Jon Thompson tells industry conference there was ‘no evidence’ that bats were at risk from the trains
“There were some rare bats we were legally obliged to protect, but we just had to drive the tracks right through the woods. We couldn’t come up with any viable solutions except an ugly shed, then when the council complained about how ugly it was, we went over their heads to central government and lawyered them into submission. Wow that was expensive, huh.”
Emperor@feddit.uk 6 days ago
He sounds like a bit of a prick trying to muddy the waters in an investigation into why the project went so over-budget under his watch.
Mr_Blott@feddit.uk 6 days ago
I’m sure he could do a great job of muddying the waters with the propeller of his new fucking yacht
ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net 6 days ago
“Available” like the bats are a cheap product. “Why should we protect local bat populations, we can just order more off Amazon.”
Consumer brain is insidious and a symptom of a diseased worldview making us all alienated and miserable. Obviously not even in the top 50 things that are doing that at the moment, but it’s up there.