A renewable energy plant in Northumberland, England is planned for construction. However, it has drawn opposition from environmentalists and local residents. According to the UK Chronicle, what is unique about this is that the proposed plant would be a complex would have [T]wo 500kw generators would give a total power output of 1MW from the plant, while the digested material would be reused on farmland as a fertiliser. The facility itself would be an anaerobic digestion and combined heat and power plant facility on land near Fourstones, close to Hexham in Northumberland – just one kilometre from the World Heritage Site.

What is unique about this instance is that an environmentalist group named Campaign to Protect Rural England is opposed to this complex yet environmentalists talk up renewable energy (like what this complex would be built to deliver) as an alternative to fossil fuels. Instead, environmentalists have lined up with the opposition to halt its construction.

This isn’t the only incident either. In New York an environmentalist group named Riverkeeper is suing to block a power plant from opening that is powered by natural gas and located on the Hudson River. The group claims not enough research was done on the part of regulators when they approved the plant to open.

In Loch Ness, Scotland an environmentalist group is opposed to the construction of a wind power facility. The group alleges due to the quantity of stone needed for the wind farm and the turbines themselves are a prescription for ecological disaster.

Environmentalists propose alternatives to fossil fuels which they claim will reduce carbon emissions and prevent global warming. Then a green group sprouts up to oppose construction. The reason for this is simple. The environmentalist movement is not about protecting nature but is anti-industry and would prefer people to live in conditions compatible to pre-historic or pre-colonial days. Environmentalism is about telling other people how to live and using preserving nature as the excuse to do so.