Question Earthority!

“It’s a contradiction between word and deed that has many local residents puzzled. In a city that has vowed to reduce its carbon emissions and a county that has made generating environmentally sustainable jobs a priority, generating wind energy in your backyard is nearly impossible now. A few people stop in each week at Architectural & Environmental Associates of Flagstaff to ask about installing a backyard wind turbine. Once Vice President Jason Campbell lays out the months-long paperwork delays, the $14,000 in total costs and the uncertainties about whether a homeowner is even allowed to install a wind turbine inside the county or city limits, most people decide against buying them, he said.” [offered as an example of zoning ordinances, etc., nationwide that make it difficult for individuals to voluntarily cut down their own negative environmental impacts — remember Al Gore’s ordeal getting permission to install solar panels on his home? - TLK]