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Originally Posted by brianidaho
I'd like to see regulations passes such that all waste is kept/treated within the county (not sure the equivalent political subdivision in Europe) that produces them.
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In the UK all of our counties include urban and rural areas, as far as I know, so that wouldn't make any difference. I guess maybe in the USA it's different. There's no such thing as an untouched place in England, even the ancient woodlands have been used by humans to varying extents over time. I guess the closest is around hte highland in Scotland, but even they have been populated in the past. On TV America looks like it has lots of land where humans have probably never set foot, so I guess it might be a diffrent situation. (At which point Forfi's Mum gives me a massive lecture on how terrible wind turbines are, wherever they are).
I don't think it's neceesarily true about city dwellers trying to force rural people to put up with the plant etc. Alot of people I know in cities honestly don't seem to have a problem with the idea of having wind turbines in cities and ironically it can be some of the city dwellers that get most upset about siting wind turbines in the countryside (ramblers associations etc).
I've seen quite a few of the little microwind turbines dotted around cities, it's just that the significance of their output is questionable.