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It's a daylight butchering of Mother Earth in Attappadi. Heads of towering hills are being chopped to install windmills in this ecological hotspot and the largest tribal habitat in the state. Over 20-metre wide roads, posing threat to remaining trees in the area, are being constructed from the foothills to their top to transport windmill units weighing 80-100 tonnes each by giant Volvo trucks.
The green tag attached to windmills exempt them from environmental clearance which leads to mindless destruction of nature with impunity.
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Some Chinese "clean energy" companies produce a toxic hazard
March 14, 2008 by Ariana Eunjung Cha in Washington Post
March 14, 2008 by Ariana Eunjung Cha in Washington Post
Stopping between the cornfields and the primary-school playground, the workers dumped buckets of bubbling white liquid onto the ground. Then they drove right back through the gates of their compound without a word. ...here in the central plains of Henan Province near the Yellow River, stands out for one reason: It's a green-energy company, producing polysilicon destined for solar-energy panels sold around the world. But the byproduct of polysilicon production - silicon tetrachloride - is a highly toxic substance that poses environmental hazards.
"The land where you dump or bury it will be infertile. No grass or
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An unfavorable wind is starting to blow against wind power generation in Japan.
Wind power is often referred to as an environment-friendly energy source that emits no carbon dioxide. Consequently generators are being built in many parts of Japan.
However, a small but growing number of people, especially intellectuals, are voicing opposition to the construction of wind turbines.................