Arguments for wind turbines blowing hot and cold as rural dwellers complain

Turbines are key to the Government’s climate-change policy, but rural dwellers contend that they are injurious and noisy, a claim the High Court will soon consider says Michael Clifford

NOW that we can do nothing to curb cows passing wind, wherefore the harnessing of wind?

That question takes on great relevance, following this week’s climate change conference in Paris. Enda Kenny spoke there and purported to be a leader of efforts to arrest climate change. And then he made special pleading for Ireland’s agriculture sector, which ramps up carbon emissions, principally through cows passing wind. If it wasn’t so serious, it would be hilarious.