Knock Iveagh’s community defenders have been fighting for remove hideous wind turbines from their emerald green landscape for years. Now, having delivered the knockout blow, locals are understandably delighted with their hard-fought victory. Get turbine down without delay - Knock Iveagh campaigners' delight as council calls for removal The County Down Outlook Matthew Dawson … Continue reading Knocked Out: Irish Delighted at Decision to Rid County of Hideous Wind Turbines
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Farmers Fightback: Rural Americans Sick & Tired of Wind Developer Lies, Trickery & Deceit
The wind industry was built on lies and runs on subsidies. The people that pay the subsidies are growing sick and tired of the lies. Which is why the wind industry has never had it so tough: subsidies are being slashed, destroying their ‘business’ model and rural communities are in full-scale revolt, sick of being … Continue reading Farmers Fightback: Rural Americans Sick & Tired of Wind Developer Lies, Trickery & Deceit
Renewables Rejected: Community Backlash Forces Californian Counties to Ban Giant Wind & Solar Projects
Community hostility to industrial wind power is inevitable, when the community in question is the one that ends up with 300 tonne monsters speared in its backyard. The characters that never leave the inner-city latte zone are more than happy to destroy your rural landscape, your peaceful rural way of life and the value … Continue reading Renewables Rejected: Community Backlash Forces Californian Counties to Ban Giant Wind & Solar Projects
American Resistance: Rural Communities Reject Destructive & Disruptive Wind Power Projects
One wind industry myth is that farmers and families can’t wait to have 300 tonne wind turbines speared into their backyards. A raft of litigation, protests and open hostility to the wind industry, in general, and wind developers, in particular, suggests otherwise. As Robert Bryce details below, rural communities are not prepared to give up the … Continue reading American Resistance: Rural Communities Reject Destructive & Disruptive Wind Power Projects
Minnesota Meltdown: Farmers Declare Wind Farms a ‘No-Win’ for Rural America
Given the choice, no sentient being would ever tolerate an industrial wind turbine anywhere near their home or property. Merrily wrecking rural communities wherever it goes, the wind industry is facing real, red-blooded American resistance across the Midwest. In this piece from Minnesota’s The Globe, locals lament the day the wind industry rolled into … Continue reading Minnesota Meltdown: Farmers Declare Wind Farms a ‘No-Win’ for Rural America
Industrial Onslaught: Wind Turbines The Gold Standard in Rural Community Destruction
The furious reaction that erupts whenever wind developers turn up in peaceful rural communities is now one of life’s immutable laws. Across the Land of the Free, there is a seething tide of frustration and anger that has seen thousands of community defenders rally in order to keep it that way; from Arkansas to Ohio … Continue reading Industrial Onslaught: Wind Turbines The Gold Standard in Rural Community Destruction
Revolution RoadMap: Fighting Big Wind Means Getting Organised, No Retreat & No Surrender
Throughout history there’s been a pretty neat correlation between fighting and winning. And, so it is, that the communities that go all out in head-to-head battles with wind power outfits – out to destroy their lives and livelihoods – keep clocking up victories. “If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not … Continue reading Revolution RoadMap: Fighting Big Wind Means Getting Organised, No Retreat & No Surrender
Locals Take Wind Industry to UN Over Its Destruction of Ontario’s Water Supply
The wind industry has all but destroyed water supplies in Chatham-Kent, Ontario. Hammering hundreds of giant steel piles (the foundations for 300 tonne turbines) into the aquifer across the county has turned once potable water into a grimy, toxic sludge. Locals are, justifiably, incensed. Losing their water supply would be bad enough, and being lied … Continue reading Locals Take Wind Industry to UN Over Its Destruction of Ontario’s Water Supply
Wind Farm Neighbours Forced to Sign Away All Legal Rights in ‘Good Neighbour Agreements’
Remember all those glowing stories about wind 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 are viewed with … Continue reading Wind Farm Neighbours Forced to Sign Away All Legal Rights in ‘Good Neighbour Agreements’
Vietnam Goes to War: Community Defenders Riot Over Planned Wind Farm Project
There are several immutable laws, such as the furious reaction that erupts whenever plans emerge to spear wind turbines into the heart of rural communities. A few weeks back, we covered the outrage that’s erupted among South Korean farming communities over a wind farm, the noise from which is not only driving neighbours nuts, but, … Continue reading Vietnam Goes to War: Community Defenders Riot Over Planned Wind Farm Project
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