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Rank hypocrisy comes in all shapes and sizes, but the kind that attends the renewable energy zealot is an altogether different species.

The wind power acolyte is always ready to spear hundreds of giant 240m (787ft) high industrial wind turbines into your backyard, but hits the apoplexy button if the ‘favour’ looks likely to be returned. Destroying your patch of paradise is a sacrifice that he or she is always willing to make.

When former Greens leader, Dr Bob Brown started railing about the prospect of a few of these things being planted in the North-West of his home State, Tasmania, the cry of ‘monstrous hypocrite’ could be heard far and wide. But in the green hypocrisy Olympics, Dr Bob is far from alone.

There’s an evident relationship between where the wind industry’s most vocal opponents reside and the prospect that they’ll ever be forced to suffer life in their…