NIMBYS HAVE A tendency to react with shock and surprise when they find there’s a bigger world out there and such proved the case with the Swanage flavour of this species on January 13th.
Apparently those nasty Eneco people are going to plonk a bloody great wind farm about 9 miles off the coast of Swanage and spoil their sea views and of course it would be much better installed on someone else’s patch and its all a con and a conspiracy and inefficient blaah blaah ….
Eneco are capitalists and yes we would prefer that sustainable energy was a resource built, owned and run by the community it will serve and that the energy would be free at the point of delivery but that ain’t gonna happen anytime soon.
Meantime the planet continues to cook and Dorset continues to get away with putting bugger all into the national grid and freeloading off working class communities that live in the shadow of coal, gas, oil fired and nuclear power stations in other parts of the UK.
Imagine then the look on their faces when hoards of fluffy greenies turned up at their little ‘we don’t want a wind farm in our little town’ demo on the 13th January to put the case for sustainable energy. Equipped with the usual windmills, carnival dragons, colourful kites and all the rest of it the look on the collective nimby mug was priceless and their link hands protest that had been cobbled together by the usual hi-tech method of word of mouth and a paragraph or two in the local rag was thrown into total disarray; they didn’t quite know how to deal with miffed counter demonstrators that forced them to look at such scary things as livid jugglers and demented musicians.
Still, when their megatoff tory MP man of the people Richard Grosvenor Plunkett-Ernle-Erle-Drax (W.T.F.!) turned up to dry their tears and reassure them that their little bit of the planet was exempt from trying to arrest the effects of climate change they felt a bit better and had a good shout at the fluffies who just juggled and sang a little more.
Well, the nimby wannabe toffs retired to their clubs, pubs and discussed the fact that the world was bit bigger than they thought it was and they probably need to stop marrying their cousins if they were to have any stake in the its future.
