[TigerLikesRooster]

Maybe we should go back to coal power plants burning low grade coals, with bellowing pitch black smoke from its smoke stacks.

[TigerLikesRooster]

Ping!

[ArcadeQuarters]

Proving once again that left-wing environmentalists are anti-business, not pro environment.

[truemiester]

since the enviromenta wackos area gainst coal and wind, lets build a huge nuke right on the hill.

A much more reasonable approach would be to dress up in all black, armed with shot guns and shoot all the parrots you see. If they are extint then there is not reason to not build the wind farm.

[SIDENET]

More proof that enviro-freaks will bitch about anything.

[backhoe]

Allow me to drop out of Lurk and Link Mode for a rare bit of commentary- we all need to get serious about our dependency on foreign sources of energy, and use our own resources.

Our consumer-based economy is driven by readily-available, reliable energy-- choke that off, and we'll be back to using one rotary dial phone in the dining room and driving one car per family-- probably a Hudson Hornet...

We need to

1) end the nonsensical ban on offshore drilling off California and Florida

2) build a lot of next-generation nuclear power plants, not just for electricity, but for any process requiring heat, power, or steam.

3) end Jimmy Carter's idiotic ban on recycling nuclear waste, and reprocess the stuff rather than fighting over where to bury it. Europe has done it for decades.

4) use the 300-500 years worth of coal we have on our own land, using the new clean-coal technology.

5) and finally, there's nothing wrong with conservation- but you can't conserve your way out of a shortage- we need to get serious about this before we get strangled by a bunch of petty thieves and dictators who don't like us much.

My tongue-in-cheek collection of energy-related links:

Sticker Shock-$3 a gallon gas? Click the picture:

And note, and note well-- the first reply to this post ( when gas was less than $1.50 a gallon ) was derisive... so, who's laughing now?

[M1Tanker]

Yet another in a long list of examples showing that NO rational solution will work for the environuts.

Now killing 80% of humanity (i.e. Zero Population Fund and other nut-cases who somehow get listed in the CFC-Combined Federal Campaign) and returning to "gaia" after killing all the Christians and Jews. That is a "reasonable" plan for the enviros.

If you follow the money, I will bet you will find that some of the lead opponents have financial stakes against the wind-farm. Just like following GreenPeace's money, you find these socialist organizations are the very example of "evil corporations" they project onto everyone else.
http://www.activistcash.com

[tlb]

>>>> Senator Campbell said he had reluctantly decided to use the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act to block the wind farm because of the small possibility that it could cause "up to one bird death per year" .

He's right, killing that bird would be murder most fowl.

[truth_seeker]

Any bird species worth keeping can damn well learn to fly around the wind farm.

Evolution. Survival of the fittest.

[NZerFromHK]

Ping! Things are a bit interesting oops!