The windmills are spinning golden subsidies in the central German ‘fairy tale’ forest of Reinhardswald, but the payment is the partial destruction of the 1,000 year-old ancient wood itself. Work has started on the clearing of up to 120,000 trees in the forest, the setting for many of the Brothers Grimm mythical stories, to provide access for an initial 18 giant wind turbines around the Sababurg ‘Sleeping Beauty’ castle. Who is opposing this massive destruction of the ancient forest teeming with wildlife with trees over 200 years old? Certainly not the Green party, now in power at national and local level. In fact the project is being led by local Hesse Green Minister Priska Hinz who is reported to have said: “Wind energy makes a decisive contribution to the energy transition and the preservation of nature. It is the only way to preserve forests and important ecosystems.”
There is some local press interest in Germany about the destruction of part of the forest that covers a 200 square kilometre area. Nevertheless, the mainstream media generally keep well away from covering environmental destruction when the Greens are doing it in the claimed cause of saving the planet. The BBC did cover the story under the headline ‘Battle over wind turbines in the land of Sleeping Beauty‘, but that was in 2013 when plans for the industrial development were first announced. It seems that the state-reliant broadcaster is less interested now that the Big Bad Wolf has finally made a meal of Little Red Riding Hood.
Pierre Gosselin, who runs the German-based science site No Tricks Zone, has been covering the outrage felt in a number of German quarters at the plans to destroy some of the Reinhardswald forest in the interest of inferior green technology. He feels the affair shows what an inefficient and costly scam green energy is. “It’s not cost-free, it’s full of corrupt and unresponsive politicians who no longer care about democracy, and it certainly doesn’t make the environment better. It’s a nasty juggernaut of waste, fraud, corruption and ecological degradation – with dead birds, turbine vibration sickness, strobe dizziness and landscape pollution,” he adds.
The Guardian has been curiously silent over the clearing of woodland to build wind turbines in Hesse. In 2020 it was less reticent about reporting on the construction of a 3 km highway in another Hessian forest at Dannenroder. Thousands of climate activists gathered on the site north of Frankfurt, it reported. Dannenroder tree-felling would be a catastrophe, environmental campaigners are reported to have said. “Some parts of this forest are 250 years old,” noted Nicola Uhde of the German Federation for the Environment and Nature Conservation (Bund), “and there is simply not much of this kind of woodland around anymore.” At the time, the Guardian noted the fate of Dannenroder was a “litmus test for the Green party” which governed the state as part of a coalition. It seems to have been remiss in not suggesting such a test with the Reinhardswald deforestation. But then it seems none of the usual climate activists have been protesting about the loss of trees and wildlife habitat on this occasion.
The Daily Sceptic has reported on numerous recent examples where the lack of interest in ecological damage is a feature of green industrial development. Last month, we noted that one of India’s iconic large birds, the great Indian bustard, was on the verge of extinction due to the growth of electric power lines in its home area of the Thar desert. To reach global Net Zero, it has been estimated that new power lines equivalent to circling the globe 2,000 times will need to be built in the next few years.
Last October, we reported that wind farms in Tasmania had reduced the population of the endangered local wedge-tailed eagle to around 1,000 individuals. Across the world, millions of bats are being chewed by giant wind blades. Any animal that relies on wind currents for flight such as a large raptor is at risk of being sucked into the whirling machines. In California, the Democrat-controlled state Government recently relaxed controls on wildlife protections to allow permits to kill previously fully protected species for renewable infrastructure projects. Despite an increased risk to America’s national bird, the bald eagle, barely a peep of protest was recorded. Off America’s eastern coast, massive industrial parks are being constructed for wind turbines. It might be a coincidence that hundreds of whales have beached along the shore in recent years, but a more likely explanation is the deafening sonar noise, constant pile driving, extensive ocean building works and heavy shipping movements.
None of the above are likely to feature when the magic mirror is asked: “Mirror, mirror on the wall, who’s the greenest one of all?”
Chris Morrison is the Daily Sceptic’s Environment Editor.
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Lucy and countless other non-violent patriots that have either been wrongfully imprisoned because of posting words, or arrested for attending a protest and shouting at a police dog or waving a British flag etc all demonstrate the irrefutable fact that there is no free speech, only permitted speech. So if you want to hit the streets with thousands of like-minded buddies and shout about how much you love terrorists, hate your country/Jews/’TERFs’ etc, you’re all good, because *that* is the subject matter and language which is considered ‘free speech’ by the U.K government and their Stasi goon squads. Oh, and ‘Muslims – good, Christians – bad’, as the goings on in Speakers Corner regularly illustrate;
”Britain today is sleepwalking into a two-tier legal system where speech is policed not by principle, but by political sensitivity. “Islamophobia” has become a weaponised term – used to silence criticism, criminalise dissent, and shield an ideology from scrutiny. Not individuals, not communities – an ideology. That distinction matters.
