A FLIGHTY WIND

[Susan Gawarecki <loc@icx.net>]

The Guardian article (link below) goes into more detail on the wind vs. 

nuclear debate in England.



--Susan Gawarecki



A FLIGHTY WIND

Wind Power Sparks Controversy Across Western Europe



In Western European countries, where thousands of wind farms are 

sprouting up across the landscape, fierce bickering has broken out over 

the benefits and drawbacks of wind energy.  In the U.K. and Germany, 

activists and rural residents are waging a ferocious battle against what 

the Germans call "Verspargelung der Landschaft" -- the transformation of 

the landscape into an asparagus field.  While renewable energy in 

general enjoys wide public support -- and heavy government subsidies -- 

in these countries, wind farms have drawn the ire of groups that claim 

they foul the landscape, create noise pollution, kill birds, and cost 

vastly more than most other sources of energy.  U.K. conservationist 

David Bellamy calls wind power "sheer lunacy" and says "it beggars 

belief that some environmental groups say [wind turbines] are 'green.'"  

In turn, Tony Juniper of Friends of the Earth U.K. calls anti-wind 

forces "parochial, shortsighted, selfish, peddling falsehoods and 

misconceptions." Wind-power advocates say that, in order to stave off 

climate change and a resurgence of nuclear power, society needs to use 

what clean-energy sources are available, and for now, that's wind.



straight to the source:  The Guardian, John Vidal, 07 May 2004

<http://www.gristmagazine.com/cgi-bin/forward.pl?forward_id=2426>



straight to the source:  The Christian Science Monitor, Charles Hawley, 

05 May 2004

<http://www.gristmagazine.com/cgi-bin/forward.pl?forward_id=2428>





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