Germany Begins Felling 120,000 Trees From ‘Fairy Tale’ Forest to Make Way for Wind Turbines
By Paul Homewood
h/t Patsy Lacey
The windmills are spinning golden subsidies in the central German ‘fairy tale’ forest of Reinhardswald, but the payment is the partial destruction of the 1,000 year-old ancient wood itself. Work has started on the clearing of up to 120,000 trees in the forest, the setting for many of the Brothers Grimm mythical stories, to provide access for an initial 18 giant wind turbines around the Sababurg ‘Sleeping Beauty’ castle. Who is opposing this massive destruction of the ancient forest teeming with wildlife with trees over 200 years old? Certainly not the Green party, now in power at national and local level. In fact the project is being led by local Hesse Green Minister Priska Hinz who is reported to have said: “Wind energy makes a decisive contribution to the energy transition and the preservation of nature. It is the only way to preserve forests and important ecosystems.”
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NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT 
Not to worry —they can feed the trees into Drax-type furnaces and save the planet.
On the other hand…..
Only a “green” could argue that felling ancient woodland is the way to preserve forests.
Idiots. There’ll be forest there again long after we’re all gone.
Madness, not what you would expect from Germany (well not from most Germans)
Well, actually this sort of madness is exactly where Germany currently is. With news every week from blackout news of a new bankruptcy or factory closure and relocation of production out of Germany, their idiots are reduced to imploring companies to run themselves for Germany. Ein Folk, Ein Reich, Ein WEF comes to mind.
I take it that a team of experts developed sampling plan(s) to collect cores from the trees for evaluation.
“It became necessary to destroy the forest to save it.”
H/t Peter Arnett, Bến Tre, 1968
GC, it is an education in itself just reading your posts.
Having recently watched Blazing Saddles it brings to mind the scene where Sheriff Bart threatens to shoot himself to escape the townspeople as they realise his skin doesn’t support a suntan.
120,000 Trees
How much is that? An acre? Fag pack calc says half a square mile.
But is a new unit for our list.
Gamecock,
an acre is far too small for a wind farm, although it doesn’t seem to state it’s size?
Preserving by destroying! Ay, there’s the rub!
I watch a feed from someone who drives past quite a few wind farms in Central Germany and I have yet to see any spinning at any great speed. It is a fact, and you can find the map (try ICSF), that vast areas of the world are totally unsuitable for wind energy because there ain’t no wind.
Ach, never mind all that ! … has nobody else heard the following from “Tesla Town” in Germany ? 1. A Large FIRE in a Factory Building there this week. 2. Terrorism suggested for the Fire on a PYLON, not only disrupting factory power output, but a local town of 10,000 has been without power , too.
Not a word from UK MSM
O/T also on German TV ( 2 days running) this week : What happened to the 2-5 ton Battery Pack from the ISS coming home to roost somewhere unknown. Has it landed yet ?
“Decisive contribution to the energy transition”. Have they not understood the meaning of ‘decisive’.
Nowadays it is not only a problem with scientific understanding or the refusal to acknowledge the evidence but to be able to write properly to express the point. It’s not an issue of translation but the casual illiteracy of some scientific minds.
Apols. as again my pedantry is revealed . Usually it’s the media columnists that get it in the neck. Reminds me of the old Hancock joke: ” I knew he was’nt English as he spoke it too well”.
There is truth in the joke.
This is what happens when you allow extreme ideology into government. It’s nothing to do with the environment, more about undemocratic authoritarianism and hard left politics. The greens are a minority activist outfit who care little for anyone else.
In a nutshell Devoncamel. Another succinct appraisal worth circulating to all MPs. However I think that the catharsis of the next general election is required to get rid of the naifs in the H of C who cannot understand what you are saying or will not give time to do their homework.
Pity that politics is regarded by the few able to do the job as a worthy vocation.
I disagree, Devoncamel. Your problem is unlimited government power. There are no people who won’t eventually abuse it.
This is what happens when you allow extreme ideology into government. It’s nothing to do with the environment, more about undemocratic authoritarianism and hard left politics. The greens are a minority activist outfit who care little for anyone else.
Klymutt like all the other leftie embraced causes is a tool not a goal.
The photo appears to be of a young {about 10 years old) stand of pioneer species. It is not an ancient forest. An ‘image’ search for the following will show what the forest looks like: forest of Reinhardswald
Looking at the back right of the picture, the trees are so dense that 120,000 might be just one acre.
Stupid is as stupid does
You just cannot make this stuff up!