The wind farm in the Serra del Tallat, located between Passanant i Belltall (Conca de Barbera) and Vallbona de les Monges (Urgell) ACN / Núria Torres
Posted on 05/18/2011 1:34:19 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
Mark Duchamp writes in with this news from the Lerida, Autonomous Community (state) of Catalonia, Spain:
A judge ordered the removal of 45 wind turbines on the grounds that planning laws were violated. There was no “general municipal plan” establishing a “reserva del suelo” – i.e. the land was not legally declared appropriate for the erection of wind turbines.
The wind farm in the Serra del Tallat, located between Passanant i Belltall (Conca de Barbera) and Vallbona de les Monges (Urgell) ACN / Núria Torres
Spanish Version:
http://www.lavanguardia.com/medio-ambiente/20110517/54155159411/un-juez-de-lerida-ordena-desmantelar-un-parque-eolico-de-45-molinos.html
English Version:
According to another article going back to January 22nd, Spanish architects from the Autonomous Community (state) of Cantabria complained that windfarms will make it impossible to have the southern valleys declared World Heritage Area, despite the many romanesque churches and buildings making them worthy of that designation.
http://www.amigosdelromanico.org/noticia/id_10032.html
"The federal government has to subsidize windmill production through production tax credits of about 1.8¢ per kilowatt. Wind Farms also receive an accelerated depreciation. Wind farms are also land intensive. They produce a fraction of the energy of a traditional power plant but they require 100 times the acreage.
From the National Center for Policy Analysis: to produce a 1000 megawatt power plant a wind farm would require 192,000 acres or 300 square miles. A nuclear plant would need about 1700 acres (or 2.65 mi2), and about 3 mi2 for a coal fired power plant. The transmission lines for the wind turbines would be massive, 12,000 miles just for the array."
As someone who has to deal with leftist-moonbat-initiated planning and zoning laws on a regular basis, and leftist-moon-bat eco-weinies on a not-quite-as-regular basis, all I have to say is, "That right there is FUNNY, I don't care who you are!"
Their dogma appears to have run over their karma.
Quite a while back, Glenn Beck had a Spanish politician on his show talking about how these bloodsuckers had drained the spanish economy and fled for greener pastures (The USA)
SOMEBODY is making a killer $$$$ (boatload of money), no?
First they charge large amount of money to put them up (since it is pioneering work, the cost would have been humongous).
Now, you don’t want them? ok, we can take them down, but it’s going to cost you ……
Well done!
“I never been to Spain”
I'll bet they could get some willing volunteers for a little plastique practice.
Thorium reactors NOW!
The latest news from Rand’s dystopia.
In other news the collective has approved candles for all citizen’s usage.
Wonder how many birds have been killed by these things?
Not to worry.
I'm sure in no time at all, the Spanish will begin work on a new monorail system...
If I were a Spanish architect, I would NOT want my area declared a World Heritage Area. Next thing you know, my choices would be micromanaged from Turtle Bay, New York, or is this something different?
What a thoroughly liberal and ugly landscape. Stupid environmentalists.
bttt
Isn’t that why they didn’t want them off of the Kennedy Compound?
disturbs the charm? you betcha..
as good an argument as any considering all the feathers and carrion left behind,, these are not the windmills of yore.. they are decimators of bird populii say some,, and when the wind don’t blow, they’re just there.. and it’s stinky... that’s why Ted and the Kennedys fought the offshore Massachusetts wind farm..
What’s the audubon society or sierra club to do? and where is PETA?
and then ya see where the Pacific Northwest has abundant hydro generated power and is scaling back wind power reliance? based on cost, I reckun. hydro is cheap
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