I first saw a wind turbine in 1996 on Prince Edward Island in Canada. Tourists visiting the island are encouraged to tour the entire coast. At the end of the route, next to the lighthouse, there was a strange windmill. Everyone observed it as an innocent curiosity and probably no one expected that we were witnessing the beginnings of the expansion of one of the greatest frauds and crimes against civilisation.
Nearly thirty years later, it is rare to notice a lone wind turbine. Today, they are sprouting up like mushrooms against the background of the most beautiful landscapes, grouped into wind farms, intended – as ever present propaganda says – to provide “clean and healthy energy” in a world doomed to ecological catastrophe, as the confused and uninformed inhabitants of the Earth are persistently told.
Few people realize that enthusiastic advertising spots in which mothers raise small, laughing children against the background of wind farms to convince them that this form of obtaining electricity guarantees a safe future, providing future generations with a healthy and friendly environment.
This deceitful, brazen propaganda is based on a cynical lie that hides facts at all costs just to further push for the expansion of wind farms.
Windmills, installed in huge, visible groups, are everywhere: near highways in California, Colorado and Nebraska; on the shores of the great lakes of Ontario, among the historic structure of France, the cradle of Western civilisation; and also on the Baltic coast – scattered chaotically for now, but with devastating consequences.
Interference with nature and landscape seems to be the most obvious issue, although aesthetic impressions are only a top of the iceberg of the complex, terrifying side effects of the concept of obtaining so-called “clean energy”.
The powerful lobby of windmill producers is behind this practice, which is intrusively promoted by governments, media and institutions. In France, over a hundred owners of large private fortunes have invested in the wind industry. Landowners and farmers are helpless against them. The budget of some of the investors exceeds the financial resources of the French department of culture, which theoretically should defend the appearance of France’s historic structure.
The hysteria of “climate change” and the need to save “Mother Earth”, apart from corruption, is the main reason for the approval of wind energy development plans by governments, represented by officials who succumb to pressure and convincing “reasonings”. The owners of houses and farms where the turbines are built are cornered. They are lured with financial compensation, and when this does not work, they are condemned to an unequal fight with legal corporations that usually win the legal battles. Ordinary citizens are equally helpless and traveling past wind farms, don’t have the appropriate knowledge, and indifferently look at the gloomy view that disfigures the landscape. The media are not honest, at the service of the climate and wind lobby, with dozens of loyal journalists at their service, eagerly following all instructions and writing propaganda laurels for an industry whose harmful effects cannot be overestimated. The entire process of developing wind farms lacks transparency, societies are faced with a fait accompli and the results of consultations are usually predetermined.
There are about 5,000 windmills in operation in France, but green energy enthusiasts supported by globalist President Macron want to install 25,000 of them in total. France, like other countries, is being destroyed in the majesty of the law. Few people know what wind turbines really are and how much they cost, because those who pull the strings: investors, politicians, businessmen manipulate public opinion in their private interests. Facts are hidden behind slogans such as: “wind is free”, “wind does not pollute”, “wind creates new jobs”. These infantile arguments are intended to obscure reality. And what is she like? Wind machines produce electricity, but they produce little of it, and only when the wind is blowing. To ensure a constant supply of electricity, gas or coal-fired power plants must operate in parallel with wind farms. In Germany, the development of wind energy forced the government to produce coal and gas to compensate for the deficit of electricity from wind turbines. As a result, this led to an increase in CO2 emissions!
The sounds of operating turbines are not only harmful to health and well-being. We know that rotating windmill blades cause infrasound, i.e. low-frequency sounds and a magnetic field. French television carried a report in which a farmer talks about the nightmare experienced by his family and the animals raised on the farm:
“The turbines were installed in 2013. Since then, we have seen major problems in animals and humans. This applies to entire families, children and adults. We have sleep problems, muscle inflammation, joint pain, mouth ulcers, digestive problems, headaches. It also has a disastrous effect on animals. We have lost 300 cows and calves in the last six years.”
In this drastic case, the harmful effects of the turbines overlapped with the influence of underground rivers flowing under the farms. Geobiologists have discovered several underground caves and underground water streams 5-7 meters wide that flow under buildings and apartments. The electricity produced by windmills affects water because the 20,000-volt cables from the turbines are located underground. This means that the water is charged with electricity and this has a great effect on living creatures.
France does not need wind farms because nuclear power plants produce excess electricity and 15% of the production is exported. Despite this, the French are told that windmills will allow them to close nuclear power plants, even though not a single one has been closed for 10 years. Another lie concerns the cost of wind energy. It is claimed that it is “free”, which is false nonsense. Distributors of this energy pay twice as much as the market price, and French taxpayers make up for the difference by paying a special tax.
