Quote:The reality is that, as Britain flaunts its environmental credentials by speckling its coastlines and unspoiled moors and mountains with thousands of wind turbines, it is contributing to a vast man-made lake of poison in northern China. This is the deadly and sinister side of the massively profitable rare-earths industry that the ‘green’ companies profiting from the demand for wind turbines would prefer you knew nothing about.

(02-06-2011 11:48 AM)Richard111 Wrote:  This is seriously disturbing news. There is a lot to read but please look at it and let people know what is going on in the name of 'green' energy.
This article is from the Dailymail Online.

In China, the true cost of Britain's clean, green wind power experiment: Pollution on a disastrous scale

Quote:The reality is that, as Britain flaunts its environmental credentials by speckling its coastlines and unspoiled moors and mountains with thousands of wind turbines, it is contributing to a vast man-made lake of poison in northern China. This is the deadly and sinister side of the massively profitable rare-earths industry that the ‘green’ companies profiting from the demand for wind turbines would prefer you knew nothing about.

Between the rare earth metal processing pollution and the mercury from the "eco" light bulbs the "green" policies from the UK government /EU dictatorship look anything but!