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, stood a strange windmill. Everyone viewed it as an innocent curiosity; none of us expected we were witnessing the beginning of what would become one of the greatest frauds and crimes against civilization.
Nearly thirty years later, lone wind turbines are a rare sight. Today, they are sprouting up like mushrooms across the most beautiful landscapes, grouped into wind farms. These are intended – according to the ever-present propaganda – to provide ‘clean and healthy energy’ in a world supposedly doomed to ecological catastrophe, as the confused and uninformed inhabitants of Earth are repeatedly told.
Few people realize that these enthusiastic advertisements, showing mothers with smiling children against a backdrop of wind farms, are designed to convince viewers that this form of electricity guarantees a safe future and provides future generations with a healthy 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. Some investors’ budgets exceed the financial resources of France’s Ministry of Culture, which should be protecting the country’s historical heritage.
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”. Property owners where turbines are to be built find themselves cornered. They are first enticed with financial compensation, and when that fails, they face an uphill legal battle against powerful corporations that typically prevail. Ordinary citizens are equally helpless. As they travel past wind farms, lacking proper information about their impact, they merely glance indifferently at the gloomy structures that mar the landscape. The media lacks honesty, serving instead the climate and wind energy lobby. Dozens of loyal journalists readily follow instructions, writing propaganda pieces that praise an industry whose harmful effects are severely underreported. 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 obscured behind simplistic slogans like ‘wind is free,’ ‘wind does not pollute,’ and ‘wind creates new jobs.’ These naive arguments are designed to hide the reality. So what is the true situation? While wind turbines do produce electricity, their output is low and intermittent, dependent entirely on wind conditions. To maintain a consistent power supply, gas or coal-fired power plants must run continuously alongside 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 actually led to an increase in CO2 emissions.
The sounds from operating turbines harm both health and well-being. The rotating blades generate both infrasound (low-frequency sounds) and magnetic fields, creating multiple hazards. 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 electrical charging of the water has severe impacts on living organisms.
France has no real need for wind farms, as its nuclear power plants already produce surplus electricity, with 15% being exported. Yet the French public is told that wind turbines will enable the closure of nuclear plants, despite not a single nuclear facility being decommissioned in the past decade. Another deception concerns wind energy costs. While claimed to be ‘free,’ this is demonstrably false. Energy distributors pay double the market price, with French taxpayers covering the difference through a special tax.
The turbines are designed to operate for 15 years before requiring dismantling – a process costing between 200,000 and 900,000 euros. The turbine blades, made of fiberglass, are non-biodegradable and will create substantial non-recyclable waste in the future. Each turbine requires 40 tons of iron and 800 to 1,500 tons of cement for construction – hardly an ‘ecological’ footprint.
Wind turbines are causing widespread destruction of landscapes. These massive structures now stand beside historic cathedral towers, destroying the aesthetic beauty of medieval towns and disrupting natural vistas.
To install these supposedly ‘ecological’ wind farms, vast areas of forest are being cleared, in direct contradiction of basic environmental principles. The situation in Scotland is particularly shocking, where nearly 16 million trees on public land have been felled to make way for wind farms – a government priority project. 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 expanding beyond land to the seabed, with such installations being developed near Łeba, Poland. Yet no one is questioning the potential impacts of this experimental technology on the Polish coastline and its inhabitants. The newest development includes water turbines, installed on the seabed and powered by ocean currents.
The greatest threat posed by wind turbines – their catastrophic impact on human and animal health – receives little attention, despite being impossible to ignore. While hundreds of scientific publications document these effects, many such materials have disappeared from the Internet, with search engines predominantly showing content that denies these concerning studies. Many remaining articles are either difficult to access or behind paywalls.
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.” The symptoms described are consistent with electrohypersensitivity. Individual sensitivity to both sound and electromagnetic waves varies, which may explain why household members experience different effects. Research suggests various ways to mitigate these adverse health impacts.
Bird mortality represents another severe consequence of wind turbines. Birds perish not only from direct collisions with turbine blades but also from the negative pressure created by spinning rotors, which can cause fatal damage to the lungs of both birds and bats. The most recent comprehensive studies on bird fatalities from wind farm collisions, published in 2013 and 2014, documented between 140,000 and 679,000 deaths annually. Given the significant expansion of wind farms over the past decade, current numbers are likely much higher – though notably, no recent comprehensive studies have been conducted. 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 driving along the Baltic coastal roads encounter numerous wind farms, their monotonous structures imposing themselves on the landscape. While currently situated away from major tourist resorts, their presence is increasingly visible – from the beach in Gąski, one can already see a line of turbines on the horizon, marring the natural seascape. The Polish Baltic coast is gradually succumbing to this pseudo-ecological technology, which proves neither clean, healthy, nor safe. Those few who attempt to raise awareness and prevent further harmful expansion find themselves silenced. Meanwhile, the public, believing themselves unaffected by these issues, remains disinterested in learning the facts, instead accepting convenient disinformation. The Polish public is being misled by disinformation campaigns promoting the supposed benefits of an industry that, in reality, shows little concern for either the planet’s climate or human welfare.
Aleksander Rybczyński
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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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