The operation of the turbines is planned for 15 years, then the turbines are dismantled, which costs from 200,000 to 900,000 euros, and the windmill wings are made of fiberglass, which never decomposes and will create powerful, non-recyclable waste in the future. 40 tons of iron and 800 to 1,500 tons of cement are used to build one turbine, which does not sound “ecological” at all.
Windmills destroy the landscape uncontrollably. Powerful windmills are visible next to the towers of historic cathedrals, they destroy the beauty of the landscape of medieval towns and interfere with nature and landscape.
In order to install “ecological” wind farms, huge tracts of forests are cut down, completely ignoring the basic principles of environmental protection. Particularly scandalous are the facts revealed in Scotland, where almost 16 million trees were cut down on public land to make way for wind farms, the construction of which has become a government priority. Mairi Gougeon, the Rural Secretary, estimated that 15.7 million trees had been cut down since 2000 on land currently managed by Forestry and Land Scotland (FLS), which is the equivalent of over 1,700 trees a day!
Wind farms are not only built on land, they are also installed on the seabed: a similar investment is being carried out in Poland near Łeba. No one questions what effect this experimental investment will have on the Polish coast and people. The latest trend are water turbines, installed on the seabed and powered by water currents.
Little is said about the greatest threat posed by windmills, despite it is impossible to ignore the catastrophic impact of windmill operation on the health and life of people and animals. There are hundreds of scientific publications on this subject, but these materials have been removed from the Internet for a long time, and search engines only provide texts denying these terrifying studies. Some articles are difficult to access or require payment.
However, you can get a lot of information, such as from the article summary, which is available in the paid version:
“People who live near wind turbines complain of symptoms that include some combination of the following: difficulty sleeping, fatigue, depression, irritability, aggressiveness, cognitive dysfunction, chest pain/pressure, headaches, joint pain, skin irritations, nausea, dizziness, tinnitus, and stress. These symptoms have been attributed to the pressure (sound) waves that wind turbines generate in the form of noise and infrasound. However, wind turbines also generate electromagnetic waves in the form of poor power quality (dirty electricity) and ground current, and these can adversely affect those who are electrically hypersensitive. Indeed, the symptoms mentioned above are consistent with electrohypersensitivity. Sensitivity to both sound and electromagnetic waves differs among individuals and may explain why not everyone in the same home experiences similar effects. Ways to mitigate the adverse health effects of wind turbines are presented.”
Another drastic example of the destructive effects of turbines are the deaths of birds. They die not only as a result of collisions with windmill blades, but also due to the negative pressure created by the spinning propellers and bursting the lungs of birds and bats. Most data on bird deaths as a result of collisions with wind farms come from studies published in 2013 and 2014. These studies showed that between 140,000 and 679,000 birds die because of this. These numbers must be higher these days (why isn’t up-to-date research being done?!) because so many more wind farms have been built over the last decade. Proponents of wind energy claim that the same number of birds are killed by cats, which is a grotesque argument that does not justify anything and is intended to ridicule the critics who are sounding the alarm.
Tourists visiting the Baltic coast, driving along the coastal roads, pass groups of wind farms, which consistently blend into the landscape with their monotonous ugliness. They can be seen everywhere, for now they are far from the most famous resorts, but from the beach in Gąski you can see in the distance a line of windmills by the sea, disfiguring the landscape. The Polish Baltic Sea is slowly closing in on pseudo-ecological technology, which is neither clean, healthy nor safe. The few who try to publicize the issue and prevent harmful expansion are effectively deprived of their voice and the ability to raise awareness of the people, who, convinced that the problem does not concern them, are not interested in learning the facts and are content with distracting lies. Poles are deceived by disinformative messages intended to convince us of the beneficial effects of industry, which in fact does not care about the planet or the climate, and even less does not care about people.
Aleksander Rybczyński
Aleksander R
ybczyński, poet, writer, art critic, editor, photographer, reporter, and journalist; graduate of the Jagiellonian University (art history); since 1991 lives in Toronto, Ontario.
Author of several poetry collections, recipient of the Kazimiera Iłłakowiczówna Award (for the best poetical debut) and the Turzański Foundation Award (2000).
Since 1991, has made numerous contributions to the Polish-Canadian periodicals and TV programs. Between 1993 and 2003, editor of the cultural monthly “List oceaniczny” (Oceanic Letter). From 2015 on, editor-in-chief of the online magazine “Polska Canada” (bilingual), devoted to literature, art, socio-political commentary and history, as well as to the preservation of Western cultural values, and to the human, national, and animal rights.
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