The death of the wind industry didn’t come about because BIG Coal felt ‘threatened‘ and set out in some kind of John Grisham conspiracy to wreck it by fair means or foul. No. What kills it is the fact that a growing band of ‘eco-travellers’ – of the kind who once placed their faith in … Continue reading ‘Green’ Epiphany: Environmentalists Join Fight Against the Great Wind Power Fraud
Author: stopthesethings
Wind Power: The Greatest Swindle Ever Known
Australia is in election mode, with the battle for Federal political supremacy being won and lost on television and on the airwaves. The one broadcaster a political hopeful doesn't want off-side is 2GB's Alan Jones. AJ's followers number in the millions across 77 stations across the Country. Last week, Alan picked up on the cost … Continue reading Wind Power: The Greatest Swindle Ever Known
Former Labor Treasurer – Keith De Lacy: ‘Wind Power Simply Don’t Work – Not Here, Not Anywhere’
Electricity Bill Shorten: Existential Threat to Workers & the Poor. **** As Australians contemplate which box to tick in this coming Saturday’s Federal election, STT thinks it’s time to pause and consider the potential consequences of those actions. Once upon a time, the Australian Labor Party could rightly call itself “the workers’ party”. The ALP … Continue reading Former Labor Treasurer – Keith De Lacy: ‘Wind Power Simply Don’t Work – Not Here, Not Anywhere’
Wind Farms: A Guarantee of Hatred & Community Division
*** The following pieces - the first from Lancashire, England, the second from Charlotte, upstate New York - are permeated with a sense of seething rage. While the wind industry, its parasites and spruikers still attempt the line that rural communities are falling over themselves to get in on some wind farm action, as usual, … Continue reading Wind Farms: A Guarantee of Hatred & Community Division
Africa’s Wind Power Scandal: Vestas Uses Tribal Rivalry to Steal Kenyan Farmland
**** Having watched five episodes of Danish docu-drama Follow the Money, STT is certain that the wind scamming outfit under investigation for investor fraud, Energreen, was modelled on Vestas. Just like Energreen, Vestas has infiltrated every level of social and political life in Denmark; and just like Energreen has been the subject of criminal investigations, … Continue reading Africa’s Wind Power Scandal: Vestas Uses Tribal Rivalry to Steal Kenyan Farmland
Poles Apart: New Turbine Setback Rules Threaten Doom for Polish Wind Industry
Over-run by these things, faced with thousand of furious neighbours demanding an end to the onslaught, and spiralling power costs, Poland has mounted an enormous about face: where the wind industry was the flavour of the month for a year or two, it’s just been hit with the first salvo in an effort to give … Continue reading Poles Apart: New Turbine Setback Rules Threaten Doom for Polish Wind Industry
Wind Turbine Noise Terrorising Whales
Once upon a time, 'Save the Whales' was a mantra swiped onto T-Shirts and bumper stickers by environmentalists to exhibit their moral righteousness. Now, as signed up members of the wind-cult, the hemp-shirt and nose ring squad have a tiny hypocritical dilemma on their hands. The wholesale slaughter of birds and bats has been quickly … Continue reading Wind Turbine Noise Terrorising Whales
Lessons from Denmark: Danes Slash Wind Power Subsidies to Salvage Economy
The wind industry is mounted on myth and fuelled by fantasy. In Australia, its parasites and spruikers must believe that we are still cut off from the known world (suffering from what was referred to as the “tyranny of distance”) when they peddle stories about Europeans still being wedded to wind power. On that score, … Continue reading Lessons from Denmark: Danes Slash Wind Power Subsidies to Salvage Economy
South Australians Locked in Wind Power Price Disaster: Retail Prices Jump Another 12%
*** South Australia is an economic basket case, thanks, in no small part, to its obsession with wind power. Power prices are spiralling out of control. Back in March SA’s businesses were belted with a 90% hike in their bills, that left manufacturers, miners and other power hungry businesses reeling: Wind Power Costs Crushing South … Continue reading South Australians Locked in Wind Power Price Disaster: Retail Prices Jump Another 12%
Wind Industry Makes Absurd Claim that Wind Power Lowers Retail Power Prices
The latest wind industry wheeze is to turn black into white, by claiming that occasionally adding wind power to an electricity grid (weather permitting, of course) lowers retail power prices. Here’s Alan Moran unpacking the latest furphy. Black is white: and wind generators drive down electricity prices, too … Catallaxy Files Alan Moran 8 June … Continue reading Wind Industry Makes Absurd Claim that Wind Power Lowers Retail Power Prices