VIEWS ON WIND POWER DEPEND ON THE LEVEL OF KNOWLEDGE OF THE COMPLEX ISSUE. Wind power is a complex issue involving many areas. Science, law, environment, animals and nature, economy, fiscal planning, energy systems, health, quality of life, democracy, human rights, etc. The technical ability of wind turbines to generate electrical energy is intermittent, which means that a backup system is required. Maintenance, lifespan, waste management, dismantling, and restoration of the area are even more complex issues. Large land areas are used and extensive new transmission lines are needed to connect to the national grid.

Wind power is often hailed as "green and renewable", but international voices, including politicians and academics, have also questioned it. Their well-founded arguments show another side. They highlight the consequences of the multifaceted negative environmental impacts of the wind power industry - on people, habitats, the environment, the economy, and the local climate. Decisions on wind power are often made at a desk far away from reality and the people who will be affected.

The imbalance in the permission process between the developer and the local people and communities is significant. The wind energy company has in-depth knowledge of the permit process and considerable financial resources to carry out the project. In-depth insight into how various conditions in the environmental permit affect the profitability of the development, and how the conditions should be designed to make effective transparency impossible. The developer's ability to reformulate the conditions to suit his interests is considerable. Marketing can best be described by the modern concept of "gaslighting".

None of this is available to the local population who are expected to live in the new industrial zone created by the erection of wind turbines. The authorities responsible for research and regulatory compliance, have been instructed by the government to promote wind power development. Large research grants have been awarded, but research aimed at investigating the negative aspects of wind power is conspicuous by its absence.

In the case of wind energy industries, the permitting process is characterized by the 'public interest in wind energy', which is considered superior not only to environmental interests and scientific arguments but also to our democratic and human rights. The wind power industry is financed in various ways through taxpayers' "green funds" and "green guarantees". These are huge investments made with public funds in a technology based on limited and one-sided research and without knowledge of the long-term effects on the environment and our energy supply. One of the biggest infrastructure projects of all time is being carried out without the consensus of the people.

The wind power lobby has established a close relationship with politicians. In symbiosis with politicians, the industry's business interests have developed a system that in practice is a purely planned economy. In the USA, the EU, the UK, Norway, and Turkey, billions of dollars are planned for wind power projects in the coming years. The wind power lobby is working strategically to expand wind power on land, and especially at sea. This will be at the expense of people and the environment. Unimaginable economic values will be redistributed at an increasingly rapid pace.