Proposed wind turbines in Switzerland’s Linth region have been rejected local communities, the media report. Parts of Switzerland want no part of blighting their landscape in the name of environmental protection.
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Little wonder!
Here’s what wind energy opposition organization Linth Gegenwind (Linth Headwind) shows what the otherwise idyllic Swiss landscape would end looking like by 2040 if the projects went ahead.
An artist’s depiction of what the Linth region would look like by 2040 if proposed wind projects were approved. Sanity appears to have returned. Image: Linth Gegenwind.
Wind energy is losing its luster for many reasons, but among them is the obvious industrial blight to the landscape they cause.
Wind turbines in Bilten rejected
In the latest step to protect the landscape from industrialization, Swiss SRF public broadcasting here reported on November 6 that the up to 5 controversial wind turbines, which had been planned to be erected in the middle of a “densely residential area”, were rejected on the grounds they would lead to “landscape blighting”.
The SRF quotes local Glarner government councilman Kaspar Becker:
We have come to the conclusion that it is not necessarily clever to pursue such things in densely populated areas.”
In response, wind energy opposition site Linth Gegenwind writes: “Common sense has prevailed!”
Honegg-Oberfeld wind park flat out rejected
Also recently the Swiss online appenzell24.ch has reported that the proposed Honegg-Oberfeld wind park was outright rejected.
On November 6, 2018, Appenzell24 wrote the local commission decided against the Honegg-Oberfeld district as a wind power location. Thus no wind farm can be built there.
On this, wind energy protest organization Linth Gegenwind writes at its website:
The reason is, above all, protection of the landscape. During the consultation process there were 60 in favor and 500 against the planned wind farm. Opponents also include Appenzell Ausserrhoden, St. Gallen, the state of Vorarlberg and the community presidents’ conference Ausserrhoden.”
According to the Appenzell24.ch, the 5 wind turbines with a hub height of 135 meters, would have resulted in “massive disadvantages for the landscape’s appearance”, according to opponents.
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November 13, 2018 at 07:09AM
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