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Where do those who oppose these projects prefer to get the power they need to run their lives? Off-shore oil? Certainly, it must be obvious in the face of the BP Oil Disaster that our oil addition is jeopardizing our way of life, our environment, and is far more capable of trashing our waters than wind turbines.
The subsidies, via tax breaks in the millions, for the oil industry make any financial nod we give to renewable energy look paltry indeed. Should we get that power we need from the gas shales in our area (recently the Utica gas shale has been added to the Marcellus gas shale as candidates for local gas drilling)? Drilling for natural gas by hydrofracking has the potential to seriously disrupt our groundwater supplies.
I could understand wind power opponent’s anger and contempt of wind power in our area if they suggested a reasonable alternative to our energy needs—even if they suggested conservation so they don’t use the power that comes from oil, which is polluting and warming our planet, and nuclear, which is still dangerous and so complicated that there is no room for error.