Eminent domain is a separate issue from Wind Development. The bottom line is that any Economy must have a reliable source of Energy. Wind is a legitimate Demestic Source of Energy.
Now, if it conflicts with porperties, and Companies / Government wrongfully evict landowners, then that's a different story, and needs to be addressed. Wind in general, however, isn't the root problem.
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People are barking up the wrong tree by promoting, or succumbing to, wind turbine construction regardless of where it is proposed and how many there might be. Many North Americans are infected with tunnel vision and erroneously appear to believe that turbine generated energy is somehow linked to reversing the growth in and impact of Green House Gas (GHG) emissions.
There exists NO evidence anywhere that Turbine energy is substituting for or displacing fossil fuel dependence, nor is there any evidence that it is in any material way slowing the rate of GHG emission growth. Turbine energy is a non factor in the never ending growth agenda of the fossil fuel industry, and it is not a factor in the agenda of governments promoting growth in and dependence on oil and gas consumption. There can be no better example than North America of the failure of turbine energy to slow growth in anything.
People have been hoodwinked into promoting wind turbine energy as some sort of Nirvana all while human population growth and per capita energy consumption continue to spiral upward. Turbine energy generation is fueling growth in human population and energy consumption and growth in a false “economy”. It is NOT doing the opposite. Matching the folly of the energy replacement misunderstanding is denial by governments and promoters of the ecological impacts and health effects of turbines; the ugly reality is that they are a serious addition to the industrialization of quiet rural landscapes that people have long valued for quality of life, retirement, and recreation.
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Close this window Jump to comment formEminent domain is a separate issue from Wind Development. The bottom line is that any Economy must have a reliable source of Energy. Wind is a legitimate Demestic Source of Energy.
Now, if it conflicts with porperties, and Companies / Government wrongfully evict landowners, then that's a different story, and needs to be addressed. Wind in general, however, isn't the root problem.
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