[Marxism] Big wind's inconvenient truth
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Traffic noise = good, windmill noise = bad The CounterPunch article Big Wind’s Inconvenient Truth posted by Lou basically asks: if you are so much for the environment, how can you be for windmills? The answer is: the switch to renewable energy is not an environmental issue, it is a survival issue. I you hear a slight swooshing sound sometimes at night when the wind is right, think of it as elves cleaning up our mess so that it won't poison us. Hans Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
Re: [Marxism] Big wind's inconvenient truth
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == There is actually a huge fight that has split renewable energy fans down the middle over wind in Vermont. My cousin is a leading environmental land use lawyer there and she's in major law suits against big wind. I got an earful over wind from her 2 weeks ago during a visit. Vermonters in their majority oppose the ridge-line destruction of their mountains. The *only* constituency it seems are the big utilities and co-ops that own them (including a big Quebec corp) and rich liberals in New England who don't have live by them. The issue is not just unsightly wind turbines (I don't mind them personally but I understand that most do not like seeing them) which has an effect on tourism in this state, but the huge environmental foot print they leave behind in terms of construction roads, filling of creek beds and species threats. My cousin informed that they build this massive roads, not unlike mining roads *but wider* to haul the tower, turbine and equipment up these ridges. Do so means deforresting whole areas of the ridges and the area leading up to them. David Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
