i believe you're correct with regard to continental Yurp, but for sure the arguments of subsidies, intermittence, ugliness were very present in the orchestrated Country Guardian campaign in England going back nearly two decades. Some of the memes seem to have taken hold here on the continent now, though they were present in the past elsewhere (like France) to some degree as well.

Did the article leave out the bird straw dog?

The anti-wind propaganda campaign is orchestrated now precisely because in several key markets, wind has achieved "critical mass"  ;-)  as an industry, as an employer, and as an export model. And as a reliable generator of electricity.

"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage." - Anaïs Nin