Divisive wind farm proposals - Put people first, build all units at sea

NOT every community is lucky enough to have an Erin Brockovich, the fearless American legal clerk who successfully challenged the powerful Pacific Gas and Electric Company of California in 1993 over water supplies degraded by mining. 

Despite that, more and more communities, especially in rural Ireland, feel a pressing need for one.

Everything from fracking, gas pipelines, open-cast mining, blanket forestry, mega-pylons, expanding airports, incinerators, farm monocultures stretching to horizons, landfill dumps, fish farms, high-rise developments — and maybe even nuclear plants in years to come — change the living space of families and communities in profound ways.