*** The parallels between Germany and South Australia are as uncanny as they are frightening. The common feature being, of course, their ludicrous attempt to rely on sunshine and breezes. Like South Australians, Germans went into wind power harder and faster than anyone else – and the cost of doing so is catching up with a vengeance. … Continue reading Massively Subsidised Wind Power Crushes Germany’s Biggest Power Provider as CO2 Emissions Soar
Author: stopthesethings
We are a group of citizens concerned about the rapid spread of industrial wind power generation installations across Australia.
Liberal Senator Chris Back: ‘No More Subsidies to Intermittent and Unreliable Wind Power – a Proven Failure’
In the week just gone, the wind-cult assembled in Adelaide to hug model wind turbines and chant Kumbaya - in an apparent effort to ward off the gathering evil spirits that now beset their beloved deity. Adelaide - the sleepy country town that passes as the capital of economic basket case South Australia - hosted … Continue reading Liberal Senator Chris Back: ‘No More Subsidies to Intermittent and Unreliable Wind Power – a Proven Failure’
Delingpole: Ding Dong DECCs is Dead – UK’s Economy Saving Renewables Retreat
*** Britain’s New Prime Minister Drives A Stake Through The Heart Of The Green Vampire Breitbart James Delingpole 14 July 2016 Official: Britain no longer has“the greenest government ever.” Incoming Prime Minister Theresa May has driven a stake through the heart of her predecessor David Cameron’s fluffy, faux-Conservative project by scrapping the Department of Energy … Continue reading Delingpole: Ding Dong DECCs is Dead – UK’s Economy Saving Renewables Retreat
Brits Slash Subsidies to Wind Power as South Australia’s ‘Green Dream’ Turns Nightmare
*** STT followers might be wondering at our present obsession with South Australia’s wind powered, energy calamity. However, we haven’t forgotten about the rest of the world. Our focus, we think, is justified; as South Australia stands as the perfect and inevitable example of what happens when you try to run an economy on sunshine … Continue reading Brits Slash Subsidies to Wind Power as South Australia’s ‘Green Dream’ Turns Nightmare
SA’s Labor Goverment Ignored Warnings on its Wind Power Pricing & Supply Disaster
Hoping to avoid the predictable consequences of one's own actions is simple ignorance; and forgivable. However, deliberately ignoring measured warnings from others, when the consequences of those wilful actions will destroy hundreds of businesses; kill off thousands of jobs; result in thousands being deprived of power and tens of thousands more struggling to pay their … Continue reading SA’s Labor Goverment Ignored Warnings on its Wind Power Pricing & Supply Disaster
No Salvation: South Australian Businesses Being Crushed by Wind Power Costs
Arrium Steel's Gerard Mahoney: SA's power play the last roll of the dice. *** South Australia’s unfolding energy calamity, has drawn all sorts of self-professed experts out of the woodwork; desk-bound boffins, who all seem to have ready-made answers to SA’s self-inflicted power supply and pricing disaster. However, most of their “solutions” involve spending hundreds … Continue reading No Salvation: South Australian Businesses Being Crushed by Wind Power Costs
Wisconsin Study: Subsidised Wind Power a Certified Job Killer
South Australia isn't the only place in the world where subsidised, intermittent and wholly unreliable wind power has become a proven social and economic disaster. Oh no. The inevitable consequences of trying to run an economy on the whims of the weather are universal. In this very detailed study from Wisconsin - based on actual … Continue reading Wisconsin Study: Subsidised Wind Power a Certified Job Killer
South Australia’s Wind Power Disaster Kills BHP’s Plans to Expand Olympic Dam Mine
BHP started life in 1885 as the brainchild of station hands and boundary riders on Mount Gipps station in western New South Wales. The town that sprung up around their find of one of the largest lead, silver and zinc deposits in the world, Broken Hill, shares the name with the company, ‘Broken Hill Proprietary’. … Continue reading South Australia’s Wind Power Disaster Kills BHP’s Plans to Expand Olympic Dam Mine
South Australia’s Wind Powered Train Wreck: SA’s Business Leaders Warn Other States – ‘It’s Your Turn Next’
Only the Germans could come up with a single word to capture the churlish sentiment of feeling a sense of malicious glee at another’s downfall. However, to STT the gleeful component of ‘schadenfreude’ is tempered with the realisation that there is no escape for any Australian from the debacle, in which South Australians now find … Continue reading South Australia’s Wind Powered Train Wreck: SA’s Business Leaders Warn Other States – ‘It’s Your Turn Next’
With the Lessons from SA’s Wind Power Disaster Nothing Justifies the Endless Acoustic Torture of Wind Farm Victims
The wind industry in Australia today is in a state of constant hysteria. The events that have culminated in South Australia’s electricity supply and pricing calamity have thrown a spotlight on wind power, with public sentiment shifting from benign indifference to outright hostility (readers of The Australian’s online stories will find hundreds of comments from … Continue reading With the Lessons from SA’s Wind Power Disaster Nothing Justifies the Endless Acoustic Torture of Wind Farm Victims
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