Posted on 01/19/2025 10:55:31 AM PST by Mean Daddy
The top executives of a company accused of abandoning junked wind-turbine blades across Iowa say they shouldn’t be held liable for their companies’ actions.
Last fall, the State of Iowa sued a Washington-state company and its executives for allegedly dumping tons of old wind-turbine blades around Iowa, in violation of the state’s solid-waste laws.
The lawsuit alleges that for over seven years, Global Fiberglass Solutions failed to properly dispose of decommissioned wind-turbine blades and stockpiled them at multiple locations in Iowa. The lawsuit, filed in Iowa District Court for Jasper County, seeks payment of civil penalties and a court injunction to prevent any additional violations of the state’s solid-waste laws.
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“If you’ve traveled through Iowa you’ve seen the hundreds of windmills along interstate I-80.”
Yes indeed, and every one of those POS products will be junk (and probably abandoned) within 20 years. Oh, and the CO2 belched into the atmosphere by all things involved with the manufacturing, installation, will be far more than if we just had some simple natural gas power generation. We won’t even think of nuclear plants...you know, the ones that are decades old and still functioning.
How many blades in total? (In Iowa (this lawsuit) but in total of all those built since Obama-Biden-Harris began demanding their fabrication, and subsidizing/controlling and funding their importation from China/fabrication here by Chinese companies.)
I know they have life-spans based on fatigue failure vibrations and UV damage to the composites, but I though only in 20 or 30 failed. Sounds like many times that guess have already failed and have been replaced.
Yes, a disgusting sight. Traveling along admiring the beautiful landscape only to come across the horizon lined with those damn ugly things. What’s sad is a good percentage are not turning at all, probably due to mechanical failure.
Add the mechanical failure to their short service life, their expense to build and only work when there is wind, and they are a complete joke.
Now this story shows how these save the environment hypocrites are littering the landscape with their junk windmill parts.
As part of their sentencing, those executives should have pieces of those windmill blades jammed into their houses wherever they move to. Let them live with the garbage they dumped on others.
But wait! They’re eco friendly, correct/s!!?
‘Green’ isn’t.
https://iowacapitaldispatch.com/2024/06/14/wind-turbine-blade-recycling-is-underway-in-iowa/
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The remaining blades in Newton are expected to be cut into pieces and hauled to Tennessee this summer, said Danielle Rogers, a spokesperson for the city of Newton.
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Grrrrrrrrrr. Remember when folks would sue for ‘destroying’ their “view shed”? I can’t stand these eye sores.
Yes. This mess is from a wind industry that is an infant and just getting started. Windmills will have 20 - 25 year life spans. Just imagine the TENS OF MILLIONS of blades that will have to be disposed over the next 100 years.
Plus you will have MILLIONS of towers and HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF TONS of concrete in the ground and in the sea.
There’s nothing like green energy to save us.
Get that windmill crap cleaned up! You’re destroying the “enviomen”. Pigs!
The problem is subsidising the construction rather than the electricity produced, which is bad enough. So guys have an incentive to make a fortune building windmills, not producing electricity, not that gubmint interference in that market is justified either, but at least you get the electricity. Instead you get the abandoned projects.
This lawsuit is 1300+ scrapped blades. Same company has 5000 scrapped blades in Texas. And wind generator blade replacement just due to age is barely starting.
It won’t take twenty years. A good old fashioned coal or nuclear plant will keep you warm or cool for a fraction of the cost. The price tag for the leftist lunacy is never discussed.
Just like the CFL mercury bomblets that the Watermelons [Green on the outside, Red on the inside] foisted on us.
Lady Bird Johnson made an effort to get rid of highway signs.
The Environuts knew you just bury them in the ground because they can’t be recycled , right ?
The firm in question - Global Fiberglass Solutions - is wholly culpable, having failed to even provide for a bond as far back as 2021.
Since they sued the executives as well as the corporation, the state of Iowa must have evidence implicating them in a conspiracy which may not qualify under criminal statutes (ironic considering that in a normal world the federal DOJ would prosecute such an interstate conspiracy /s).
This progressive house of blades needs to crumble, hard & fast.
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