Civil Initiatives to Jointly Plan Strategy for Wind Farm–Free Slovenia

Civil initiatives to jointly plan strategy for wind farm–free Slovenia

The Association of Civil Initiatives for Wind Farm-free Slovenia, uniting eleven local groups that oppose the planned winds farms in their local environments, held its first public meeting in Zreče on Friday evening. They say that Slovenia is not suitable for wind farms, which would cause more damage than bring benefits. V Zrečah srečanje civilnih iniciativ, ki nasprotujejo vetrnim elektrarnam V Zrečah je v petek zvečer potekalo prvo srečanje Zd…

Rozmari Petek, in her commentary on Experimenting in Nature, writes about the arguments of civil initiatives against the construction of wind farms. She points out that Slovenia's dispersed population is not in favor of the construction of a single wind turbine, let alone a field of wind farms, such as the ones we see when we go on a summer vacation to Dalmatia or to the airport in Vienna.