Right Wing Nation

You’ve got to be kidding:

A council spent £1 million protecting a colony of rare newts on a building site only to discover that none lived there.

Leicestershire County Council delayed a major road-building scheme for three months after evidence of great crested newts was found on the site. The species is protected by law

You’ve got to be kidding.

but after the authority paid hundreds of thousands of pounds for special newt-fencing and traps, not one of the rare creatures was discovered.

The action was taken on the strength of a report from environmental experts

And there’s your problem, right there. “Environmental experts” are, without exception, blithering idiots. Only an assclown would become an “environmental expert,” and only a bigger assclown would care what they had to say about anything.