Green party candidate upset about wind farm in his backyard
Former Green Independent gubernatorial candidate Jonathan Carter is opposing a proposed wind farm in northwestern Maine that just so happens to be in his backyard. NIMBYism at its best.
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With a name like that, it pretty much sums up what is done on these mountains. There are many, many more mountains on the chopping block. It is not green to support the blasting of mountaintops and these projects will not stop another oil spoil. If it would, I'd reconsider.
It is sure easy to paint someone a NIMBY in an attempt to elicit the chase instinct from many readers. But just because someting is in one's backyard doesn't make it good. I used to give wind power a free pass myself and then I studied it. With all due respect, if others study it carefully you may quickly come to the same realization I did - that it is all impact with almost no effect. The following fact-based presentation iluustrates this. ------
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The Natural Resources Council, Maine Audubon, and the Appalachian Mountain Club have also opposed erecting industrial wind turbines on mountain ridges.
I just read that 60 Earth First activists blocked the construction at Kibby Mountain in Maine last week. Four were arrested. Mr. Carter may have had his conscience raised by a proposal threatening his back yard, but he joins the growing number of environmentalists who recognize industrial wind as a destructive intrusion into wild areas.
.. and dingbats to the left. Of course there will be some disruption and impact. Is there anything that Earth First doesn't protest? Yes, there will certainly be drilling, and maybe a little blasting. You can't build a tower without solid footings.
Mr Carter is all for Wind Power, but not on top of Mountains ... which is where the wind is, and the Cape Cod NIMBYs are all for wind power that isn't in sight of their mansions.
Sheesh ... with friends like this, Mother Nature doesn't need.... More
Surely this isn't the first environmental hypocrite that you have run across. You don't have to go any further than the main man, Al Gore. He owns multiple, humongous homes that eat up electricity while preaching conservation to the masses. And, I know what you are going to say, “Al Gore pays carbon credits." Well sure he does, but to a company owned by him! Hypocrite
That company describes a lot more disruption than you imply.
Just another environmental hypocrit. He wants everyone else to pay for and abide by his "greenness," but doesn't want to actually have to do anything himself.
Sort of like all these loser "green" writers that live in places like NYC and LA and have footprints the size of a Sasquatch.
