Save the Animals, Unless It’s for Wind Farms

It has been revealed that a Queensland wind farm project is euthanising koalas to make way for wind turbines.

Taralga Wind Farm over farmland in Taralga, New South Wales, Australia on Aug. 31, 2015. Mark Kolbe/Getty Images

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During a 2GB radio interview discussing Queensland’s Clarke Creek wind farm project, Nationals MP Keith Pitt said that the environmental controls for the project outlined how to get rid of any small animals injured by wind turbines, and that was by euthanising them with a “sharp blow with a hammer to the skull.”