 The Telegraph Before I got sidetracked this morning by my sublime irritation at the Coalition's latest ludicrous foray into Nanny Statism, what I'd meant to blog about was this. Some of you will have seen it already. It's by the great Kevin Myers, it ran in yesterday's Irish Independent (not the English one, for reasons which are bleeding obvious) and it's the best piece anyone has written, EVER, about wind farms. TAGGED: bats, Gazprom, Russia, United Kingdom, wind farmsRECOMMENDED ARTICLES| Such is the viral nature of information flow on the internet, we can sometimes see myths and memes developing before our very eyes. Just such an example has occurred over recent days with the rather irresistible news that wind... more ›› |
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