Since mid-October, some 128 people on the island of Oahu have been arrested while protesting a wind energy project being built near the small village of Kahuku... Of the many land-use conflicts that have erupted during the past decade over proposed renewable-energy projects, the protests at Kahuku are remarkable both for their duration and the number of people who have been arrested... [L]eaving... fuels in the ground will be difficult when so many people in so many places don’t want to live near projects that capture energy that’s above the ground... Choon James, a Kahuku resident who was arrested last month while protesting the wind project [said that] the people of Kahuku have “said over and over that we don’t want these turbines... I’m all for green energy. But environmental justice has to be a priority.”

... Put short, the proponents of all-renewable schemes are promoting the myth that there’s plenty of vacant land out there in flyover country that’s ready and waiting to be covered with renewable energy stuff. The truth is quite different and that truth is colliding with the facts — and the people — on the ground.