38 Replies to “Saskatchewan Blogger Recommends Release At A Wind Farm”

  1. After a hard days work of washing crude off of sea foul, me, the wife and kidneys love nothing better than the Colonel’s 18 piece bucket with slaw and gravy sides. Mmmmmmm…..

  3. Pepto-bismol!! Well maybe that’s why they keep dying on me…I’ve been feeding them Alka-selzer!!

  4. Prince William Sound is still devoid of water life after the Exxon Valdez.Wait.Let me clarify that.It is still devoid of water life AFTER the eco-nuts clean up.Every other area around it has returned to normal after no clean up.Mother Nature looks after her own.Them little bugs that eat oil do a good job.Better then Palmolive

  5. If they actually followed the recommendation – kill the bills – it would be a huge victory against the forces of bambification.

  6. Can you just imagine the Hippy Tree Bawling crowd with this event?
    We’d have to cut down 200,000 acres of forest just to provide the kleenex.

  7. Hey, maybe after they get minced in the windmills we can collect the bits and make bio-diesel out of them! Its a new, green, enviro-fiendly energy source.
    What?! Come on, they’re soaked in oil already! Half the job’s done for ya.

  8. Meanwhile, the European central bank has announced a TRILLION dollar loan to support their failing currency and failing PIIGS bonds.
    No word on whose @ss they magically pulled a trillion bucks out of. Angela Merkel’s maybe.

  9. *
    how about we euthanise clifford olson & paul bernardo
    instead    … and just let mother nature deal with the birds?
    *

  10. Neo, how much bio-diesel you figure we could render out of Clifford Olson?
    And would you want to be able to hang a sign on your F-250: “Powered by serial killers!”

  11. Warning, if you are sensitive don’t read any further.
    What would the otherwise useless people do.
    What about the pictures for fund raising campaign.
    There are a whole set of circumstances to consider before you stop the picture taking.

  12. Why go through all the time and trouble of converting them to bio-diesel, just put each one in a paper tube and sell them as Yule logs.
    Chestnuts roasting on an oiled seagull…..

  13. That would smell pretty yummy Al. Burning crude, plus burning feathers, plus burnt barbecue? Mmmm mmm!
    Add some ground up tire rubber in there and you’d have a real beauty.

  15. Who needs a cormorant anyway? Really.
    Fisherman on the beautiful St. Lawrence would like a cull so maybe they could round up the healthy ones here as they hatch and begin sending shipments. Good for the pike and our tourist business.

  17. So washing oil soaked birds was just another phoney enviro public relations sideshow? Who would have thunk it. That concept is pretty rich coming from the WWF which made its bones in Europe by slandering/libeling poor, but proud residents of Canada trying to earn a few bucks off the seal hunt.
    Another interesting item is the spill estimates given in “big numbers” of litres and gallons which must be directed at some part of the population unfamiliar with the concept of a barrel or metric tonne measurement of oil.
    Meanwhile the oceans are being filled with increasing amounts of recycled dihydrogen monoxide which kills huge numbers of people across the world every year not to mention the effects of covalent combined chemicals like sodium/chlorine.

  18. Hey Sgt Lejaune, just wait until they start reporting the oil spill in teaspoons and thimbles full.
    Never under estimate the power of media torque.

  20. Most birds are lightly built – racing bikes rather
    than Humvees. A cold will finish a budgie in an
    afternoon. Even “pet” birds accustomed to
    human touch get extremely upset if one touches their
    flight feathers. Being oiled is bad, but a bird would
    probably regard the handling associated with cleaning as
    Hell, and a nightmare which will indeed
    end all other nightmares.
    God damned leftists.

  21. Is this deja vous all over again? A German recommending killing as a solution to solving a problem? Is it a genetic thing?

  22. @The Phantom, you’ve given me a new idea.
    Emeril Lagasse’s Blackend Pelican, BAM!!!!

  23. Killing the birds may indeed be the better solution but will not produce great Kodak moments for wildlife fundraisers.
    The birds welfare IMHO is secondary to the feelings of the ‘public’ and the ‘media exposure’.

  24. I am thinking that the “youths” of Europe could make good use of them as car-bq starters.

  25. Rob you win the prize there.
    As usual they hide the tiny wee bit of useful information way at the bottom. The last paragraph should be the first:
    “The Prestige spill killed 250,000 birds. Of the thousands that were cleaned, most died within a few days, and only 600 lived and were able to be released into the wild. According to a British study of the spill, the median lifespan of a bird that was cleaned and released was only seven days.”
    The few that lived through the cleaning and were finally released had a median lifespan of seven days. A week. Assuming they know what the word “median” means, we assume zero birds lived longer than two weeks in the wild, and many died the first day.
    Therefore, the single useful purpose served by cleaning birds is PROPAGANDA. They don’t care a damn about the birds, if they did they’d sit on the beach with a BB gun and practice head shots on oily pelicans. They care about the video, the pictures, the -appearance- of caring.
    Thats what I can’t stand about bunny huggers. They’re fake-faced. They don’t love animals, they hate humans.

  26. @shaken,
    Actually the market for oiled-bird car-bq starters would be in Greece these days.
    Yep, send oil to Greece.
    Greece is the word….

  29. @ The Phantom, 2:31
    It’s an interesting philosophical problem. To me, the important data point is that “600 lived and were able to be released into the wild”, a non-trivial percentage. If volunteers want to make the effort, at their own expense (or with donated money) I fail to see the problem.
    Reminds me of an old parable: Man asks child on the beach why he’s throwing starfish back in the ocean. “Don’t you know there are too many and it will make no difference?”
    “Made a difference to that one” said the boy as he threw the next one in.

  30. Its only a philosophical problem if you don’t do the math, Chris.
    250,000 birds got oiled. Thousands got captured and cleaned. 600 lived through it, and got released back into the wild.
    “…the median lifespan of a bird that was cleaned and released was only seven days.”
    Number of birds actually saved out of thousands, ZERO. Or jeeze, maybe as many as ten of them lived three four months after being released.
    Question, what volume of resources and human time went into torturing thousands of birds (to death) so that 600 could live free for two weeks?

  32. Just to nitpick a little Phantom.
    If 301 birds lived 1 week or less and 299 lived 30 more years, 2 weeks would still be the median. I’m citing an unlikely scenario yes, but median 1 week isn’t a guarantee that all of the birds died after two.

  34. “One type of average, found by arranging the values in order and then selecting the one in the middle. If the total number of values in the sample is even, then the median is the mean of the two middle numbers. The median is a useful number in cases where the distribution has very large extreme values which would otherwise skew the data.”
    One week is in the middle. My money says they didn’t chose “average” life expectancy because it was less than one week.

  35. Justthinkin @ 9:11 has it right, scoop up what you can and let nature take over. I’m sure there have been times in past eons when oil has come to the surface, either naturally or by earthquake, volcano or whatever.

  36. Phantom 9:39 That is so right wing and inflammatory. It should read Powered by a serial crop. It’s greener.

  38. Did you ever try cormorant, seagull or pelican?
    No, but I did try stony petrel on a stick. Didn’t come with wafers, though.

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