Don’t be fooled by their smiles: these people are furious.

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The following pieces – the first from Lancashire, England, the second from Charlotte, upstate New York – are permeated with a sense of seething rage.

While the wind industry, its parasites and spruikers still attempt the line that rural communities are falling over themselves to get in on some wind farm action, as usual, the spin and the reality are paddocks apart.

Here’s what really happens when these things are threatened upon peaceful and prosperous rural communities.

Protest walk over wind farm attracts over 100 people
Bury Times
4 June 2016

A PROTEST walk over controversial plans to build an extra 16 wind turbines at a Rossendale wind farm attracted over 100 people.

Adults, children, babies and dogs came together for the walk from Cowpe Road in Waterfoot along the Pennine Bridleway to Waugh’s Well.

The walkers had protest…