Opponents of New Jersey wind farms say whale deaths should put project on pause for further studies

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9. The coal industry rejects these. The natural gas industry does not.

These things will only prolong our dependence on fossil fuels, especially natural gas.

In the long run they will do nothing to reduce the total amount of greenhouse gasses dumped into earth's atmosphere.

These wind turbines are not economically viable without natural gas "backup power." In actual practice gas becomes the primary power source.

"Better than coal" won't save the world. From my perspective as a radical environmentalist these wind farms installed on previously undeveloped lands or seascapes should be rejected out of hand as they are just another flavor of climate change denial. As usual our media presents these arguments from only two perspectives, both of them wrong.

France closed its last coal mines about twenty years ago and pensioned off the older coal miners. The U.S.A. might have done the same had we continued to build nuclear power plants. Instead we pursued a fantasy.