From our friends over at the National Center for Public Policy Research. The group has taken out a five week long permit where Occupy DC is squatting. Everyday the National Policy has brought attention to some beef it has with big government and today is no different. Today’s target: windmills.
“If I was a bird, I’d be an angry bird right now,” said David Almasi, executive director of the National Center for Public Policy
Research and director of the National Center’s “Occupy Occupy DC” project. “Countless innocent birds that only want to be with their eggs die every year from crashing into wind turbines. The environmentalists who promote wind energy at the expense of the birds are green pigs!”
A report by the National Research Council estimated that wind turbines kill approximately 100,000 birds every year. The American Bird Conservancy claims the number could be triple that estimate — affecting the songbird community most of all.
“At some point the slaughter of birds and bats by taxpayer-subsidized wind turbines is going to trigger serious legal action,” added National Center Senior Fellow Bonner Cohen, Ph.D. “If the full force of the Migratory Bird Treaty and the Endangered Species Act were brought to bear on these unsightly killing machines, investors would turn their backs on this artificial industry in a heartbeat.”
Tomorrow is the National Center’s last day of its Occupation.