{"id":26206,"date":"2013-06-19T12:48:53","date_gmt":"2013-06-19T16:48:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/static\/?p=26206"},"modified":"2013-06-19T15:15:12","modified_gmt":"2013-06-19T19:15:12","slug":"why-i-call-wind-turbines-bat-chomping-bird-slicing-eco-crucifixes-united-kingdom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/2013\/why-i-call-wind-turbines-bat-chomping-bird-slicing-eco-crucifixes-united-kingdom\/","title":{"rendered":"“Why I call wind turbines bat-chomping, bird-slicing eco-crucifixes” (United Kingdom)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n“Why do I call them bat-chomping, bird-slicing eco-crucifixes?”<\/h3>\n

—James Delingpole, The Telegraph<\/a> (6\/17\/13)<\/p>\n

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Gull decapitated by a Brighton wind turbine (\u00a9\u00a0Marian Cleary)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

I wonder what it will take before the world truly wakes up to the horror, the corruption, the expense, the pointlessness, the total wrongness-in-every-way of the wind industry. \u00a0My guess \u2013 and it will happen \u2013 is the decapitation, by a rogue turbine blade, of an innocent passer-by.<\/p>\n

Till then, though, we have photographs like this to send the mind boggling as to why anyone, anywhere can still be so purblind as to go on championing these bat-chomping, bird-slicing eco crucifixes. \u00a0What’s particularly interesting about this one is that it was taken in the constituency of one of wind power’s most fervent and tireless advocates, Caroline Lucas MP.<\/p>\n

Here’s a picture of the Brighton Bird Chomper.<\/p>\n

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Brighton Bird Chomper (\u00a9\u00a0Marian Cleary)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

And here is another picture of the hapless gull.<\/p>\n

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Marian Cleary \u2013 who Tweets as @soundwords \u2013 takes up the story on Twitter:<\/p>\n

All quite horrific really. Been asked if it’s photoshopped. Nope. Was at Varndean College, Brighton.<\/p>\n

The wind turbine was going bonkers so I was filming it with the clouds moving behind the blades.<\/p>\n

I didn’t get the incident on film but then a guy called me over and said that the bird had been got.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Careful, Marian. \u00a0You now run the risk that someone from the wind industry will claim you chopped off that gull’s head yourself, probably because you are in the pay of Big Oil. . . .<\/p>\n

Now it might have been interesting to ring up the RSPB for a reaction. \u00a0But there’s no point\u00a0because we know what they think already.<\/a>\u00a0 As far as the RSPB is concerned, the many thousands of birds destroyed by wind turbines each year are acceptable collateral damage in the war on “climate change.” \u00a0So committed is the Royal Society for the Prevention of Birds to renewable energy that it has actually teamed up with Ecotricity \u2013 the one run by Dale Vince \u2013 in a promotional deal to encourage more wind farm building. \u00a0For chapter and verse, read my expose here.<\/a><\/p>\n

But the birds and bats are the least of it, terrible though the carnage is. \u00a0It’s the human cost, surely, which should concern us more.<\/p>\n

Consider the plight of the communities in Canada, where the wind industry is even more aggressive than it is here. \u00a0One Ontario resident,\u00a0Esther Wrightman<\/a>,\u00a0so objected to the Golgotha of 400 foot wind turbines being planned for her area that she created a satirical website mocking the wind developer NextEra energy. \u00a0She even filmed them chopping down a tree with an eagle’s nest in it in order to make way for the turbines. \u00a0How did NextEra \u2013 market capitalisation $32 billion \u2013 respond to her not exactly unreasonable objections? \u00a0Why by suing the pants off her, of course.<\/p>\n

Fortunately, thanks to\u00a0the coverage it has been getting from Ezra Levant<\/a>, Esther Wrightman’s story is becoming an international cause celebre \u2013 and the rent-seeking nasties at NextEra are getting the negative publicity they fully deserve.<\/p>\n

So the anti-wind backlash has begun, of that there’s no doubt. \u00a0In Australia, where resistance is especially strong, they’re holding a rally in the next few hours in Canberra to protest against an industry described by Alby Schultz MP as “the biggest government sponsored fraud in the history of our country,” so rife with “manipulation, intimidation, lies and cover-up” that there’s enough evidence to justify a royal commission. \u00a0I wish I could be there at the barricades with my Aussie mates.<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0Sounds like it’s going to be quite an occasion.<\/a><\/p>\n

What I wish is that one of our MPs could be quite as outspoken as good old Alby. \u00a0Chris Heaton Harris has fought a good fight, as have Owen Paterson, John Hayes, Peter Lilley and Glyn Davies. \u00a0But they’ve all been hamstrung by the presence in the Coalition of ideological eco-loons like Ed Davey who, even now, despite the copious evidence against, persist in championing wind energy as the way forward. \u00a0They’re further hamstrung by the Conservative party’s ludicrous policy fudge whereby, apparently, there is such a thing as a “wind turbine in the right place” and that this mythical beast includes all offshore wind developments.<\/p>\n

Economically, of course, offshore wind makes even less sense than onshore, not least because it requires twice the subsidy, but also because, as most engineers privately admit, these sea-based turbines are disasters waiting to happen and are highly unlikely to stay up any length of time. \u00a0And while we’re on this subject, what on earth is The Times doing shilling for Big Wind with\u00a0this utter non-story about how Donald Trump is apparently threatening to cost “British SMEs dear”<\/a>\u00a0thanks to his opposition to an offshore wind development near his golf course in Scotland? \u00a0The supposedly neutral source they quote for this story is The Carbon Trust, the government quango to which we taxpayers must contribute \u00a344 million a year to enable it to dream up inventive new ways to cripple our economy with carbon emissions reductions schemes.<\/p>\n

Yet another reason to vote UKIP, the only British party with a sensible policy on this green nonsense.<\/p>\n

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This image was not included in the original article . “Why do I call them bat-chomping, bird-slicing eco-crucifixes?” —James Delingpole, The Telegraph (6\/17\/13) . Gull decapitated by a Brighton wind turbine (\u00a9\u00a0Marian Cleary) I wonder what it will take before the world truly wakes up to the horror, the corruption, the expense, the pointlessness, the total wrongness-in-every-way of the wind industry. \u00a0My guess \u2013 and it will happen \u2013 is the decapitation, by a rogue turbine blade, of an innocent passer-by. Till then, though, we have photographs like this to send the mind boggling as to why anyone, anywhere can still be so purblind as to go on championing these bat-chomping, bird-slicing eco crucifixes. \u00a0What’s particularly interesting about this one is that it was taken in the constituency of one of wind power’s most fervent and tireless advocates, Caroline Lucas MP. Here’s a picture of the Brighton Bird Chomper. Brighton Bird Chomper (\u00a9\u00a0Marian Cleary) And here is another picture of the hapless gull. \u00a9\u00a0Marian Cleary Marian Cleary \u2013 who Tweets as @soundwords \u2013 takes up the story on Twitter: All quite horrific really. Been asked if it’s photoshopped. Nope. Was at Varndean College, Brighton. The wind turbine was going bonkers so I was filming it with the clouds moving behind the blades. I didn’t get the incident on film but then a guy called me over and said that the bird had been got. Careful, Marian. \u00a0You now run the risk that someone from the wind industry will claim you chopped off that gull’s head yourself, probably because you are in the pay of Big Oil. . . . Now it might have been interesting to ring up the RSPB for a reaction. \u00a0But there’s no point\u00a0because we know what they think already.\u00a0 As far as the RSPB is concerned,Read More…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[172,157,16,169,173],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26206"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26206\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}