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New documentary illustrates global backlash against big wind
A new and thoughtful look at the fight against Big Wind is Laura Israel's new film, Windfall, a documentary that focuses on the fight over the siting of wind turbines in the small town of Meredith, New York. Indeed, Israel's film underscores an essential question: what, exactly, qualifies an energy source as "green" or "clean"?
February 13, 2012
by Robert Bryce
in Energy Tribune
After years of successful marketing and lavish subsidies from taxpayers, the global wind industry now finds itself facing an unprecedented backlash. And that backlash - largely coming from rural landowners - combined with low natural gas prices, and a Congress unwilling to extend more subsidies, has left the American and Canadian wind sectors gasping for breath.
A new and thoughtful look at the fight against Big Wind is Laura Israel's new film, Windfall, a documentary that focuses on the fight over the siting of wind turbines in the small town of Meredith, New York. Indeed, Israel's film underscores an essential question:... [continue via Web link]
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