Sunday, October 15, 2006

[destruction] now it's a wind farm

Always destruction. Why must they do this? But I get ahead of myself. Daily Propaganda has this shocker today: Plans are afoot to build the world's largest wind farm in the Outer Hebrides. 'Great!' some people would claim - the Outer Hebrides are the windiest place in the UK and hardly anyone lives there - making them one of the more attractive places to put a wind farm. They plan on spending £300 million on an under-sea cable, and another £500m on the farm itself. But unfortunately, the site chosen for the construction is Blanket Bog - a type of rich peat land, which absorbs up to 81 grams of carbon every year per square metre. Read more here.

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