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Canadians Protest Wind Turbines
NIK282000 writes "Ontario farmers rallied in downtown Toronto to protest the subsidization of wind turbines. Several of the protesters stated that they fear for the the health of their families and that they refuse to live near wind turbines. Others fear that the value of their property will be reduced significantly by the presence of turbines. With the cost of gas and oil on its way up it's a wonder that any one would be against the use of renewable energy sources."
> it's a wonder that any one would be against the use of renewable energy sources.
Yea, it is totally outside yer understanding. That is the problem with greens, you really can't undertand how anyone could possibly disagree with a single one of your policies. After all, they are so self evidently perfect and all that.
On the other hand some of us understand NIMBY. While I too doubt the possibility for health problems for people miles/kilometers from one, or even directly under one for that matter, they will certainly lower property values. And if you are too close they can be noisy and a lot of the same hippies agitating for alternative energy find them an eyesore, again lowering property values.
Welcome to the real world. You end up having to stuff them in god awful places where almost nobody lives then lose too much current to wire losses and increased expenses to send people out to work on them. Then as soon as the government subsidies stop you lock the thing down because the unsubsidized operating costs often exceed the value of the electricity produced. But it looked so good on the glossy brocure to the stockholders and government regulating agencies handing out those sacks of cash.
Democrat delenda est
Alas, no - this is left wing crazies, not right wing ones.