This week, Earth Beat is looking the issues surrounding NIMBYism (or Not in My Backyard). They’re the future, they’re a source of renewable energy, but wind turbines are typical of structures that most people don't want anywhere near their property.

Host Marnie Chesterton hears about two communities that were affected by wind turbines. One is a rural town in upstate New York which was split apart by the offer by developers to install forty 400-foot turbines. Filmmaker Laura Israel documented the escalating trouble as neighbour turned against neighbour in her film Windfall. And Pieter Beije is a Dutch farmer who bought wind turbines to support his income after his vegetable harvest couldn't support him and his family.
 
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This story was taken from the latest edition of Earth Beat - Not In My Backyard.
 
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