The gross hypocrisy of this bloke is amazing...build wind farms anywhere but my back yard! Oh, and coal mines too, can't have any of those Bobby says...
He is resorting to wild life destruction as his secondary reason for not building a "wind farm"...people have been telling the lunatic fringe for years that these contraptions kill birds.
There was an article a few weeks ago of the massive drop in sea birds around an offshore "wind farm" near the UK that has killed off sea birds in dramatic numbers, but the zealots came rushing out with BS that the fall in numbers may have been a "natural;" phenomenon...
Crusader Brown turns against wind farm
Former Greens leader and veteran activist Bob Brown is campaigning to stop a $1.6 billion wind farm development in Tasmania because it will spoil the view and kill birds.
Despite the criticisms leveled at former prime minister Tony Abbott and treasurer Joe Hockey for describing wind turbines as “ugly”, Dr Brown said the Robbins Island plan was, visually, a step too far. “Mariners will see this hairbrush of tall towers from 50km out to sea and elevated landlubbers will see it, like it or not, from greater distances on land,” Dr Brown said. “Its eye-catchiness will divert from every coastal scene on the western Bass Strait coastline.”
In his letter on the wind farm, Dr Brown wrote: “Besides the impact on the coastal scenery, wind turbines kill birds. Wedge-tailed eagle and white-bellied sea eagles nest and hunt on the island. Swift parrots and orange-bellied parrots traverse the island on their migrations.
