[Grut]

I don't believe I've heard Vinalhaven's mostly yankee inhabitants referred to a "granola eaters" before, and I doubt they are. Wind power makes sense on an island with high average winds and the earlier vote reflected that. The current unhappiness is with the noise, which apparently was not described honestly before the vote.

No whining there, just Mainers pissed off at being misled.

Incidentally, if you want granola eaters, try around Bath: the Hobbit infestation there is incredible.

[bohica1]

I am no expert on wind turbines, but even I know they emit an awful lot of noise. Those who wanted the turbines should have done their own homework rather than take the word of experts [or whoever it was that mislead them].

[hinckley buzzard]

Last hobbits I had a conversation with from Bath were a couple of iron-workers one night outside a bar. Not nice people but no granola eaters, that's for sure.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

The wind pied piper merrily led the gullible along. Not one of the 385 who voted “yes” did any background research on damage these machines do? They all swallowed the promoter’s pitch, hook, line and sinker? There is an abundance of information all over about the problems these machines cause and it doesn’t take much effort to find it.

Granola-eaters or not, I don’t have much sympathy.

Large-scale land-gobbling solar and wind projects are nonsensical and impractical. They take probably 1,000 times the land of a conventional nuclear plant.