A wind farm has to be set up, 35 mills with a height of two hundred metres. Right in front of their nose. And some of the inhabitants of the Groningen village of Meeden do not pick that up. 'You can have a free opinion in this country', says Jan Hendriks, one of the forefront, cynically. 'If it's just their opinion. Really amazing!'Ordinary Dutch people who face an indifferent, harsh or even unjust government in their eyes. They decide to hit back.

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Broken promises: how the Wieringermeer polder silted with wind turbines and data centers
Ah, all those straight rows of colossal windmills in the head of North Holland. The Netherlands is on the road to renewable energy! Or not. Carola Houtekamer and Merijn Rengers found that the power from the Swedish Vattenfall's heavily subsidized project does not go to 370,000 households at all, but is swallowed up by the new data centers of Microsoft, among others, that are being deployed along the A7. They swallow 2 percent of all the power in the Netherlands. The greenhouses around are still on gas and Microsoft's residual heat is blowing up the IJsselmeer.

If we want to satisfy all parties, we need two North Seas
If climate targets are to be met, the North Sea is going to change dramatically. The entire operation with thousands of new windmills is larger in size than the Delta Works. The interventions have far-reaching implications for nature, shipping and, above all, fishing.

Wind power losers and winners
Wind energy is big business. Winners are wind farms investors in Groningen and Drenthe. They earn between EUR 2.4 million and 3 million euros per wind turbine over 15 years, partly thanks to a government grant of €550 million. Losers, on the other hand, are the residents of wind farms in the northern Netherlands. They have to account for a decrease in value of their homes of an estimated EUR 87 million.

The Green Court of Auditors.
One of the arguments of starting wind energy was the expectation that it could be saved on fuel: if the wind blows, you don't have to deprive coal or gas.? And on the basis of that expectation, all kinds of parties hope to drag in billions through emissions certificate trading. FRAUD! says physicist Fred Udo! There is a wide range of scientific material that shows that the megalomaniac Dutch wind ambitions will not save splash of CO2 emissions, maybe even increase CO2 emissions.
Report: Why the KNMI senario doesn't come true.  

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