{"id":3381,"date":"2007-11-17T11:41:06","date_gmt":"2007-11-17T16:41:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/17\/something-other-than-wind-blows-here\/"},"modified":"2007-11-17T11:41:06","modified_gmt":"2007-11-17T16:41:06","slug":"something-other-than-wind-blows-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/17\/something-other-than-wind-blows-here\/","title":{"rendered":"something other than wind blows here"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.davebidini.ca\/\">Dave Bidini<\/a>&#8216;s article in today&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/\">Globe &amp; Mail<\/a>, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/servlet\/story\/LAC.20071117.CENTRE17\/TPStory\/Focus\/Ontario\/?pageRequested=all\">An ill wind blows<\/a><\/em> (now irritatingly hidden behind a paywall, but helpfully cached <a href=\"http:\/\/www.windaction.org\/news\/12719\">here<\/a>) troubles me about what got through basic fact-checking:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;<em>The turbines expected on the island are open-bladed, a style being replaced in Europe by closed-blade turbines, which do less damage to wildlife.<\/em>&#8221; What are closed-blade turbines? I&#8217;m in weekly contact with colleagues in the European wind energy industry. If people were installing a radically different type of machine, I&#8217;d know about it.<\/li>\n<li>The article cites the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncpa.org\/\">National Center for Policy Analysis<\/a> as a source. Quoting the NCPA on wind energy and the environment is a little like quoting the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nra.org\/\">NRA<\/a> on gun control. Check out the NCPA&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/eteam.ncpa.org\/\">E-Team: Providing Accurate Information on Energy &amp; Environment Issues<\/a>. Overall, I&#8217;d say that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.exxonmobil.com\/\">ExxonMobil<\/a> are getting <a href=\"http:\/\/www.exxonsecrets.org\/html\/orgfactsheet.php?id=55\">great VFM<\/a> on their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.exxonmobil.com\/Corporate\/Files\/Corporate\/gcr_contributions_public06.pdf\">donations to NCPA<\/a> [PDF] if they&#8217;re now being quoted as a credible, balanced source.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dave Bidini&#8216;s article in today&#8217;s Globe &amp; Mail, An ill wind blows (now irritatingly hidden behind a paywall, but helpfully cached here) troubles me about what got through basic fact-checking: &#8220;The turbines expected on the island are open-bladed, a style being replaced in Europe by closed-blade turbines, which do less damage to wildlife.&#8221; What are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,8],"tags":[1000,1001,59,1002],"class_list":["post-3381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-goatee-stroking-musing-or-something","category-wind-things","tag-bidini","tag-globeandmail","tag-wind","tag-wolfe"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQNZZ-Sx","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3381\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}