West Virginia Wild & Wonderful or Wind Turbines?

[davekathyderek]

I grew up near the area where the wind turbines are at now, and I must say that they look much better than abandoned coal strips and clearcuts. Why not make use of something useless? Who cares about Indianna bats? They dont even belong there anyways.

[minfinity22]

Which is more likely to help keep West Virginia Wild & Wonderful?  Wind turbines or the current main energy industry here - coal mining? If the choice were national parks or wind turbines, I could see the point, but given that it is wind turbines or coal mining, especially mountain top removal, this video looks more like a lobbyist's attempt to influence naive viewers than a true question.

[53lincoln]

You ever notice how its the people with all the money in the world and who dont need to work are always the ones bitching about any new industry coming to the area? Its always been that way in Lewisburg too. As I understand it, the paper mill

in Covington could have been here in Greenbrier County if not for this kind of shit.

BTW, if you show me a Snowshoe Hare in Greenbrier County, Ill eat it........lol

[aamick11]

you show me a snowshoe hare on beech ridge and ill kiss your ass,these people lie.bunch of damn tree huggers piss me off.go control your own property this is america not canada,hell with that bat let indiana protect them around here we have bat killins,and always will

[aamick11]

i worked on these windmills and live within 12 miles of them.screw the bats if there dumb enough to fly into a windmill then something else will surely kill em before they get to beech knob,why do some peolpe asume they have a sayso over what goes on private property,nice to see something other than a briar grow out of that slate dump

[gbaker699]

I am working up here on these turbines say what you want they are here got 4 more to build.....next year drive around the turbines and take notice to the nice roads and green grass... Local ppl build them there are only a veiw travelers simply to show them steps.....

[cankins]

One last thing..PLEASE do not link "WV folks' in one sentence.

The coal industry has been the squeaky wheel for quite a long time...mountaintop removal is in it's own greedy path causing the extinction of a much more valuable and sacred species....

NATIVE WEST VIRGINIANS.

[cankins]

I also wonder...how many of those multi-million dollar homes ALREADY built...have misplaced habitat native to the area??

And as for jobs and tourism...we have a CASINO coming to the Greenbrier soon....but then...if you can't SEE the gambling from your home.....all is well.

[cankins]

"Long term negative economic impact"..

.translation for those not familiar with the area...

those who own a huge percentage of the area and have been selling it to developers to build those.....'dream homes' (you know the one's someone spends a week a year in...but raises the property tax for everyone) will have to settle for a little less cash in their pockets.

[74VDC]

You can own your property, but you cannot own your view. I do have sympathy for your concern, but we need clean energy, and it is NOT an insignificant amount. That is FLAT untrue. Funny how you WV folks never seem to complain when a coalfield is permitted. Why is that?

Again, I'm not busting you...the mountains are truly beautiful...I don't like anything unnatural in my view, but I'd rather see wind turbines any day that a 1000' smokestack.

[TheNorthforker]

This video is so biased and baseless when it comes to facts. These mountain ridgetops are covered in minespoil and logging clearcuts, further, they are ALL private property. The roads depicted are in early stages of construction and have been seeded and mulched, 60 days from now the flyover will reveal green ribbons and manicured access roads. These turbines will not be visible from public roads or public property. What is it going to be? Green energy or perpetual foreign dependence on oil?

[anoniab]

TheNorthforker-"These turbines will not be visible from public roads or public property"

And what of privat property?

About foreign oil: People you have a good trading relationship with aren't likely to kill you. Green energy is just as negative as "fossil fuel"; it's just negative in a different way.

[EddyG54]

based on this logic, we should not have coal, airports, highways or even electricity.