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Meanwhile, even worse is the effort to fight wind turbines - an extremely-well-organized network set up by the fossil fuel industry that uses local residents to astroturf for them. They provide talking points, lawn signs, graphics, guidance on social media posts, the works.

https://climateadvocacylab.org/resource/against-wind-map-ant...

One of their victims was Cape Wind. The project would have made the cape and islands almost 75% carbon-free power for decades.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cape_Wind

They've been desperately trying to kill off Vineyard Wind, too. And they have killed off many individual turbine projects.

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