Wind Power Outfit Ordered to Remove its Turbines from Stolen Land

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In the wind industry, it’s better to ask for forgiveness than permission.

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The goons that people the wind industry are low – to be sure. This is an industry devoid of any moral compass or human empathy, and always quick to ride roughshod over the living:

The Wind Industry’s Latest “Killing Fields”: Africans Just “Dying” to “Save the Planet”

Farmer’s Fiery Suicide Attempt Follows Land Theft by Wind Power Outfit

And the dead:

Wind Power Outfits – Thugs and Bullies the World Over

The Wind Industry Knows No Shame: Turbines to Desecrate the Unknown Graves of Thousands of Australian Soldiers in France

A few posts back, we ran a story in which these boys were shown to have outdone themselves, as a bunch of mean-spirited, violent, racist thugs – that would have given the Mississippi Klansmen of old, a solid run for their money. Instead of burning crosses or blowing up Baptist Churches full of African American worshippers, these wind industry red-necks deliberatey destroyed a black family’s desert holiday home, simply because their property stood in the way of their plans to wallow in the PTC subsidy cesspool.

Black American Family Sues Wind Power Outfit for Wantonly Bulldozing their Home

In Kenya and India, wind power outfits have simply helped themselves to land owned by local farmers. In the former case, the riot provoked by the wind power outfit’s blatant land theft ended with a young Kenyan farmer being shot to death; in the latter, the farmer made a statement of desperation by trying to incinerate himself on the steps of the local police station.

In only the latest wind industry outrage – once again in India – the thugs involved have been ordered to remove their fans from tribal land. Although, this time it seems that the authorities went after the miscreants not so much due to their willingness to help themselves to other peoples’ land, but because they were just a bit too shy about stumping up with their revenue commitments.

The story has been plodding along for a couple of years now, at the centre of which is none other than Indian fan maker, Suzlon – aka Senvion (of CERES fame), aka Suzlon REPower (responsible for the Cape Bridgewater disaster).

Suzlon is not only responsible for the worst designed and built turbine ever, the S88 (see our posts here and here), for years now, it’s been the meanness and muscle that stole tribal land and then bullied and bribed its way to cover up the theft:

Suzlon – sets new benchmark for managing “community outrage”

Now, here’s the latest on Suzlon’s skulduggery.

Windmill firms told to remove towers
The Hindu
K.A. Shaji
28 May 2015

The controversy over installing windmills by usurping tribal land at Attappady about a decade ago took a new turn on Tuesday with the Sholayur grama panchayat directing owners of 23 wind power units located in its jurisdiction to stop generating power and remove the towers with immediate effect.

The move is in response to the Accountant General (AG)’s query why no tax was collected from the controversial units, which continue to feed the generated power to the grid of the Kerala State Electricity Board (KSEB).

No tax paid

Panchayat secretary Nithin Kailas told The Hindu that all the windmill towers had been installed without permission from the local body. No tax was paid to the government since they were set up. As per rules, each wind power generating unit had to pay Rs.70,000 as annual tax. As each unit occupied 120 sq m, they would have to pay land tax too.

Tribal land encroachment by the wind power companies was one of the key campaign issues of the ruling United Democratic Front (UDF) in the last Assembly elections, but the dispute over the alienation of 85.21 acres of tribal land remains unresolved.

Though four years have elapsed since the then Palakkad District Collector K.V. Mohankumar discovered the role of some government officials in fabricating documents and a committee headed by the Chief Secretary recommended reclamation of the land and disciplinary action against the officials, the UDF government has not taken any steps to restore the land to the tribespeople.

The AG’s order has now prompted the local body to take action. According to official documents accessed by The Hindu , the 85.21 acres of land was part of the 374.48 acres that Sarjan Realities Ltd., a subsidiary of Suzlon, had acquired at Attappady where Suzlon Energy had installed 31 windmills.

The windmills were later sold to some film personalities and entrepreneurs. Among the 31 windmills, those coming under the Sholayur panchayat are now facing action.

Following protests by the UDF in the wake of the findings of the Chief Secretary, the then Electricity Minister A.K. Balan had admitted that the windmill companies had encroached on tribal and forestland at Kottathara, Sholayur, and Agali villages.

The Integrated Tribal Development Project Officer of Attappady also submitted reports confirming the encroachment. The Collector suggested a comprehensive inquiry.

No action by UDF

“Top UDF leaders reached Nallasinka in Attappady in July 2010 to lead an agitation demanding reclamation of the tribal land. They later led a delegation of tribesmen to Delhi and met Congress president Sonia Gandhi and vice president Rahul Gandhi for their intervention,” says M. Sukumaran, convener, Attappady Samrakshana Samithi. But nothing happened even after the UDF came to power.

Though the government had suspended four government officials and three officials of the Attappady Hill Area Development Society in connection with the case, all of them returned to service later, he said.
The Hindu

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Suzlon says to hell with respect for property rights & paying taxes.

4 thoughts on “Wind Power Outfit Ordered to Remove its Turbines from Stolen Land

  1. Everywhere and everyone in some way has claims to rights over land. The problem is those rights mean nothing to those who promise the most and deliver the least (free loaders) – those who believe those rights belong to them alone. To do what they will with, and have the money to secure the backing of those who are willing to put a hand out to collect the morsels that fall their way to turn a ‘blind eye’. And/or to assist the free loaders to destroy lives and livelihoods so they can get even more money.

    Until these free loaders are turned out into the ‘cold’ to fend for themselves, their grab for what doesn’t belong to them will never end.

    1. Jackie, your cleverly crafted comment really sums up the Industrial Wind Turbine developers & politicians in Australia.

  2. Suzlon, Vestas, Siemens, Acciona, the list goes on. Corporate brands synonymous with abusing human rights around the world.

    Societies are judged by the way they treat the most disadvantaged. Wind corporations can be judged on how they mistreat societies to their advantage.

    An independant Judicial Inquiry is long overdue to begin to right this terrible injustice.

  3. Australia industrial wind turbine developments have no requirement for ‘due diligence’ on land title at any level of government. Governments, local, state and federal, deliberately ignore Allodial Title. The only title they consider is Torrens title and Radical/Crown title but there is no reference to title search in the development requirements.

    Allodium cannot be extinguished. It can be sold, exchanged (like the American Indians exchanged Long Island NY for blankets and beads), it can be bequeathed and in the event of war, it can be negotiated in a treaty, but NOT extinguished.

    War has not been declared on the Allodial People on this continent, therefore there has been not treaty let alone surrender. As such, the “nemo dat” rule applies. Nemo dat quod non habet means you can only pass on the title you have acquired.

    Ironically, when the Germans lost WWII, none of them lost their land .. the Japanese still enjoy their land title too!

    Allodial entitlement is to everything below the ground to the core of the earth and everything above the earth to the stars. The Crown’s radical title is burdened by allodium in this land that has never been surrendered. Therefore the Crown’s radical title is void ab initio (void from the beginning). The Crown cannot produce the required evidence of having acquired the land. All Australian land buyers acquire Torrens title from the Crown’s radical title. As such, Torrens title is the title of a thief.

    As no industrial wind turbine development in Australia has approval from the owners of the allodium, all of their developments are illegal and should be shut down and demolished immediately. No questions asked!

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