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Wind farms: the monuments to lunacy that will be left to blot the landscape ( UK )
Telegraph ^ | 10 Sep 2011 | Christopher Booker

Posted on 09/11/2011 6:52:10 PM PDT by george76

These pointless monstrosities will continue to proliferate until the Government sees sense.

Three separate news items on the same day last week reflected three different aspects of what is fast becoming a full-scale disaster bearing down on Britain. The first item was a picture in The Daily Telegraph showing two little children forlornly holding a banner reading “E.On Hands Off Winwick”.

This concerned a battle to prevent a tiny Northamptonshire village from being dwarfed by seven 410-foot wind turbines, each higher than Salisbury Cathedral, to be built nearby by a giant German-owned electricity firm. The 40 residents, it was reported, have raised £50,0000 from their savings to pay lawyers to argue their case when their village’s fate is decided at an inquiry by a Government inspector.

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Alas, despite all the practical evidence to show why wind power is one of the greatest follies of our age, those who rule our lives, from our own politicians and officials here in Britain to those above them in Brussels, seem quite impervious to the facts.

(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Editorial; Foreign Affairs; Germany; Government; News/Current Events; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: anemomenophobia; batophobia; ecofascism; ecoweenies; energy; energypolicy; germany; globalhoaxing; green; greenenergy; greenenergyhoax; greenjobs; greenpower; hoaqueens; nimbys; outlawmachines; propertytaxhikes; unitedkingdom; wind; windfarms; windmills; windpower; windturbines
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To: george76

Video: Catastrophic Wind Turbine Failure : TreeHugger
http://www.treehugger.com/files/2008/02/video_catastrop.php


61 posted on 09/13/2011 9:25:15 AM PDT by familyop (cbt. engr. (cbt), Army NG, '89-' 96)
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To: george76

Wind turbines are the main physical cause of fatal headaches, early onset of menopause, brain damage, cancer, horror visually forced into victims, and the murders of millions of birds and bats every minute.


62 posted on 09/13/2011 9:34:15 AM PDT by familyop (cbt. engr. (cbt), Army NG, '89-' 96)
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To: george76
California's largest wind farms kill on average, more than 80 Golden eagles per year and up to 1,000 raptor deaths per month. You all will not believe this report, and not one company has been fined or arrested. If a farmer killed an eagle that was killing his sheep, he would be fined up to $5,000 and maybe serve time.

http://video.foxnews.com/v/1113088230001/bird-strike

Even more frustrating is 18 years ago all federal and state lands have been off limits for logging to maybe save a spotted owl or two! 20% unemployment and our county is on the federal dole to the tune of $50 Million a year to support our county government all to stop logging and save the spotted owl!!!!

63 posted on 09/13/2011 9:42:36 AM PDT by thirst4truth (The left elected a mouth that is unattached to an eye, brain or muscle.)
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To: blackdog

The raptors are being killed by them.
http://video.foxnews.com/v/1113088230001/bird-strike


64 posted on 09/13/2011 9:47:20 AM PDT by thirst4truth (The left elected a mouth that is unattached to an eye, brain or muscle.)
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To: thirst4truth

Not when they stop turning.............Which they seem to do at an ever increasing rate.


65 posted on 09/13/2011 11:42:32 AM PDT by blackdog (The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop)
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To: DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis
Otto, werfen Sie einen Blick auf die explodierenden Windmühle.

Klaus, Der Amerikaner erfunden Algore wie.

Algore ist so ein spas Vogel. Hah-ha! Kaputmühle!

66 posted on 09/13/2011 12:18:46 PM PDT by oyez ( America is being pimped.)
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To: Revolting cat!

Oh, for the love of all that’s good! Why must that atrocity sully the pages of Free Republic for ever now? Was there a particular reason to show us that monstrosity that cannot be unseen?


67 posted on 09/13/2011 1:57:17 PM PDT by mwilli20 (BO. Making communists proud all over the world.)
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To: thirst4truth; george76; tubebender; steelie; SierraWasp

Thanks for posting this little bit of reality for those who call themselves conservatives and bow down to the Solar/Wind/Mythanol gods.

One of our younger relatives is an excellent engineer and duck/goose hunter.

Decades ago, he pointed what has become a hidden reality to protect the wonderful green wind pushng scam artists.

In N California the first wind mills and recently the second/third innovation wind mills were put into passes that waterfowl and other birds use to migrate and travel from water to water and to feeding grounds.

So these ducks/geese and othe waterfowl flew into the windmills that had been placed in their flight paths for eons.

The wind mills slaughtered/slaughters them on a huge scale.
Then in the early morning, the raptors, hawks, Perigines, Eagles and other protected species come to feed on the dead and dying waterfowl. If the wind is still blowing, they get sliced and diced by the huge propellors.

Coyotes, foxes, racoons and other predators have taken up residence in the killing fields below the wind mills.

In the past few years during the economic melt down, humans are out there trying to snag/gather the dead/dying ducks/geese for food. It won’t be long before packs of well fed coyotes start going after those who are stealing their food.

Owls get slaughtered, when they fly into the propellors on windy nights. Our younger relative has wondered how many were so called endangered spotted owls die each night/week/month/year and never are reported to Fish and Game and the Fed Wildlife sham agencies.

http://video.foxnews.com/v/1113088230001/bird-strike


68 posted on 09/13/2011 2:01:21 PM PDT by Grampa Dave (ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION IS DESTROYING AMERICA-LOOK AT WHAT IT DID TO THE WHITE HOUSE!)
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To: oyez

Al Gore ist dumm. Er hat die ridicul der Welt verdient.


69 posted on 09/13/2011 2:18:27 PM PDT by DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis (Want to make $$$? It's easy! Use FR as a platform to pimp your blog for hits!!!)
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To: tlb

ROFL


70 posted on 09/13/2011 2:20:57 PM PDT by DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis (Want to make $$$? It's easy! Use FR as a platform to pimp your blog for hits!!!)
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To: painter

Chuck. Or maybe upchuck. ;’)


71 posted on 09/13/2011 8:12:17 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (It's never a bad time to FReep this link -- https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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