Washington to get heaps of wind turbines - Joe Hockey to freak

SSJoe's likely going to end up as the Ambassador in Washington. He's going to have to cover his eyes though as the mayor of Washington DC is going on a massive wind turbine build. SSJoe thinks they're a "blight on the landscape" of course.

"I drive to Canberra to go to Parliament, I drive myself and I must say I find those wind turbines around Lake George to be utterly offensive," he said. 

"I think they're just a blight on the landscape." 

Soon after, Mr Abbott famously joined the fray, declaring wind turbines to be ugly, noisy and potentially harmful to health. 

Mayor Bowser obviously doesn't understand. She's just signed a deal with a wind power company to supply 35 per cent of her powerful district's government buildings for the next 20 years, with a vow to take the share of renewable power to 50 per cent of her city's needs by 2032. 

The city has purchased 100 per cent of green power via renewable energy certificates since 2012, but now wants to lead the US in supplying itself directly from renewable industries. 

Washington will take the entire output of the 46-megawatt South Chestnut wind farm, its turbines scattered around three villages across the DC border in southern Pennsylvania. It's the largest wind power deal ever signed by an American city. Read more