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“Mike, we are a green energy company, but the green stands for money.”

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Jeffrey Skilling is a prominent figure in the business world. Born on November 25, 1953, his specific professional category is not publicly disclosed. He is known for his role as the CEO of Enron Corporation. more

“The current anger at the march of turbines and pylons across the hills of Britain is not from nimbys. Government money has lubricated most backyard owners to support wind power. It comes from those who appreciate the beauty of the countryside and who question the industrial spoliation of miles of open landscape for a pitiful net gain to climate change.”

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Author:Simon Jenkins

“Hopelessly uneconomic on any substantial scale, since it requires a conventional power back-up for when the wind stops blowing, forests of wind turbines are rightly regarded in most countries as an environmental monstrosity.”

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Author:Nigel Lawson

“Don't get the idea that I've turned green. My business is making money, and I think this is going to make a lot of money.”

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Author:T. Boone Pickens

“I will do anything that is basically covered by the law to reduce Berkshire's tax rate. For example, on wind energy, we get a tax credit if we build a lot of wind farms. That's the only reason to build them. They don't make sense without the tax credit.”

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Author:Warren Buffett

“One of the messages I presented to the coal industry was, "If you want to have major transmission built, start encouraging wind development." That's because the cultural value and acceptance of wind energy provides an opportunity to build transmission lines that are not as desirable with traditional forms of generation.”

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Author:Kevin Cramer

“Onshore wind turbines are visually a very considerable intrusion on any landscape.”

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Author:Tim Yeo

“Profit and bottom line, the contemporary mantra, eliminates the very source of architectural expression.”

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Author:Arthur Erickson

“The wind, as a direct motive power, is wholly inapplicable to a system of machine labour, for during a calm season the whole business of the country would be thrown out of gear. Before the era of steam-engines, windmills were tried for draining mines; but though they were powerful machines, they were very irregular, so that in a long tract of calm weather the mines were drowned, and all the workmen thrown idle.”

Source: The coal question: an enquiry concerning the progress of the Nation, and the probable exhaustion of our coal-mines

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