Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2012-01-19-Speech-4-045-000"
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"en.20120119.3.4-045-000"2
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"Madam President, I want to focus on the energy aspects of Mr Bové’s excellent report because improving energy efficiency on our farms is an absolute imperative. I would caution, however, against the race for erecting massive wind turbines on farms. In Scotland right now, the modern equivalent of snake oil salesmen are knocking on doors throughout the countryside trying to persuade hard-pressed farmers to part with vast sums of cash in exchange for having one of these industrial monsters erected on their land with the promise of pots of gold.
However, as the recent storms have demonstrated, these turbines are often subject to catastrophic failure, and even when they are working, they only produce a trickle of electricity. As a result, many farmers in Scotland have found that they have rusting hulks on their land which are earning nothing and costing them a fortune. Instead of having signs on farm gates that say ‘Beware of the bull’, farmers should have signs on their gates which say ‘Beware of the bullshit’!"@en1
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