The endagered bumblebee was used to delay the Longmeadow Parkway (which really ought to be called a “tollway.”)
The effort did not succeed, but it brought to area residents the existence of the rare insect.
Now comes environmentalists in Winnebago County utilizing the same tactic to convince the powers that be not to run a highway across the 14-acre Bell Bowl Prairie, where the bee has been sighted.
The Chicago Tribune wrote the following about the dispute:
And the rusty patcher bumblebee is not the only arrow in the environmentalist’s quiver:
If there’s anything this environmental hooey has taught us.
The science these scammers offer, are always Hockey Stick Graphs extolling catastrophe.
Not rocket science and actually not science at all.
It’s called eco terrorists DJ.
They scream about gas driven cars then try to block a bridge to improve traffic flow which reduces emissions.
And here they come again with airport expansion.
They must not understand the Rockford Airport is surrounded by farms within 10 miles.
These NGO funded nut jobs need to go the way of the dinosaur.
The reason they’re there is due to it’s not being farmed.
Farmland’s a bad place for insects most of the time.
Typical insanity.