{"id":306615,"date":"2024-03-09T11:49:23","date_gmt":"2024-03-09T10:49:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=306615"},"modified":"2024-03-09T11:49:25","modified_gmt":"2024-03-09T10:49:25","slug":"germany-begins-felling-120000-trees-from-fairy-tale-forest-to-make-way-for-wind-turbines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=306615","title":{"rendered":"Germany Begins Felling 120,000 Trees From \u2018Fairy Tale\u2019 Forest to Make Way for Wind Turbines"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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From The Daily Sceptic<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

BY\u00a0CHRIS MORRISON<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The windmills are spinning golden subsidies in the central German \u2018fairy tale\u2019 forest of Reinhardswald, but the payment is the partial destruction of the 1,000 year-old ancient wood itself. Work has started on the clearing of up to 120,000 trees in the forest, the setting for many of the Brothers Grimm mythical stories, to provide access for an initial 18 giant wind turbines around the Sababurg \u2018Sleeping Beauty\u2019 castle. Who is opposing this massive destruction of the ancient forest teeming with wildlife with trees over 200 years old? Certainly not the Green party, now in power at national and local level. In fact the project is being led by local Hesse Green Minister Priska Hinz who is reported to have said<\/a>: \u201cWind energy makes a decisive contribution to the energy transition and the preservation of nature. It is the only way to preserve forests and important ecosystems.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There is some local press interest in Germany about the destruction of part of the forest that covers a 200 square kilometre area. Nevertheless, the mainstream media generally keep well away from covering environmental destruction when the Greens are doing it in the claimed cause of saving the planet. The BBC did cover the story under the headline \u2018Battle over wind turbines in the land of Sleeping Beauty<\/a>\u2018, but that was in 2013 when plans for the industrial development were first announced. It seems that the state-reliant broadcaster is less interested now that the Big Bad Wolf has finally made a meal of Little Red Riding Hood.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pierre Gosselin, who runs the German-based science site No Tricks Zone,<\/em> has been covering the outrage<\/a> felt in a number of German quarters at the plans to destroy some of the Reinhardswald forest in the interest of inferior green technology. He feels the affair shows what an inefficient and costly scam green energy is. \u201cIt\u2019s not cost-free, it\u2019s full of corrupt and unresponsive politicians who no longer care about democracy, and it certainly doesn\u2019t make the environment better. It\u2019s a nasty juggernaut of waste, fraud, corruption and ecological degradation \u2013 with dead birds, turbine vibration sickness, strobe dizziness and landscape pollution,\u201d he adds<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Guardian<\/em> has been curiously silent over the clearing of woodland to build wind turbines in Hesse. In 2020 it was less reticent<\/a> about reporting on the construction of a 3 km highway in another Hessian forest at Dannenroder. Thousands of climate activists gathered on the site north of Frankfurt, it reported. Dannenroder tree-felling would be a catastrophe, environmental campaigners are reported to have said. \u201cSome parts of this forest are 250 years old,\u201d noted Nicola Uhde of the German Federation for the Environment and Nature Conservation (Bund), \u201cand there is simply not much of this kind of woodland around anymore.\u201d At the time, the Guardian<\/em> noted the fate of Dannenroder was a \u201clitmus test for the Green party\u201d which governed the state as part of a coalition. It seems to have been remiss in not suggesting such a test with the Reinhardswald deforestation. But then it seems none of the usual climate activists have been protesting about the loss of trees and wildlife habitat on this occasion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Daily Sceptic<\/em> has reported on numerous recent examples<\/a> where the lack of interest in ecological damage is a feature of green industrial development. Last month, we noted that one of India\u2019s iconic large birds, the great Indian bustard, was on the verge of extinction due to the growth of electric power lines in its home area of the Thar desert. To reach global Net Zero, it has been estimated that new power lines equivalent to circling the globe 2,000 times will need to be built in the next few years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last October, we reported<\/a> that wind farms in Tasmania had reduced the population of the endangered local wedge-tailed eagle to around 1,000 individuals. Across the world, millions of bats are being chewed by giant wind blades. Any animal that relies on wind currents for flight such as a large raptor is at risk of being sucked into the whirling machines. In California, the Democrat-controlled state Government recently relaxed controls on wildlife protections to allow permits to kill previously fully protected species for renewable infrastructure projects. Despite an increased risk to America\u2019s national bird, the bald eagle, barely a peep of protest was recorded. Off America\u2019s eastern coast, massive industrial parks are being constructed for wind turbines. It might be a coincidence that hundreds of whales have beached along the shore in recent years, but a more likely explanation is the deafening sonar noise, constant pile driving, extensive ocean building works and heavy shipping movements.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

None of the above are likely to feature when the magic mirror is asked: \u201cMirror, mirror on the wall, who\u2019s the greenest one of all?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chris Morrison is the<\/em>\u00a0Daily Sceptic\u2019s<\/em>\u00a0Environment Editor.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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