Eco-zealots, like Bill McKibben reckon rural folk just can’t wait to get 240m high wind turbines whirling in their backyard; and that if they express any resistance to such a ‘golden opportunity’, it’s all down to the nefarious activities of ‘evil’ fossil fuel overlords and right wingers spreading “misinformation” about how wonderful it is … Continue reading Not In Anyone’s Backyard: The Truth Behind Rural America’s Great Wind & Solar Backlash
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Battle Lines: American Farmers Winning War Against Lying, Greedy Wind & Solar Outfits
Remember all those glowing stories about wind and solar power outfits being welcomed into rural communities with open arms? You know, tales about how farmers are dying to have turbines lined up all over their properties? How locals can’t wait to pick up some of the thousands of permanent, high paying jobs on offer? How developers … Continue reading Battle Lines: American Farmers Winning War Against Lying, Greedy Wind & Solar Outfits
No ‘Green’ New Deal: Rural America Rejects Wind Industry’s Community Wrecking Agenda
The wind industry’s efforts to destroy America’s rural communities have been brought to a shuddering halt. Across the States, well-organised pro-community and pro-reliable energy groups have won victory after victory, sending crony capitalists and subsidy-seeking carpetbaggers packing. That hard-working farmers and rural folk would reject the pitch that 600-700 foot high wind turbines and endless … Continue reading No ‘Green’ New Deal: Rural America Rejects Wind Industry’s Community Wrecking Agenda
American Farmers First: Community Fightback Ends Wind Industry’s Onslaught in Ohio
All winners start out as fighters. So it is in Ohio, where locals have brought the wind industry’s rural onslaught to a shuddering halt. Ohio’s legislature has introduced a raft of new rules which, had they been in force a decade ago, would have saved rural Ohio from subsidy sucking rent-seekers eager to ruin the … Continue reading American Farmers First: Community Fightback Ends Wind Industry’s Onslaught in Ohio
Not In Anyone’s Backyard: Rural Americans Winning the Battle Against Industrial Wind Power
The only way to prevent industrial wind power destroying your community is to fight, and that’s exactly what Americans are doing across its heartland. Applying pressure to local governments and authorities, rural Americans are getting them onside and against the wind industry, with hundreds of projects rejected. Robert Bryce has been following this battle for … Continue reading Not In Anyone’s Backyard: Rural Americans Winning the Battle Against Industrial Wind Power
Bullying, Lies & Deceit: Just Another Day’s Work For The Wind Industry
In order to worm their way into rural communities, wind industry goons employ a mix of varnished lies, deceit and old-school thuggery. Over the last decade, wind power outfits have been able to beguile the gullible and hoodwink the unsuspecting. They usually start with a colossal lie and work up from there. However, as soon … Continue reading Bullying, Lies & Deceit: Just Another Day’s Work For The Wind Industry
People Power: American Communities Unite to Oppose Industrial Wind Power
The only people not opposed to wind power are those who have no idea about the greatest fraud of all time or those who do, with serious skin in the game. Community division follows every wind farm proposal and the hostility soon spreads. Fed up with the liars and charlatans who front wind power outfits, … Continue reading People Power: American Communities Unite to Oppose Industrial Wind Power
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