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Quotes – wind

“Wind Power Could Generate More Than Enough Sustainable Electricity to Meet Global Energy Needs”
Sustainable Energy Coalition

“The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind, The answer is blowin' in the wind”
Bob Dylan

“The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.”
William Arthur Ward quotes

"What fates impose, that men must needs abide; It boots not to resist both wind and tide"
William Shakespeare

Quotes – water
"Everyone understands that water is essential to life. But many are only just now beginning to grasp how essential it is to everything in life – food, energy, transportation, nature, leisure, identity, culture, social norms, and virtually all the products used on a daily basis."

World Business Council for Sustainable Development

"Thousands have lived without love, not one without water."
W.H. Auden

Sometimes it pauses, to lay up a store
of liquid wealth in lake and reservoir,
Then leaps a dam and hastens on again,
Turning a wheel to light the homes of men.
Taken from "The River Speaks" by Gene Lindberg 1933

Quotes - nuclear

“Environmentalists have long been fond of saying that the sun is the only safe nuclear reactor, situated as it is some ninety-three million miles away.”
Stephanie Mills – singer

“A nuclear power plant is infinitely safer than eating, because 300 people choke to death on food every year.”
Dixie Lee Ray

Quotes – Oil

"Esso, Shell and BP are sending our climate up in smoke,........... Esso and its parent company ExxonMobil, in particular, are sabotaging climate protection."
Karsten Smid, climate expert with Greenpeace

“The use of solar energy has not been opened up because the oil industry does not own the sun.”
Ralph Nader, American activist & lawyer

Quotes - Powerlines

In 2005, the Department of Health funded Draper Report found that children who lived within 200 metres of high voltage lines had a 70% higher risk of developing leukaemia than those who lived more than 600 metres away.

Quotes - Coal

“This island is made mainly of coal and surrounded by fish. Only an organising genius could produce a shortage of coal and fish at the same time.”
- Aneurin Bevan

Quotes - Power stations
"Drax is already the single biggest source of CO2 pollution in the UK, pumping out 22.7 million tonnes each year."
Greenpeace

“We now have a good wholesale business in the UK with big industrial customers and power stations. We are aiming to secure 20% of the market by 2015.”
Alexander Medvedev - Deputy Chairman of the Board of Executive Directors of Russian energy company Gazprom

Quotes - Oilseed Rape – biomass fuel

“...We believe that this study has clearly demonstrated that oilseed rape induces symptoms in a significant proportion of otherwise healthy individuals.”

Scottish Medical Journal. 1995