MineralMan and other dummies trash East Coast Magazine

[Tess Anderson]

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Mon May 20, 2013, 02:06 PM

 MineralMan (53,844 posts)

More Wind Power Industry Stuff & Nonsense from East County Magazine

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 The Thot Plickens!

http://eastcountymagazine.org/node/13237

READER’S EDITORIAL: STOP POISONING OUR COMMUNITY! HERBICIDE SPRAYING IS WIND INDUSTRY’S TOXIC SECRET
 
“Pattern Energy is going to pollute what it couldn't destroy… Monsanto’s Roundup was the ingredient in Agent Orange--the defoliant sprayed in Viet Nam that harmed a generation of veterans and their children… This herbicide—a neurotoxin--is going to get carried downwind. Did Pattern fail to notice that there is still a community with children here in spite of its industrialization of the area with 112 turbines and a substation?”
 
By Linda Ewing, Ocotillo resident

May 14, 2013 (Ocotillo) -- Herbicide Mitigation? What is that? I heard these two disturbing words and felt panic.
 
I knew instinctively that it was going to have something to do with this Ocotillo Wind Energy Facility because nothing good has come from this controversial project since the day Pattern Energy uttered its first words of deception to the town of Ocotillo. Since the day the company first tried to convince us that its massive 438 foot-tall industrial-sized wind turbines were good for the economy. And yes, the very same day we realized that human lives were disposable and irrelevant in the statistical world of giant wind turbine developers.
 
I had to know. Why would a wind turbine project need herbicides? This had to be related to the Environmental Impact Report that Pattern Energy first blinded this community with and it definitely had to do with the off-site mitigation efforts that needed to be performed. What does all of this mean? Are you confused? Let me put it into simpler terms.

My Boldfacing. The statement is patently untrue, so why should anyone believe anything in this article, and why was no fact-checking applied? This calls into question anything that appears in this publication regarding wind electrical generation. It is bullshit.
 

Response to MineralMan (Original post)

Mon May 20, 2013, 02:18 PM

 Buzz Clik (28,726 posts)

5. "Monsanto’s Roundup was the ingredient in Agent Orange, the defoliant sprayed in Viet Nam" ....

Ummmm..

Nevermind. Facts are not the order of the day.

Whoever wrote this is an idiot.

There. I said it.

Response to MineralMan (Original post)

Mon May 20, 2013, 03:52 PM

 NCTraveler (1,719 posts)

38. Some of that site reads like the Onion.

Well, a poorly written version of the Onion.

http://eastcountymagazine.org/node/13184

Response to NCTraveler (Reply #38)

Mon May 20, 2013, 03:54 PM

 SidDithers (27,027 posts)

40. My favourite headline from ECM...

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BLADLESS TURBINE MAKERS CLAIM TURBINES COULD PRODUCE MORE POWER WITH LESS PROBLEMS
 http://eastcountymagazine.org/taxonomy/term/21459


Maybe the ECM editor should spend less time trying to convince DUers that the "stray voltage" from wind turbines cause cancer, and more time actually editing.
 
Sid

[Skul]

Had to read over the whole thing. 
Somebodies getting poked with a stick.
One string of comments caught the eye.

Response to MineralMan (Original post)
Mon May 20, 2013, 02:46 PM
Cirque du So-What (8,864 posts)
24. Who wrote this shit? Take a guess. 

and will I be placed on 'ignore' for mentioning it? Oh hell yes.

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Response to Cirque du So-What (Reply #24)
Mon May 20, 2013, 02:48 PM
 MineralMan (53,844 posts)
26. The author's name is in the quotation. Not a DUer. Riiiiiight.

nt

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Response to MineralMan (Reply #26)
Mon May 20, 2013, 02:50 PM
Cirque du So-What (8,864 posts)
27. Yes, but

that's not nearly as funny. Ya think?

A certain DUmpscrunt is about to put the entire DUmp on the iggy list. 
Hate to see that happen. Really I do.

[JohnnyReb]

2-4-D......wasn't that the poisonous chemical in Agent Orange?

[Skul]

2-4-D......wasn't that the poisonous chemical in Agent Orange?

As I recall, yes it was.
Could be wrong.
May have been due to the concentration. Just not sure.

[Chris_]

The only place I see Roundup being declared identical to Agent Orange is on liberal blogs.  Certainly no reputable news outlets are repeating it because it isn't true.  If you want a laugh, Google Agent Orange and Roundup.  The hand-wringing is ridiculously entertaining.

AO is a combination of 2,4-D and 2,4,5-T.  Roundup's active ingredient is Glyphosate.

[Skul]

The only place I see Roundup being declared identical to Agent Orange is on liberal blogs.  Certainly no reputable news outlets are repeating it because it isn't true.  If you want a laugh, Google Agent Orange and Roundup.  The hand-wringing is ridiculously entertaining.

AO is a combination of 2,4-D and 2,4,5-T.  Roundup's active ingredient is Glyphosate.

Now that you mention it.  I'm beginning to think it was the 2,4,5,T that was the problem.
For some reason I recall actually looking for and buying herbisides that had 2,4,D in them.
That was mid 70's.  Again, I can't swear to it, just seems to ring a bell.