{"id":3527,"date":"2021-10-22T02:41:19","date_gmt":"2021-10-21T15:41:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/?p=3527"},"modified":"2021-10-22T02:41:19","modified_gmt":"2021-10-21T15:41:19","slug":"environmental-downside-to-solar-and-wind-farms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/?p=3527","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Environmental downside\u2019 to solar and wind farms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&lt;iframe width=&#8221;804&#8243; height=&#8221;452&#8243; src=&#8221;https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/14yRxC0EJTA&#8221; title=&#8221;YouTube video player&#8221; frameborder=&#8221;0&#8243; allow=&#8221;accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture&#8221; allowfullscreen&gt;&lt;\/iframe&gt;<\/p>\n<p>NSW One Nation leader Mark Latham says there is an \u201cenvironmental downside\u201d to solar and wind farms.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBoth solar and wind farms eat up vast tracts of land, the wind farms have an environmental cost in destroying prime agricultural land, and destroying millions of birds around the world,\u201d Mr Latham told Sky News host Andrew Bolt.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe solar also has the problem \u2013 it goes into landfill, its materials leak into waterways, there\u2019s a problem with battery storage.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd this is rarely mentioned in the debate.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&lt;iframe width=&#8221;804&#8243; height=&#8221;452&#8243; src=&#8221;https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/14yRxC0EJTA&#8221; title=&#8221;YouTube video player&#8221; frameborder=&#8221;0&#8243; allow=&#8221;accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture&#8221; allowfullscreen&gt;&lt;\/iframe&gt; NSW One Nation leader Mark [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[217,632,742,1416,1681,456,269],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3527"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3527"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3527\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3528,"href":"http:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3527\/revisions\/3528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}