Meeting Fails: UI Seeks "Final Solution" for Wild Parakeet Population in Connecticut

Despite a two-hour meeting between Connecticut State officials with United Illuminating, today the Connecticut utility company refused pleas from public officials to stop the mass killings of wild monk parakeets. This meeting was closed to the public at large and to pro-wildlife groups seeking to use established, non-lethal means to control the wild parakeets.

Already about 10 percent of Connecticut's wild parakeets have been killed by poison gas in what United Illuminating spokesman Al Carbone admits is a "final solution" to the problem of wild parrots living free in the State.

Connecticut state legislaters claim that without an executive order from Connecticut governor M. Jodi Rell ordering a cessation of the gassings, they can do nothing.

Please sign our online petition, which now has 1413 signatures.

Also, please contact the Connecticut Governer and urge her to intervene before the immoral killings of these intelligent creatures go any further:

Governor M. Jodi Rell
Governor.Rell@po.state.ct.us

Executive Office of the Governor
State Capitol
210 Capitol Avenue
Hartford, Connecticut 06106

Telephone:
Greater Hartford Area: 860-566-4840
Toll Free: 800-406-1527
TDD: 860-524-7397

Also, please free to click on the "Connecticut Cruelty" license plate image I created to view and print out a full-size version.