I live in Canary Islands (Spain) where (land) wind turbines are rejected by the local community on the basis of being ‘unsightly’. Now aside from the fact that this island is already unsightly with its countless hotels and villages that pollute the landscape to the worst imaginable extent, the local community rejects, just as strongly, any plans to build a nuclear power plant for the archipelago.

I am a 100% green and pro-nature guy (in my mind) and I try to live a relatively green life with a very marginal eco-footprint (no car, no fridge, no house, no air-con, no heating and so on. But I am asking myself (and others) – how can any community that uses that vast amounts of energy block windmill plants or nuclear plants? For as I look around, nobody here saves energy or tries to live a life that would put less stress on the environment.

A place is a burial ground? So what? Are the dead more important than the living ones? Unsightly? The beauty is in the viewer´s eye.

Humbag.

Local communities DO NOT SEE the need to reduce their impact, use less energy, and yet at the same time will block any attempts of trying to make greener energy. There is always an argument against, but never any will to stop using more than the environment can sustainably provide.

A hopeless case, I think, and making local communities more educated about the energy consumption and production would seem the only way from the dead end we are in now. The problem is people do not want to learn, they want to CONSUME.

Bad news.
nick