| Not at all nimbyish
Eaglesham residents united this week against a proposal to site Scotland's first large
scale wind farm on hilly moorland bordering the quiet North Ayrshire hamlet.
"It’s a disgrace", a local resident told the JT. "These wind turbines would have a detrimental effect
on the landscape and cause terrible enviromental damage. Just as soon as everyone gets
back tonight from working in well-paid jobs in Glasgow we'll be having a meeting."
Among the opponents arguments against the
development is the claim that the giant turbines might attract lightning strikes. "We
don't have any large metal objects sticking up out of the ground at the moment, like
electricity pylons for example. All electricity to the village is delivered by the postie
every Tuesday in attractively tied parcels of brown paper."
Perhaps crucially for the protestors position,
they argue that wind farms do not in fact contribute to renewable energy reserves.
"They'd just use all the wind up," one spokesmaddie insisted persuasively,
"Eventually the direction of |
the turbine blades would
have to be reversed using stored electricity to put wind back into the Earth's atmosphere.
The whole proposal is mad." Painting a
picture of rural bliss, a tearful local worried that such a development would tear the
local community apart, "Some families here can trace their roots all the way back to
the1980s when they made a killing on the stock exchange and moved to the village to escape
the communistic property taxes imposed by the trotskyists in control of Glasgow City
Council. We're talking a way of life going back literally tens of years."
With that, the blubbing halfwit gunned up her
Toyota Terminator Class 4x4 and blasted off down a country road belching diesel smoke into
the air, on her way to the the Sainsburys in Newton Mearns to stock up on sherry.
The village attitude towards global warming is
summed up by Ye Olde Corporate Chartered Accountant: "Who cares about global warming?
What have future generations yet unborn ever done for me?." * |
