Dec
Welsh Forests For Wind Turbines
British Prime Minister, Gordon ‘Clown’ is at the Copenhagen Summit feverishly slack jawing and glad-handing as many foreign delegates as he can to bust the NATO (No Action, Talk Only) deadlock that has frozen out a snow-covered Copenhagen Summit. “I want a legally-binding treaty within six months,” the clown says.
Mr. Brown wants to melt away those square brackets that have plagued draft agreements all week. But it appears that in the wake of the Climategate revelations, Santa Claus and climate clauses will just have to stay square-bracketed for now. The fly in the ointment being those valiant skeptics, such as Lord Monckton, who has been seen braving the chilled air to interview Greenpeace foot soldiers. His Youtube videos are now a gnawing testament to the woeful ignorance of the eco-activists. That whiff of conspiratorial deceit has now reached the noses of African delegates whose dithering is likely to scupper a swift and binding legal agreement on the ‘clowns’ path to a new world order of global government. For the one-eyed Scotsman its all looking as fanciful as a Hans Christian Anderson fairytale.
While a cadre of Soviet flag-waving communists and hand-wringing liberals shiver forlornly outside the Summit building back in Britain glum faces are also being worn on Nimby’s and concerned conservations. In the Welsh valleys they are still reeling at the prospect of the imminent destruction of thousands of forest trees to clear the decks for a new ‘green initiative’ subsidized by taxpayers. Apparently, a quarter of Wales’ largest woodland will soon be felled to make way for a wind farm with turbines standing almost as high as Blackpool Tower, it emerged last night. Conservationists are complaining that plans for Clocaenog Forest, in North East Wales, would see a vast swath of the woodland cleared to make way for up to 48 gigantic 145m or 475-ft-high turbines. RWE Npower Renewables, the company behind the 64 to 96megawatt (MW) scheme, admits the wind farm development area covers 1,463 hectares of the 5,000-hectare woodland – just under 30%.
Retired teacher and conservationist John Morgan, who is also a member of the conservation group the Hiraethog Alliance, fears the scheme is just the latest that will ultimately see Wales turned into one huge wind farm. John says there are also plans for wind farms at Melin-y-Wig and Gwyddelwern, in North East Wales. “These are big machines and it would destroy one of Wales’ most beautiful natural assets and have a cumulative effect when you consider the other wind turbine plans for this area.”
The forest is home to the largest population of red squirrels in Wales and as dedicated open access land is a favourite spot for ramblers. Red squirrels are fast becoming an endangered species as their habitats have more or less disappeared in southern Britain since being driven out by the more aggressive American grey squirrel. It’s political Darwinism at its most ugly and it seems that for mankind just as it is for nature, the bullyboys often hold sway. You couldn’t make this stuff up!
“The whole of Wales is going to become a wind farm,” John laments as the juggernaut of climate fascism revs up the bulldozers before relentlessly pushing on.
Carbon footprint of Copenhagen: 50,000 tonnes
Irony in this story: priceless
Acknowledgment: Wind-Watch.org | Discuss: here
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