Bizarre?
Not really. Let's continue to be careful not to feed Porter supporters arguments they can turn against us.
The birds were there long before the pipeline was ever planned, they follow long-standing migration and nesting patterns, and the noise has been proven to present a short term danger to the survival of certain species.
Porter might successfully argue that there was flight activity happening out of the islands long before many of today's waterfront condos ever took shape on a drawing board. Many local residents made a choice to move into these condos (admittedly, likely not expecting the level of nuisance they are subjected to) and noise, although certainly harmful to humans as well, does not kill us quite as fast (I know whereof I speak: from the age of 1 to 11, I lived right smack dab next to a highway which had not been built when my parents moved into the apartment - it became normal background noise to me, but nearly drove my mother mad; didn't kill her, though).
The arguments regarding integrity, the use and abuse of taxpayers money to keep Porter afloat, and how it is likely kept alive by the feds in great part because it serves as a glorified shuttle service to many bureaucrats are very valid indeed. Let's continue to push those, which should carry weight in the eyes of anyone reasonable and unbiased.