'Wind Farms Cure Cancer, Save Kittens, Create World Peace' Says New Wind Industry Report
by JAMES DELINGPOLE September 8, 2012
Wind energy is great says a new report commissioned by the Labour think tank Institute For Public Policy Research.
Among the report's findings are that large scale industrial wind farms can:
- Boost GDP growth by up to 3,000 per cent
- Cure all known forms of cancer
- Rescue drowning kittens from sacks in canals and lead them to secure, happy homes where they are well cared for in handcrafted wicker baskets with lovely, snuggly faux-sheepskin blankets for them to purr on and little saucers of organic Jersey cream designed by Cath Kidston.
- Treble the beauty of the landscape.
- Engender social justice.
- Bring about lasting world peace.
- Mean that if you're an ordinary, struggling working class landowner like Earl Spencer, the Duke of Gloucester, Lord Gisborough, the Earl of Moray or the Duke of Roxburghe - not forgetting our old friend Sir Reginald Sheffield Bt - you won't after all be forced to sell your third-favourite Raphael cartoon in order to make ends meet, you just stick up a ruddy great wind farm instead and Bob's your uncle: problem solved!
But wait. Before we rush to beautify even more of our countryside with these miraculous, bat-chomping eco-crucifixes, perhaps we ought to have a quick glance at the bona fides of the people responsible for this report.
He notes that two out of the report's three authors are senior employees of a wind company called GL Garrad Hassan. (And the third is an environmental activist - or "green tech cheerleader" as he trendsomely bills himself on Twitter).
As Upton Sinclair once said: "It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his job depends on not understanding it."
James Delingpole is a British writer, journalist and broadcaster who is (he says) right about everything. He is the author of numerous fantastically entertaining books including Welcome to Obamaland: I've Seen Your Future and it Doesn't Work. His website is http://www.jamesdelingpole.com/ and he also has a blog at the Daily Telegraph.
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