need for long transmission lines is just the cherry on the cake.
And so for the RSPB to spend serious amounts of money on 'surveys' to oppose wind-power on false claims that it will harm birds - well, I for one suspect they are being subsidised by British Energy.
By the way, why did RSPB Scotland take 86 flights last year ? Empathy with the birds ? Those self-serving fakers should read up on something that begins with Global and ends in Warming. The RSPB should either sack ALL of it's Scottish staff or stop pretending to be a friend of the environment.
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