How often have I and others pointed out that the enviro-weenies and climate morons are always agitating for the use of “renewable” energy sources, yet, when push comes to shove, they won’t allow them to be built? And here we go again: ‘A Few Brave People’ Fight to Protect Turkey’s Black Sea Region from Destructive Dams
Goat herder Meryem Demircan’s house in Turkey’s Kotaf uplands appears to float above a sea of clouds, the mist-shrouded hills all around rugged and green. The setting and way of life there drew the former Istanbul dweller to the area, part of the Ä°kizdere Valley — its name means “twin streams” — in the Black Sea region. Now both are threatened by the government’s plans to build hundreds of dams. To do so, though, it will have to get past Demircan and others like her: “Our rivers, streams, stones, and land are not for sale; nor are we,” she says.
Granted, while building dams the land can be damaged, which is a shame. And then they can replant the trees and such. Land is always changing. Welcome to reality. Of course, these hardy goat herders would prefer to live in the 14th century than have modern (and supposedly clean) power. And these brave Muslim hippies, who grow tea, fish for trout, and raise bees (hey, isn’t holding wildlife in slavery bad in Gaia World?), see their world in danger
All this is threatened by the heavy machinery being brought into the area to build at least 464 hydroelectric power stations planned for the region — 10 to 20 per river valley. They gouge the land, rip out trees, send mudslides running down denuded hills, turning the water — what’s not being diverted through pipes — brown.
So, “green” energy is apparently bad. Interestingly, Treehugger doesn’t even notice the disconnect between pushing green energy and stopping it from actually being built.
