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tahir
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 Posted: Wed Feb 09, 05 6:48 pm Post subject: A bad case of too much wind |
 
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'The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.' - Elizabeth Cady Stanton.
Too much wind in public places can be a bad thing. So when the Friends of the Forest saw that their legally elected representatives on the County Council were giving the thumbs up to the development of large Wind Farms across the county, they decided to take the matter into their own hands.
They felt, you see, that all of these new fangled turbines would not only destroy the look and feel of their green and pleasant neck of the woods, but make life miserable for the wildlife population into the bargain. And, seemingly oblivious to the importance of global warming, they weren't about to just sit around and let these enormous erections happen in their back yard without putting up a fight.
So one night, in the local pub as I recall, they conjured up a rather ingenious plan to make the Elders of the Council sit up and take note of their objections once and for all. And to put a stop to the proliferation of the wind machines for good.
It was such a simple idea that they surprised themselves that they hadn't thought of it earlier. First off, they formed a limited company whose goals were to develop and manage an extraordinary number of wind farms. Then, masquerading as wind developers, they applied to the Council to develop a 5000MW wind farm on the county's most beautiful Site of Specific Scientific Interest, which just happened to be on land owned by a high ranking Member of the Royal Family.
As the application popped through the mailbox of the folks at County Hall, so too did copies of it - this time addressed to members of the local and national news media. And, when the editors got the Spoof proposal, they fell for it. Story after story followed about the potential desecration of the land and the environment. Despite the fact that this particularly impious application would never have succeeded anyway due to the planning constraints that the Council had put in place.
But people have no time to analyse the facts. There's barely enough time to grab a quick soundbite and munch on it quickly anymore. And so it was that the population at large started to believe in the environmental evil that the wind farms would bring to their beautiful hilly hills, craggy crags and pretty peaks. And at every instance, when a proposal for a new wind farm is now made, the members of the Council are inundated with letters of protest.
But I've heard that the Wind Farm developers are planning to get their own back. And their plan is meaner, crueller and more devious than the simplistic scheme dreamt up by the Friends of the Forest.
Their plan is simple too, but it will be effective. They plan to do nothing at all. They will abandon any new schemes to construct Wind Power systems in the area. They will simply let nature take its course. And let global warming, and the floodwaters that inevitably follow, drown out the voices of those who objected to their plans.
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