Letter: RSPB’s stand on drilling

Their presentation would melt the hardest of hearts.

Quite what drilling down thousands of feet would do to them was not explained, and ironically not a word was said about the highly expensive and inefficient windmills chopping their friends and offspring up as they return to our shores for the winter.

I am sure that when fracking increases (whatever the antis and everybody says, it is already here) it will be killing a lot less birds than the proposed thousands of windmills your readership is paying for through their electricity bills (read page 3/3 of your EDF bill of which 11% Social and Environmental is paying for windmills).

Perhaps we could hear from a neutral RSPB spokesman as to how many migratory birds are expected to die from a) windmills, b) fracking, and how fracking will be killing them, as fracking has been in some areas for a long time, and as far as I know, no bird deaths from fracking have been reported by the RSPB.

It would appear that two very noble charities, the RSPCA and the RSPB are both sprouting “political” wings, which is against their charitable status and could be losing them support.

Derek Earl

Balcombe