Editors at Issues and Insights cite new evidence that people are consistently skeptical about renewable energy projects.
The net-zero zealots want to force a worldwide renewable energy transition. But they don’t always get their way. Their fanciful projects have been blocked more than 1,000 times globally. In a world seemingly gone mad, this is welcome news.
“The total number of alt-energy rejections or restrictions now exceeds 1,000 — it’s 1,011 ro be exact,” says energy author Robert Bryce, who operates a database that shows 814 U.S. rejections of solar, wind and battery projects. Add those to others across the world and the total exceeds a grand.
“The rejections keep coming,” says Bryce. “Since the beginning of May, a provincial government in Queensland has rejected an enormous wind project, a county board in Illinois spiked a solar project, and a district council in East Devon (England) vetoed a battery project.”
When officials asked residents for comments on the proposed $1 billion, 450-megawatt project wind project included battery storage in Queensland, Australia, 142 responded, reports Bryce, and 88% opposed it.
Local Illinois officials by a margin of more than 3-to-1 rejected plans for a solar project in the New Lenox Township about 40 miles southwest of Chicago, while the East Devon District Council said no to a lithium battery storage farm.
“These rejections don’t fit the narrative that’s relentlessly promoted by climate activists and their myriad allies in the legacy media about ‘green’ energy,” says Bryce. “But the numbers are real, the numbers are growing, and they provide irrefutable evidence that land-use conflicts are the binding constraint on the growth of alt-energy.”
Though it’s hyped as an eco-friendly alternative to fossil fuel and nuclear energy, renewable energy doesn’t have a harmonious relationship with nature. Wind and solar projects destroy animal habitats, require deforestation, and convert farms and pristine open fields into industrial zones.
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