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Industrial wind Turbines are not environmentally friendly (“green”) nor do they necessarily help to reverse global warming.
For many of the same reasons industrial wind turbines cause human health to deteriorate, they devastate animals and ecosystems. The high levels of audible noise produced by turbines can interfere with bird calls and vital communication between animals, while infrasound and vibration exposure can produce the familiar plethora of horrific symptoms (vibroacoustic disease) in wildlife. Stray voltage or “dirty energy” released into the ground by industrial wind turbines discourages beneficial life in the earth around them, contributing to the development of barren and compacted soil. Terrestrial animals also flee this harmful and potentially deadly free voltage, while ecologically important flying mammals and many species of birds, including endangered ones, similarly leave the skies or meet with a high chance of violent death at the gargantuan spinning blades of the turbines.
Each wind turbine is constructed of tons of “rare earth” metals, which must be mined at the cost of communities’ health and environmental devastation in China. The massive concrete base of each industrial wind turbine may extend approximately fifty feet into the ground. Concrete manufacture releases vast amounts of polluting mercury into the environment, and the toxic components of concrete set into the earth can contaminate aquifers. Leaked and spilled oil and industrial fluid and toxic byproducts of construction and industrial development can also leach into water supplies and sicken all forms of life. Altered water movement resulting from the geologic changes imposed by turbine development can disrupt and mar natural environments and synergistically with the other biocidal effects of industrial wind turbines lead to ecosystem loss.
The local environmental destruction imposed by industrial wind turbines is not even partially balanced by prevention of further global warming or lowered electricity bills. Wind power must be propped up by vast corporate welfare, and its intermittent output to the grid evened out by steady gas power backup. Wind power development is often positively correlated with increased rather than decreased CO2 emissions, and with substantially rising local electric bills. The corporate interests behind wind power development are, despite heavy marketing of industrial wind turbines as “green,” covertly joined at the hip with the fossil fuel industry. In other words, large corporations based elsewhere are exploiting and destroying rural ecosystems, environments, and communities in order to tap into government subsidies and expand operations under the auspices of falsified “green technology,” without concern or accountability for the trail of suffering and even death they leave in their path.
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