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Thursday, August 03, 2006

Category: Politics
From a piece by Anthony Albanese in the small paper:

Even Monty Python could not have scripted Senator Ian Campbell's decision to protect one theoretical parrot every 1000 years and block a major infrastructure project in Victoria.
The Environment Minister's decision is absurd and must be reversed.
Last week, the Herald Sun revealed that on March 10, Senator Campbell's own department recommended the project be approved and found "no direct evidence of any impact on the orange bellied parrot at Bald Hills".
In spite of this, the minister has continued to bluster.

Sounds a bit like William Ruckelshaus' decision as head of the EPA in the US to ban DDT:

Ruckelshaus became the United States Environmental Protection Agencyâ€™s first Administrator when the agency was formed in December 1970. During his tenure he oversaw a three-month hearing on DDT, after which he simply ignored the recommendations of scientists and instituted a politically-inspired DDT ban.

The difference between the two is that undoubtably the former is the right decision for the wrong reason (there are plenty of reasons not to build wind farms) whilst the latter was the wrong decision for the wrong reason and had the outcome of tens of millions of lives lost. Fortunately for many very poor people in the world, things are getting better with the recent WHO recommendations.

- posted by Semi @ 6:03 PM 0 comments