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What a travesty for Scotland. It was one of most beautiful countries on the map. It was untamed and hills of Heather were breath taking. In the forests you could hear the bagpipes of the ancestors.

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Like so much of everything else witnessed today, INSANITY!

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What a joke! Trees are carbon sinks.

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How stupid can you get! China just pulled out of the Paris, climate agreement, and all the efforts of the west were just create, tremendous pain for the citizens of the west and no gain !

To destroy 16 million trees that are needed is absolutely stupid.

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Eugypius writes in his substack about Germany and he and some other investigative reporters have found that a large number of "green" technology companies are actually owned by the very government bureaucrats and elected officials, or their families, who are pushing these businesses. This is seen all over the world, too, where all the billions of dollars in subsidies from governments for these projects are cycled back to government officials, who then push for more destruction of the environment with turbines and panels, neither of which provide much energy. Dave Walsh, who builds power plants for a living, using government data, shows that they only operate about 22% of the time: in northern Europe, even less. So, it's a combination of graft and stupidity. Meanwhile, the destruction of forests and bogs, as well as strip mining by the Chinese to get to the rare earth minerals to build these "green" products, is ever increasing.

Danny Huckabee

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Certainly makes it seem that this is about profits rather than environmental concerns.

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Two things in nature in which I passionately revel: TREES AND BIRDS.

My soul aches, my heart breaks for these glorious gifts from our creator which have been sacrificed -- by desperately wicked men -- on the altar of greed and hatred of God and His creative design.

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smart move - NOT!

Destroying the cure for CO2 & installing non-recyclable monstrosities that can't provide a dependable energy stream for more than a few homes.

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In addition to the environmental disasters, the wind turbines simply create waste.

I am a mechanical engineer, and I can assure you that the wind turbines are a huge scam.

The MECHANICAL DESIGN of large wind turbines is terribly inadequate for reliable services over the long term, especially the gear box and the bearings. So the new turbines look great, but wait for a couple of years, the turbine’s bearings are worn out, the lubricant is leaking, or other mechanical system issues will force the turbines to be shut down. Consequently, we constantly see idle wind turbines while winds are blowing strong. We don’t have to be a rocket scientist to know something must be wrong, seriously wrong. For instance, idling a 3 MW peak power turbine is to squander tens of thousands of dollars per hour, let alone over the whole day. The reason can only be some serious issues.

Repairs of the turbines is a gigantic engineering and logistic maneuver. Yes, they can be repaired, but what’s the point if we know it will break down again in 6-12 months? The repair is so expensive that it has become more economical for the owner to keep them idle. Until another newer government rescue packages that can cover up the scandals and failure.

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How very sad. Magnificent trees trees being removed in too many olaces.

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Thank the Heavens for government, otherwise we all might live freer, saner and happier.

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Create energy scarcity when actually none exists. It's a tax on the people and even the oil and gas company execs love the higher prices. Wind isn't a competitor to them at all. It's a virtue signal. Everyone in government approving these needs to be culled. Get to it.

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This is a smoking gun if you ask me. It proves that the entire climate change industry is only interested in one thing. Lining the pockets of oligarchs.

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Total insanity!

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Aug 7, 2023·edited Aug 7, 2023

A new definition of inefficiency, of waste. Of stupidity.

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Wow! This is crazy. In addition to cutting down trees in the name of climate change, the US goverment is funding research into Solar Radiation Management aka spraying chemicals and particulates into the sky in order to block sunlight. Check out this recent ScientificAmerican article about. Please note the image that they use. Look familiar? https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/solar-geoengineering-should-be-regulated-u-n-report-says/

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