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"On a winter night in early 2016, Jeremy Kitson gathered in his buddy's large
shed with some neighbors to plan their fight against a proposed wind farm in
rural Van Wert County, Ohio. The project would be about a mile from his home.
From the beginning, Kitson — who teaches physics and chemistry at the local
high school — knew he didn't want the turbines anywhere near him. He had heard
from folks who lived near another wind project about 10 miles away that the
turbines were noisy and that they couldn't sleep.
"There were so many people saying that it's horrible, you do not want to live
under these things,'" Kitson says.
He and his neighbors went on the offensive. "I was just like, there's got to be
a way to beat 'em," he says of the developer, Apex Clean Energy. "You got to
outsmart them. You got to figure out the science. You got to figure out the
economic arguments. You got to figure out what they're going to say and figure
out how to counter it."
At the shed, according to Kitson, they agreed that part of their outreach would
involve posting information on a Facebook community page called "Citizens for
Clear Skies," which ultimately grew to more than 770 followers.
In between posts selling anti-wind yard signs and posts about public meetings
opposing local wind projects, there were posts that spread false, misleading
and questionable information about wind energy. Links to stories about wind
turbine noise causing birth defects in Portuguese horses. Posts about the
health effects of low frequency infrasound, also called wind turbine syndrome.
Posts about wind energy not actually reducing carbon dioxide emissions. Photos
of wind turbines breaking, burning and falling — some in nearby counties and
states, but some in Germany and New Zealand. According to 2014 data from the
Department of Energy, the most recent available, out of the then-40,000
turbines in the U.S., there had been fewer than 40 incidents."
Via Susan ****
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
