I was the chief project engineer on an electric utility 25 MW windfarm project that was eventually cancelled. People brought up EMF, TV/radio interference, bird strikes, visual polution, noise, damage to local climate, all kinds of things. Somebody is against everything, especially if it is in their back yard.
I was also the chief licensing/permitting engineer on another power project that included a letter protesting the development by a branch of the Sierra Club to anything that included wind, solar (yes solar), ocean thermal, geothermal, coal, nuclear, combined cycle combustion turbines, etc. Like I said they were against, wind, solar, ocean thermal, geothermal, the whole nine yards.
To some environmentalist and liberals, just like guns, energy generation is inherently evil and must be stopped. After all Ammory Lovins once said giving the US an abundant supply of cheap energy would be the moral equivalent of giving an idiot child a machine gun.
I was the salesman and consultant for a small (8MW) cogeneration system in CA and experienced similar problems getting it permitted even though we were lowering the company's total emmissions.. We succeeded by hiring politically connected consultants.
We know that the environmentalists, just like the feminists and all other front organizations the left hides behind, care nothing about their supposed causes but are instead only interested in retarding American progress. They are anti-American, period. Too bad our natural compassion and sense of fair play make us patsies for those schemers.
COOL! I'm not worthy!
Too bad it was cancelled. I'm amazed to hear that anyone could be against wind power. They are the perfect solution to all of our energy problems.
A building or a dam at least has form...not just a pole with a prop.
170 windmills, each 40 stories tall,....GAG!