Wasting away in wind and solar-Ville: the harm to the environment of "green" grift | Eastern North Carolina Now

Real Clear Investigations has a new article out that speaks to some of the environmental harm from so-called "green" energy, namely wind and solar.  It addresses the huge solid waste problems created by worn out wind turbines and solar panels, many of which are going into landfills.

https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2025/05/15/wasting_away_in_wind-and-solarville_1110296.html

Some of what goes into both wind turbines and solar panels is toxic, including carcinogens.  There are dangers of this stuff getting into the ground water from wind turbines and solar panels and their disposal.  Indeed, in Ontario, Canada, five wind energy companies have been criminally indicted for multiple felonies of polluting the groundwater.

Wind and solar are harmful to the environment in other ways as well.  Especially with wind, they are major killers of birds and marine mammals including whales.

Unlike conventional power, wind and solar are both land intensive, and that often means clearcutting forests to build wind and solar "farms".  In Germany, the Baden-Wurtemberg state government led by the "Green" Party is chopping down swaths of the famed Black Forest to install wind turbines.  Farther north, the ancient Reinhartwald forest, setting for the Grimm's Fairy Tales is under threat of being destroyed for wind turbines.  In Scotland, the government forestry agency calculates that 13.9 million trees have been chopped down on government land in that country for wind and solar, not even including trees on private land.

https://docs.wind-watch.org/Scottish-Forestry-FoI-19-02646.pdf