Green Madness: The Waste and Destruction Caused by One Industrial Wind Project
(Chautauqua, New York)
Cassadaga Wind, Chautauqua County, New York
This video by Chautauqua Updates is the documentation of two years of construction of one industrial wind project in western New York.
“Wind and solar affects everyone and puts the quality of life in upstate New York at risk. If the governor succeeds, upstate New York will become an industrial wasteland -not just because of wind and solar but because of what will occur after. When Wall Street speculators and foreign entities make all their money, they are going to sell these contracts and we will be inundated with gravel pits and gas wells and anything else that can be harvested from our land as a result of these mineral rights being given away.
“Wind and solar are not built without perpetual government subsidies. They can’t compete on the open market. The only people who benefit are these LLCs and Wall Street Conglomerates that are created for the sole purpose of profiting off the taxpayers.”
—N.Y. State Senator George Borrello (57th District)
“The impact on the community goes beyond the noise and habitat destruction and killing of bats and birds, it destroys the sense of community when one neighbor is causing a loss of the quality of life of another neighbor.” —Dr. Mark Twichell (expert on infrasound health impacts)
Each industrial wind turbine is made of 900 tons of steel. Steel is made of iron, coal and alloys all mined using huge steel equipment. Mining equipment is made of steel which is made of iron and alloys. Iron and alloys are forged at high temperatures using immense amounts of energy to create steel. Bulldozers, excavators and dump trucks are made of steel. Each turbine uses 2500 tons of cement and 45 tons of plastic.
The International Energy Agencyis the source of energy information for world governments. The IEA’s recent report states that wind and solar materials require mining industries and infrastructure that don’t exist. Wind, solar and battery technologies contain key minerals such as lithium, graphite, nickel and rare-earth metals – the demand for which is increasing: rising by 4200%, 2500%, 1900% and 700%, respectively, by 2040. The world doesn’t have the capacity to meet such demand.
If mining were pursued for the quantities necessary, the world would face severe environmental, economic and social challenges, along with geopolitical risks.
The IEA stipulates that green-energy machines use far more critical minerals than conventional-energy machines do. “A typical electric car requires six times the mineral inputs of a conventional car, and an onshore wind plant requires nine times more mineral resources than a gas-fired power plant,”
The IEA notes that this is a “shift from a fuel-intensive to a material-intensive energy system.” That means a shift away from liquids and gases whose extraction and transport leave a very light footprint on the land and are transported easily, cheaply and efficiently. Renewables” move toward big-footprint mines, the energy-intensive transport of massive amounts of rock and other solid materials, and subsequent chemical processing and refining using fossil fuels to do so.
“Mining and mineral processing require large volumes of water” – a serious issue when around half of global lithium and copper production takes place in areas of high water stress – and “pose contamination risks through acid mine drainage, wastewater discharge and the disposal of tailings.”
IEA data show that expanded mining will occur mainly in countries with “low governance scores” where “corruption and bribery pose major liability risks.”
Eighty percent of the global mineral supply comes from China.
The IEA warns of the “high emissions intensities” required. The IEA data show that, depending on the location and nature of future mines, the emissions could wipe out much or most of the emissions saved (Wall Street Journal).
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