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Wind farms are a 'complete scam', claims the Environment Secretary who says plans for turbines are causing 'huge unhappiness' | Mail Online

Owen Paterson says communities will get new powers to block turbines which are 'regarded as a complete scam'
Warns of 'huge unhappiness' across the country caused by wind farms
People who live near developments to get 20% discount on energy bills

- Bishop Hill blog - Yeo tells Davey that DECC misled Parliament

Tim Yeo has finally written to Ed Davey about Lord Deben's conflicts of interest

Friday Funny – we live in interesting times | Watts Up With That?

While the cartoon is funny, the smoking portrayal does bother me a bit about this cartoon, because it is personal, and the artist of course is just another low information sap who works with popular memes. But, that smoking meme all part of the ongoing comparative smear to tobacco company tactics that Mann and Co. like to push, because after their own failure of the alarmist public relations strategy, all they have left now is denigration. Maybe they need to watch that “Mad Men” show for tips.

Oh, and for the record I’ve also never gotten any money from big oil, small, oil, Olive Oyl, Kochtopus, or the American Petroleum Institute, nor am I on the payroll (nor have I ever been) of any such organization.

Flashback: Al Gore Has Uncomfortable Past With The Tobacco Industry - Orlando Sentinel

He and his family made money by raising tobacco on their Tennessee farm for years - profiting from a product that killed lots of other people's sisters and husbands and parents and brothers and friends in a particularly vicious and cruel way.

They didn't stop when the surgeon general issued his sharp warning linking tobacco with illness and death in 1964, not until Nancy's tragic battle with lung cancer.

As late as 1988, Al Gore was bragging in a speech to tobacco farmers in North Carolina, ''Throughout most of my life, I raised tobacco. I want you to know that with my own hands, all of my life, I put it in the plant beds and transferred it. I've hoed it. I've dug in it. I've sprayed it, I've chopped it, I've shredded it, spiked it, put it in the barn and stripped it and sold it.'' And made money growing a carcinogen that killed other people's loved ones. Gore made this speech, remember, four years after his sister's death. And 24 years after the surgeon general's report.