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CTV:

On Tuesday, Syncrude's lawyer says he'll ask a judge to throw out all of the charges against the oil company stemming from the deaths of 1,600 waterfowl on one of its tailings ponds in 2008.

The move comes as the Crown completed its case Monday.

The Crown has called a number of witnesses over the course of the nine-week trial, including first responders to the accident, environmental experts and bird migration researchers.

Syncrude has entered a not guilty plea to both provincial and federal charges after the animals were found dead. Officials maintain the company did everything in its power to prevent the tragedy.

This is from last week, but I've been giving it a lot of thought, and I've come up with a solution that should make everyone happy. Windmills, my friend.

Yep, surround those tailings ponds with those magnificent whirring beasts and then go for a beer with your new friends at Greenpeace. Not that windmills are much good at generating electricity, but they are first-rate bird killers. Those feathered bastards will be dead long before they hit the water.

And since environmentalists have yet to betray the slightest concern for birds chopped up by these turbines of death -- we might even call it Gaia's righteous wrath -- everybody goes away, hey, hey.

Except for the birds, of course. But screw 'em.