California’s wind power proponents promised a clean, green future – instead, they’ve delivered a wholesale environmental disaster.
In the desert surrounding Ocotillo, locals have been putting up with wind turbines self-immolating, throwing their blades in all directions, leaking and spraying oil and collapsing to the desert floor, for years now (see our post here).
Here’s a tale of what a ‘clean’, ‘green’ energy future really looks like.
Ocotillo Wind Turbine Collapses Again
East County Magazine
Henri Migala and Miriam Raftery
20 September 2021
Residents in Ocotillo are voicing concerns after yet another wind turbine collapse at the Ocotillo Wind Energy facility. There were no injuries or damage to other structures when the 300-foot-tall turbine crashed to the desert floor at the trouble-prone facility on Thursday, September 16. But residents are raising serious questions over public safety at the site, which produces energy to SDG&E to power the San Diego…
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