Windfarms the New Blight

national | miscellaneous | news report Tuesday May 13, 2003 13:52 by Leon - No More Windfarms nomorewindfarms at yahoo dot com

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.