One of the things that amazes me is that we listen to people, who glow with self-righteousness and lament
their canonic worries about the demise of our environment and advocate the ideas of clean, renewable
energy. The key elements here are: the advocating of ideas, and not the actual implementation of such.
I am not amazed by what is said by the advocates, but to the reaction when someone actually proposed an
energy system that meets the definitions of clean, renewable energy.
We are a country, completely dependent upon the whims and wishes of foreign oil producers, paying
steadily increasing rate costs for the energy we use, and also paying higher prices for everything we buy
due to increased production costs. Our environment is failing, our natural resources are dwindling, and
yet, when we have the opportunity to initiate, and utilize wind power, these same people cry, "Not in my
back yard."
Examples of the hypocrisy :
MLURC (Maine Land Use Regulatory Commission) voted against a plan by Maine Mountain Power to build
an 18-turbine wind farm on Black Nubble near Redington, ruling the turbines would be visibly intrusive from
a scenic ridge along the Appalachian Trail.
"We believe the current rush to wind energy development is bad public policy for Texas," said Josh Ladd, a
member of the group's board of directors. www.StopWindTurbines.com
With all the concern about environmental problems, our worst enemies to achieving energy gains in wind
energy seems to be the tree hugging, dedicated bird watching environmentalists, and the socially elite with
money. The same people who weep and cry about how concerned they are about the environment are the
same ones who slither in the dark background, stymieing any proposals that would advance a healing of
the environment. .
Groups like , Stop Ill Wind, War Against Wind, We Oppose Wind Farms and Industrial Wind Energy
Opposition are just some of the organizations that are against clean energy, are using scare tactics
equivalent to that of a Salem witch hunt, based on affective rather than common sense.
The enemies of offshore wind farms believe that wind turbines will damage the coastal view.
The Cape Wind project in Massachusetts has been opposed by Senator Ted Kennedy, whose house
overlooks the waters of the proposed project.
Donald Trump opposed a wind farm in Scotland that was near the coast of a golf course he planned to
build. ("We don't want to look at these turbines while we sip our organic ice teas.”)
Al Gore, leading mouth for global warming leaves a much larger carbon footprint than Geo. Bush. While
Bush utilizes an amazing array of alternative energy devices at his ranch in Texas, Gore has a home that
consumes the energy of a dozen regular size homes, has a large fleet of large gas guzzling vehicles and
uses his private jet regularly.
Wind farm foes in Texas, Scotland and Australia have objected to wind farms by claiming that birds will fly
into the turbines and be killed. ( a single feral cat kills more birds in a week than the average wind turbine
kills in over three years.")
Illinois critics have curtailed a wind farm by stating that the moving shadows of the turbine will make people
feel nauseous.
British politicians have objected to wind turbines’ appearance, and residents of New Zealand have initiated
legal proceedings against local wind farms.
Our F.A.A. is blocking multiple wind farm projects, claiming they might interfere with military radar.