The police, once guardians of impartial law and order, now act as ideological enforcers – raiding homes for wrongthink, interrogating citizens for memes, and standing idle while mobs march with genocidal slogans. All while Christian street preachers are arrested, and veterans are dragged through the courts for tweets.
This isn’t progress. It’s submission masquerading as tolerance. The British justice system, once the envy of the free world, now grovels before a new blasphemy code – one written not in Parliament, but in the back rooms of activist NGOs and religious pressure groups.
Free speech is not a luxury. It’s the foundation of civilisation. And if we keep trading it away to appease those who shout loudest, we won’t just lose our liberty – we’ll lose our country.”
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Who is Lucy Connolly’s MP? why is her MP not jumping up and down protesting about this appalling injustice? Prior to the introduction of twitter and social media ordinary folk could only moan to their mates over the garden fence or down the pub and nobody took much notice. ~People said the same sort of things in the past it is just that now they have invented social media and people can ”publish” themselves on line. It is as if us hoi-polloi are being punished for getting above our station and daring to publish our politically incorrect comments ‘on-line’.
In all of this there does seem to me to be a strong element of the ruling elite being in fear of the ‘hoi-polloi’ terrified of the mob. If we had just kept our horrid comments to chats over the garden fence it would have been OK but now the garden fence has become twitter and that is just too much and we must be punished and put back in our box.
As much as I’m behind this I feel it’s remiss of the people who keep reporting on Lucy’s predicament to continually fail to mention the many others who were also wrongfully imprisoned and are being made an example of by the authoritarian Starmer government. If we recall at the time, there were *many* others arrested and imprisoned, after no doubt being pressured and intimidated into pleading guilty because they couldn’t afford expensive legal representation.
I feel strongly that every other patriot stuck languishing in a cell, time that they’ll never get back, is being forgotten about. Aren’t their situations similar to Lucy? They’re all in the same boat and there for the same reasons, after all. But they deserve to have their names kept in the public’s conscience just as much as Lucy Connolly’s because I fear they’re all being forgotten about, their own individual plights fading due to lack of attention because the spotlight seems to be exclusively on Lucy.
Tommy Robinson, the man they love to hate.
The Lucy Connolly case and all the other cases are warnings to us. The warnings are designed to intimidate us into silence, and to try to make us to shut up while we watch our country and people destroyed. The warnings are the sign that democracy and free-speech are dead in our country, and that our mortal enemy now controls our government.
If the sentence is not overthrown we will know for sure the judiciary consider it their role to persecute people whose views differ from the line taken by the elites.
Well done to the Free Speech Union & Laurie Wastell for highlighting the appalling injustice meted out to Lucy Connolly and countless other British Patriots.
I thought the judge was supposed to be releasing her from prison yesterday or the day before!!!???
Just to remind everyone, this “Induce Trauma through Injustice” is part of the Marxist Frankfurt School 11-Point Plan to Destroy the West:
1. Create Racism Offences for Whites Only.
2. Induce Trauma through Injustice.
3. Teach Sex and Sodomy to Children.
4. Undermine Parents’ and Teachers’ Authority.
5. Force Mass Immigration to Destroy Ethnic Identity.
6. Create Confusion by Continual Change.
7. Empty the Churches.
8. Encourage Crime to Destabilize Society.
9. Create Dependency on the State by Welfare Benefits.
10. Promote Drugs, Pornography and Alcoholism.
11. Encourage the Breakdown of the Family.
And there is one ideology that has been working away at this for a while:
“If we can effectively kill the national pride and patriotism of just one generation, we will have won that country. Therefore we must continue propaganda abroad to undermine the loyalty of citizens in general and of teen-agers in particular.”
Lavrentiy Beria
“To produce a maximum of chaos in the culture of the enemy is our first most important step. Our fruits are grown in chaos, distrust, economic depression and scientific turmoil. At least a weary populace can seek peace only in our offered Communist State, at last only Communism can resolve the problems of the masses.”
Lavrentiy Beria
Totalitarian State.
The video report very nicely done. Thanks.