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Windfarms the New Blight

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Tuesday May 13, 2003 13:52

by Leon - No More Windfarms

nomorewindfarms at yahoo dot com

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Lets join together nationally to help stop windfarms and change government policy.

Windfarms are inefficient energy producers, Despoil the countryside and kill birds. Why are they still being built. Think of all the energy they waste spinning those blades around

Like some robotic infection corrupting the Irish countryside the windfarm virus continues to spread.
The welcome introduction of the plastic bag levy has reduced (though not eleiminated) that disgusting symbol of our private wealth and public squalor. A new sign emerges the windfarm.

Windfarms provide negligible amounts of electrictity in exchange for massive damage to our scenery and to ireland's fragile bird populations.

These eyesores will ruin tourism wherever they are erected.
The British government has accepted a link between pylons and cancer. Pylons follow windfarms as the plague follows rats.

Why are windfarm's still being built? In this country when no clear reason for public policy can be found we should look for reasons in opaque brown envelopes.

The government's Strategy for Intensifying Wind Energy Deployment explicitly invites County Councillors to invest in windfarms in their localities (p 95) and further emphasises that this may be a means for encouraging Local Authorities to grant planning permission.

The largest wind energy company in this country is owned by NTR. NTR has admitted to paying Liam Lawlor IRP 74,000.

The Danes have over 4,900 wind turbines these produce less than seven per cent of that country's electricity. How many must we have for them to make any impact. How many landscapes will they destroy?

So far anti windfarm campaigns have been local.

When they win or lose the campaign disintegrates.

Lets keep that energy going nationally, lets cooperate and collaborate to get these ridiculous monstrosities stopped for good.

Lets do something about it.

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Comments (47 of 47)

#	Title	Author	Date
1	Hello?	Noel Hogan	Tue May 13, 2003 14:04
2	you are tilting against windmils	pat c	Tue May 13, 2003 14:06
3	Wind Farms are the Future	Bart B	Tue May 13, 2003 14:22
4	To leon	tom	Tue May 13, 2003 14:22
5	Joe Schmoe	Joe Schmoe	Tue May 13, 2003 14:23
6	Windmills yes yes.	don iosaf de quixote	Tue May 13, 2003 14:26
7	Hemp and other energy crops	Raymond McInerney	Tue May 13, 2003 14:39
8	Windfarms are a positive development	Manus	Tue May 13, 2003 14:43
9	Well said Bart...	jj curly kale	Tue May 13, 2003 14:53
10	bullshit	conor mc gowan	Tue May 13, 2003 14:54
11	too many bananas!	pete ranks	Tue May 13, 2003 14:55
12	tail wagging dog	A nitpicking nerd	Tue May 13, 2003 14:58
13	Troll	Albo	Tue May 13, 2003 15:27
14	Hi Raymond!	iosaf	Tue May 13, 2003 15:28
15	Thanks Iosaf	Raymond McInerney	Tue May 13, 2003 15:40
16	no prob. Raymond.	iosaf	Tue May 13, 2003 15:46
17	Windfarms Not Green may be useful in 2020 but useless now	Leon	Tue May 13, 2003 15:53
18	Mail me to set up public meeting	Leon	Tue May 13, 2003 15:55
19	Ray watch out for those windfarm! they'll can clip your ears	Mr. Bree	Tue May 13, 2003 15:58
20	Re: Mail me to set up public meeting	Ray McInerney	Tue May 13, 2003 15:59
21	Some Cold Hard Facts	Bart B	Tue May 13, 2003 15:59
22	Manus	Ray McInerney	Tue May 13, 2003 16:01
23	leon	conor	Tue May 13, 2003 16:20
24	Alernatives please	Sidlebar	Tue May 13, 2003 16:21
25	leon, don't associate me with mr myers thank you very much.	pete ranks	Tue May 13, 2003 16:24
26	A fatuous point	JohnCunningham	Tue May 13, 2003 16:29
27	Democratic control over our energy supply and more	Terry	Tue May 13, 2003 16:56
28	Hello to Manus and Raymond	Alex	Tue May 13, 2003 17:30
29	simple solution	dowtcha	Tue May 13, 2003 17:55
30	in support of above.	iosaf	Tue May 13, 2003 19:24
31	Issues around Planning and how we value our Public Space	Leon	Tue May 13, 2003 20:00
32	He's wrong about Windmills but...	Limerick Lady	Tue May 13, 2003 20:15
33	Energy	Wind power	Tue May 13, 2003 22:01
34	And as for hydro electricity.....	Killian	Tue May 13, 2003 22:12
35	Suggestion	Jame McKenna	Wed May 14, 2003 07:28
36	How About A Windfarm At The Next IAWM Conference?	pat c	Wed May 14, 2003 11:30
37	Windfarms cause corruption?	Noel Hogan	Wed May 14, 2003 12:27
38	Re: Windfarms cause corruption	Terry	Wed May 14, 2003 14:28
39	Windfarms cause coruption?	biggles	Wed May 14, 2003 15:52
40	Wind Power the solution for corruption.	iosaf	Wed May 14, 2003 16:04
41	Portstewart and the ongoing debate...	Chris Henry	Wed May 14, 2003 21:18
42	No option is perfect..	Gaillimhed	Thu May 15, 2003 15:32
43	historical note	iosaf i'm taking the piss. sorry.	Thu May 15, 2003 20:52
44	rise up and take a bow sir bernard	barry	Fri May 16, 2003 00:50
45	Windfarms and the Privatisation agenda	Leon	Fri May 16, 2003 12:24
46	Yes, but	Gaillimhed	Fri May 16, 2003 17:15
47	"Spirit of Ireland "plan.	Pete.	Thu Jul 02, 2009 16:06

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