This bird wants an “all of the above” energy policy?
Spineless eco-lobbyists and right-wing bureaucrats unite against ‘extremists”
The National Audubon and many of the state groups have long been a lobbying force in favor of compromise-induced industrial pillage (Think: Eric Draper). Today, they’re stepping it up a notch.
In a statement entitled “Audubon and GOP ConservAmerica launch campaign to bridge partisan divide on environment and energy,” The National Audubon Society and Republican group ConservAmerica announce a “groundbreaking” campaign aimed at “bridging the nation’s bitter partisan divides over energy and the environment.”
The American Eagle Compact supposedly targets conservation and energy development to “counter the partisanship has confused and polarized voters and jeopardized America’s commitment to conserving natural resources for the health of people and wildlife.”
But president and CEO of the National Audubon Society, David Yarnold, lays it out a bit clearer: “Extremists on both sides of the political divide have hijacked America’s conservation movement.”
Longtime conservation activist, Everglades advocate (and himself a former-Audubon lobbyist), Joe Browder, had this to say: “Most of us have differences, from time to time, over some specific issues, but the accusation by Audubon that the American conservation movement has been hijacked by extremists is not accurate, is harmful, is at best politically inept, and is right out of the anti-environmental extremists’ playbook.”
