Ten Reasons why People who Support Wind Farms Are Deluded, Criminal or
Insane. Which One Are You, Vince Cable?
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Opposing wind farms is "irrational", claimed Liberal Democrat MP Vince
Cable at his party conference yesterday.
Actually, no. Here are some reasons why anyone who doesn't oppose wind
farms is most probably either deluded, criminal or insane.
1. Wind turbines kill bats on an industrial scale - nearly 30 million a
year in the US alone, according to some estimates. This is somewhat ironic
since most of those pushing for more wind are ardent greenies, who
presumably understand that the reason bats are such a heavily protected
species is that their breeding cycle is so slow and their life cycle so
long - making them especially vulnerable when a breeding pair is killed.
2. Wind turbines kill birds on an industrial scale
<http://www.spectator.co.uk/features/8807761/wind-farms-vs-wildlife/>.
Between 110 and 330 birds per turbine per year, according to the Spanish
conservation charity SEO/Birdlife - though other research puts the
mortality rate as high as 895. In the US, they have killed tens of
thousands of raptors including golden eagles and America's national bird,
the bald eagle. In Spain, they threaten the Egyptian and Griffon vulture.
In Australia, they have driven the Tasmanian wedge-tailed eagle close to
extinction. Yet bizarrely wind farms are supported by bird charities
including the RSPB
<http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2305197/RSPB-makes-killing--windfarm-giants-turbines-accused-destroying-rare-birds.html>,
because their ideological commitment to "clean energy" trumps the interests
of birds, apparently.
3. Wind turbines produce Low Frequency Noise and infrasound, which can
cause those who live nearby a range of health problems
<http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/moslive/article-2199284/Wind-farms-Are-wind-farms-saving-killing-A-provocative-investigation-claims-thousands-people-falling-sick-live-near-them.html>
including insomnia, raised cortisol levels, headaches, panic attacks,
tachycardia, nausea, mood swings, palpitations, depression. The corrupt
wind industry has known about this for years
<http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/jamesdelingpole/100227983/wind-turbines-are-a-human-health-hazard-the-smoking-gun/>.
- with the complicity of certain tame acousticians - contrived to cover up
the problem, recognising that if ever the word gets into the public domain
the lawsuits are going to be immense.
4. Wind turbines have terrible impacts on animals besides birds and bats.
They have caused stillbirth and deformations in livestock; they can turn
healthy, responsive dogs into nervous wrecks. In Denmark
<http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-London/2014/06/10/Wind-Turbines-Caused-1-600-Miscarriages-on-Fur-Farm>
they caused the premature births of 1600 mink at a fur farm. In Canada
<http://thechronicleherald.ca/novascotia/1168233-turbines-blamed-for-killing-emu-business>
they caused the closure of an emu farm popular with tourists, because the
turbines made the docile birds (which cost $3,000 a pair) aggressive.
5. Wind turbines kill jobs
<http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/jamesdelingpole/100078040/the-real-cost-of-global-warming/>.
According to research by Gabriel Calzada Alvarez of the Rey Carlos
university in Madrid, they destroy 2.2 jobs in the real economy for every
Potemkin job ("green job") created by government malinvestment. Separate
research suggests that the damage in the UK may be even higher: 3.7 real
jobs lost for every fake green one created.
6. Wind turbines are like a reverse Robin Hood, lining the pockets of the
rent-seeking rich - such as Prime Minister David Cameron's father-in-law, Sir
Reginald Sheffield, Bt
<http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/jamesdelingpole/100103077/sir-reginald-sheffield-bt-an-apology/>,
who makes a £1000 a day just for sitting on his arse while the eight
turbines on his Leicestershire estate turn idly in the breeze - at the
expense of the ordinary energy user. If this were free market capitalism,
fine. But it's not: it's the exact opposite - crony capitalism in which
economic favours are handed out by the market but by government fiat. This
is the kind of state-endorsed social injustice of which bloody revolutions
are made.
7. Wind turbines - as any rural community which has tried fighting the
heavily-rigged planning system will know - are disruptive, divisive and
unjust. They turn neighbour against neighbour. They force country folk who
really would have preferred to do other things with their lives to expend
vast quantities of money, time and energy trying desperately to preserve
the character and charm of their neighbourhood by fighting wind projects
with all their might. Often - that rigged planning system - they fail. So
one local person gets rich, earning perhaps £30,000 a year per turbine on
his land. But everyone else suffers in the form of blighted views, reduced
property values, noise disturbance etc.
8. Wind turbines are economically pointless. Because the "energy" they
produce is unreliable, unpredictable and intermittent (sometimes the wind
blows; sometimes it doesn't; sometimes it blows so hard that the turbines
have to be switched off) it has no genuine market value. Electricity users
want electricity as and when they need it, not when the wind deigns to
blow. That's why it has to be so heavily subsidised by the taxpayer -
because without bribes no developer would risk the capital outlay on
something so unproductive. And it's why wind energy has constantly to be
backed up by more conventional power like coal, gas and oil. One 25 hectare
fracking site and one medium sized fossil fuel power station can produce
the same amount of energy as ALL the wind turbines in Britain.
9. Wind farms are partly responsible for the thousands of people who die
every year of fuel poverty. (Plus, of course, all those people who've been
fatally injured in turbine fires, air crashes, or by flying blades - for
full details see here
<http://www.caithnesswindfarms.co.uk/AccidentStatistics.htm>.) This is
because, being so disproportionately expensive - between roughly twice and
three times the cost of conventional fossil fuel power, depending on
whether we're talking onshore or offshore wind - and being, by government
order, a compulsory part of our "energy mix", they drive up energy to
artificially high levels. The carbon saving benefits of wind farms are
largely imaginary; the effects on "global warming" marginal to illusory;
but the people who actually die each year, unable to afford their rising
fuel bills, are very, very real.
10. Wind farms are a blot on the landscape
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mEEaqsll2jw&feature=youtu.be>. They just
are. And don't give me any of that "Well I think they're rather handsome
actually" crap. Your warped personal aesthetics ought not to be anyone's
problem but your own.
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