They are now but cash cows (a trough in which to quaff) for the many attendees who sit on long-winded Government-funded investigation committees
no one around to hear the sound (of whispers in the woods) while their coffers swelled for all the papers printed on the ecology several trees were felled
the fracking drilling boring too (found underground) wastes water in copious quantities releases greenhouse gas and undermines the earth in the final analyses
deliberate discussion and debate ('til the cows come home) to which they are compelled only exacerbates the issue of global warming with their hot air expelled