Giving ‘renewable’ a bad name
Rutland Herald via Grandpa's Knob Wind Project September 26, 2012
I recently read David Blittersdorf’s article in the Green Energy Times. He seems to like labels like “environmentalists” for both individuals and institutions. He includes the Vermont Natural Resources Council among them who, as he says, are blinded by their own inaccurate information. He uses the label wind opponents, which is incomplete in itself, as they are actually destructive industrial wind opponents. Who wouldn’t oppose the destruction of Vermont ridgelines for huge corporate profits?
Blittersdorf and all other industrial wind developers like the label of wind farms. Who ever heard of a farm devastating the land it sits on? He talks about the industrial wind opponents he says are the biggest storytellers of detrimental fiction he has ever seen. But take a look at Lowell Mountain. Is that devastating destruction only fiction?
These industrial wind developers wanting to be labeled as saviors from global warming might actually be more correctly labeled political opportunists and modern day carpetbaggers. By making contributions to political leaders such as Gov. Shumlin in order to create their own politically friendly opportunity and by taking advantage of financially stressed towns, they fit both of these labels.
Mr. Blittersdorf likes the label renewable, but how does an industry, namely industrial wind, that destroys delicate ecosystems and causes irreparable damage and destruction to the very essence of Vermont, the ridgelines themselves, call itself renewable? This industry gives the term renewable a bad name; e.g. Lowell Mountain again.
Using one of Mr. Blittersdorf’s own phases, “What was most disheartening was the knowledge that all of this waste and degradation is extremely shortsighted.” Could it be all for personal gain and profit? Blittersdorf says he wants the majority of the population to move to cities and towns. Surely he has forgotten what rural Vermont means. And by destroying Vermont ridgelines he has also forgotten what Vermont means.
What’s in a label anyways? Does it all mean “all for profit”?
ALLEN A. MILLS
Florence
URL to article: https://www.wind-watch.org/news/2012/09/27/giving-renewable-a-bad-name/