{"id":251958,"date":"2023-04-09T15:38:28","date_gmt":"2023-04-09T13:38:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=251958"},"modified":"2023-04-09T15:38:30","modified_gmt":"2023-04-09T13:38:30","slug":"if-your-communitys-fighting-the-wind-industry-keep-fighting-no-matter-what","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=251958","title":{"rendered":"If Your Community\u2019s Fighting the Wind Industry \u2013 Keep Fighting, No Matter What"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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No matter where the wind industry plies its subsidy-soaked trade, rural folk soon turn hostile. Smart communities start fighting early and never give up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the US, the wind industry is on the back foot<\/a>, with well-organised and furious rural residents \u2013 fed up with being driven nuts in their homes, or being driven out of them altogether, by incessant low-frequency noise and infrasound \u2013 blocking projects and taking developers to court. The Americans tend to do their homework and understand perfectly well how utterly pointless wind power is, simply because it can never be delivered as and when consumers demand it and wouldn\u2019t signify in the absence of massive and endless subsidies. Starting from that incontrovertibly sound basis, the argument against installing guaranteed community wreckers wins itself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, those characters who (foolishly) claim to be all in favour of renewable energy \u2013 provided it\u2019s in someone else\u2019s backyard \u2013 usually end up living cheek by jowl with 180m high monsters thumping and grinding away at night, ruining their lives, forever. Call them \u2018unwitting roadkill\u2019 or as Fiona O\u2019Connell described them, \u2018lambs to the slaughter\u2019, the miserable results are all the same.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

People living near wind farms are sacrificial lambs to greed<\/strong>
Independent.ie
Fiona O\u2019Connell
26 March 2023<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lambs are frolicking as Easter approaches, though there are sacrificial lambs across this land in the form of those desperately unlucky folk who live close to wind farms and have to bear the brunt of the devastating downsides for the sake of their supposed benefits for the rest of us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They describe \u201cnose bleeds\u201d and other health issues that accompany the shadow flicker and noise of industrial scale turbines as a never-ending nightmare. For there is no escape, what with the value of their house gone with the wind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s insane how normal it is to see posters protesting against wind farms pinned up wherever you go in this country. And even more bizarre is how the bigger the development, the better their chance of success, as they then go straight to An Bord Plean\u00e1la (ABP), where objections by locals carry little weight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But they keep fighting, propelled by the lived experience of affected communities. I bump into one mother-of-two and hear how herself and her husband have managed to scrape together their \u20ac360 share towards the latest legal challenge against a development that would be less than 2km from their home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is far from the only one in the pipeline for this inland county. I answer the door a few weeks later to a man who has tracked me down after someone gave him a piece I wrote in this newspaper about wind farms. These communities feel so desperate, so unheard and ignored, their voices drowned out by the purported benefits of wind farms that no one can hear them, or no one wants to hear them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These people are as forgotten as those monstrous turbines that threaten their lives but which the rest of us don\u2019t have to deal with, or so we think, as they turn to anyone who might be able to help.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An industrial development of at least 520 acres is planned for the Coppenagh Gap, Co Kilkenny. Residents set up \u201cSave our Valley\u201d after they were informed last March that a German company with a fossil fuel background is to seek planning permission for 180-metre turbines in their valley that is home to some 150 families and a chequerboard of small farms, marshland, rocky outcrops, and pristine mountain streams.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Though the development could end up bigger: \u201cindicative\u201d maps shared ahead of submitting a planning application show the scale of the site \u201cgrew\u201d between March and July last year. That\u2019s certainly the pattern with other developments, where opening the door to one means there will likely be more on the horizon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe are trying to protect our way of life and preserve the county\u2019s landscapes for future generations,\u201d spokesperson Anne Lacey says. \u201cWhy are our rights being ignored?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201dMaybe because the green energy at stake is the obvious one. \u201cWind is Ireland\u2019s oil,\u201d Miche\u00e1l Martin declared at Davos last year. Certainly, these communities think the Government is behaving with the same flagrant disregard for the democratic rights of rural citizens as any of those oil-rich Arab countries.\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our community is reeling, defenceless and angry,\u201d Lacey says. \u201cPolitical parties happily sacrifice rural Ireland as a soft option for their lack of a long-term offshore energy strategy.\u201d\u200bWhat\u2019s worse is \u201ceven when the council rejects applications robustly, energy companies appeal to ABP,\u201d Lacey explains. \u201cResidents are left to defend themselves at huge personal risk and cost, with no access to the legal and technical resources that multinationals bring to bear.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There can also be a lack of solidarity from the wider community, thanks to the \u201ccommunity funds\u201d that accompany these developments which add a twist to the Nimby pejorative \u201cnot in my backyard\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As one resident who would have a wind farm on his doorstep says about local GAA clubs who backed it after receiving funding two years before the proposal was even made: \u201cThey live 7km away in the village \u2013 they\u2019ve no business supporting it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yet we are all connected and will eventually suffer the consequences. So best beware the wolf in sheep\u2019s clothing of pay offs, or prepare to become another lamb to the slaughter.
Indepenedent.ie<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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