Clear away with your useless turbines
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This is a song based on our experience of wind farm planning applications in the Glenties/Ardara area of County Donegal, Ireland.
The furtive secrecy, the lack of public consultation, the absence of cost/benefit analysis,the lies about employment, the environmental destruction caused by wind farming and its associated industries, and the need for communities to simply say no, not under these conditions.
—Glenties Windfarm Information Group, 2015
stopthesethings.com/2014/08/16/how-much-co2-gets-emitted-to-build-a-wind-turbine/
irishenergyblog.blogspot.ie/2015/04/cost-benefit-analysis-obligations-for.html
www.bbc.com/future/story/20150402-the-worst-place-on-earth
First they came all sneaky, calling in the night,
A bottle of whiskey in one hand, and a yard of thigh in sight.
Chorus:
So clear away, clear away,
clear away with your useless turbines,
clear away from Donegal.
The Spanish and the Portugeese are putting turbines up,
Their agent bums his load on jobs, but he’s a lying pup.
Chorus
The mighty words of wisdom we heard from that man’s mouth,
Of how the wealth from turbines would flourish north and south.
Chorus
The jobs that we were promised, the reductions to our bills,
All propaganda, now replaced by destruction of our hills.
Chorus
They talk about green energy, keeping carbon emissions down,
But they never tell us of the cost to make these things go ’round.
Chorus
Mining magnets for the motors makes deformities we know,
Smelting steel and making cement is not the way to go
Chorus
Cutting down our forestry, digging up our peat,
leaking carbon everywhere, the purpose to defeat.
Chorus
So no local jobs, no local power, just destruction of our land
It’s time to tell our Government, this is more than we will stand.
Chorus
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