Greenpeace stunt backfires. We mustn’t laugh

(Before It's News)

[h/t to Anne] Poor Greenpeace. I owe them a huge debt of gratitude for having got me on the front page of the paper edition of the Guardian (and how many more of those will there be???), for having boosted sales of my splendid book Watermelons: How Environmentalists Are Killing The Planet, Destroying The Economy And Stealing Your Children’s Future, and for having given me an excuse to get yet another article on the evils of wind farms in the print issue of the Telegraph.

My favourite bit was this one, where I revealed the astonishing level of subsidies made available to greedy landowners and rapacious wind farm developers.

Here, roughly, is how the spoils will be divided among the troughers at Ovenden Moor. The landowner will be paid £401,000 pa, index-linked, for the next 25 years. The developer will get an income of around £2,679,300 pa, index-linked, over the same period. The vast bulk of this will come straight from the taxpayer in the form of compulsory subsidies, payable even if the turbines produce no power.

No way would that damning paragraph have been published in the paper had it not been for Greenpeace’s sterling efforts. So, thanks for that guys!

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