Environmental Capital - WSJ.com : Tar Sands: Now Even the Church is Opposed

Still, Bishop Bouchard better keep an eye on the moral high ground as he rails about oil-sands development. In May, he will lead parishoners on a luxury, two-week pilgrimmage around Greece and Italy, including round-trip flights from Edmonton. St. Paul’s Diocese doesn’t say whether the environmental impact of that trip will be minimized with carbon offsets.

Colorado: "first strong winds" since inauguration damages expensive allegedly Co2-fighting wind turbine

NEDERLAND — U.S. Forest Service officials had a tour scheduled Wednesday afternoon to show off to journalists a pair of recently installed wind turbines.

But they had to cancel the tour when 100 mph winds damaged one of the turbines Tuesday night.

“We were kind of tickled” by the irony, acknowledged Maribeth Pecotte, a spokeswoman in the Forest Service’s Boulder Ranger District office.
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Pecotte said the Tuesday night gusts — reportedly gauged at up to 101 mph at the nearby Eldora Ski Area — were the first strong winds since the turbines were installed Jan. 20.

The winds appeared to have sheared off one turbine’s fiberglass “sail,” Pecotte said, and the pole holding up the turbine had been wobbling before that.
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The turbine project is costing the Forest Service $171,568 over a 15-year financing contract, Pecotte said. Once they’re both back in operation, the two turbines are expected to be able to generate as much electricity as it would take to power 12 average homes, she said.
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Forest Service officials said the Nederland Work Center wind-power project helps implement the agency’s “Strategic Framework for Responding to Climate Change,” including a goal to “reduce the environmental footprint of Forest Service operations and be a leading example of a green organization.”

Politician's logic

Sounds like politician's logic to me (taken from the British comedy series Yes Prime Minister): we have to do something, this is something, therefore we have to do it.