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Mount St Helens latest pic

I'm going to make a lot of links to great pics I find on the web. Here's another one, taken from a PC-3 at 1,000 feet above Mount St Helens on 1st October:
(Dyslexia rules ok.) P-3C. . .

Mount St Helens emits plume

Click on the link above for a full view and details.

Professor Bellamy speak with forked tongue

Professor David Bellamy, the British naturalist, is coming to Victoria to speak out against the wind farm proposed for Bald Hills in South Gippsland. Bellamy has been a longstanding critic of wind farms and has led a worldwide crusade against their implementation.

At least, he has been a longstanding critic since 1989. Before then, he enthusiastically embraced them, as the Cambridge News Online points out:

"Wind power has quickly developed from being an outsider to being perhaps the most attractive alternative to traditional methods of electricity generation."

"There is reason to argue that wind power has its uses both on the large and the small scale."

"...for the large electricity generating organisations themselves, wind power can play a part in meeting our national electricity requirements alongside the other sources of production."

"Estimates do show that eventually wind power may be able to provide us with up to 20% of all our current energy demands - so things are looking promising."

"Power from the Wind", a video documentary produced in 1989 by the CEGB, Powergen and National Power, UK.