Author: stopthesethings

We are a group of citizens concerned about the rapid spread of industrial wind power generation installations across Australia.

It’s a Fraud: The Wind Industry’s ‘Lies, Damned Lies and Statistics’ Exposed

American Pensmith, Mark Twain's quip about there being "three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics" fits neatly with the propaganda pedalled by the wind industry, its parasites and spruikers. This dissection of what America's Wind Energy Association dishes up on a daily basis is as good as it gets, in tearing away wind industry … Continue reading It’s a Fraud: The Wind Industry’s ‘Lies, Damned Lies and Statistics’ Exposed

Wind Industry Corruption in NSW: Planning Officer ‘Doctors’ Noise Impact Report to Get Project Approval

New South Wales is a hotbed of wind industry corruption, as Maurice Newman (the Business Adviser to former PM, Tony Abbott) laid plain during a recent interview with STT Champion, Alan Jones: Wind Industry Corruption in NSW: Maurice Newman Lifts the Lid Alan is back, this time with yet more detail on just how rotten … Continue reading Wind Industry Corruption in NSW: Planning Officer ‘Doctors’ Noise Impact Report to Get Project Approval

Ontario’s Wind Power Insanity Delivers Death Wish to Pilots

Is there anything to say in favour of these things? Not only insanely expensive and utterly pointless at every level, they pose a mortal danger to both man and beast. In the 20 years or so since they've spun into heavily subsidised 'action', the wind industry's has managed to clock up a fairly sizeable death … Continue reading Ontario’s Wind Power Insanity Delivers Death Wish to Pilots

Wind Industry Corruption: US Fish & Wildlife Push to Excuse Rampant Eagle Slaughter

**** The wind industry and its parasites have – from the outset – pitched these things as a “planet saving, clean, green and environmentally friendly technology”; which doesn’t quite gel with the wholesale slaughter of birds and bats. Let’s call it an “inconvenient truth” (see our post here). Were anyone caught shooting eagles or other … Continue reading Wind Industry Corruption: US Fish & Wildlife Push to Excuse Rampant Eagle Slaughter

Europe Squanders $1.2 Trillion on Wind/Solar Subsidies & Still CO2 Emissions Soar

If “saving” the planet is – as we are repeatedly told – all about reducing man-made emissions of an odourless, colourless, naturally occurring trace gas, essential for all life on earth – then European energy/environmental policy has manifestly failed. And what an expensive failure it is. In the following pieces, the delicious term 'irony' springs … Continue reading Europe Squanders $1.2 Trillion on Wind/Solar Subsidies & Still CO2 Emissions Soar

Australian Power Retailers Snub Wind & Turn to the Sun

STT has been pointing out for sometime now, the fact that Australia’s big 3 power retailers have been refusing to ‘play ball’ with beleaguered wind power cowboys, like near-bankrupt, Infigen and the union super fund backed disaster, Pacific Hydro. Commercial retailers have not entered any power purchase agreements with wind power outfits, since about November … Continue reading Australian Power Retailers Snub Wind & Turn to the Sun

PSST! Want to Make a Small Fortune? Throw a Large One at Wind Turbines

FAIL: Busted Wind Turbines Give College Whopping Negative 99.14% Return On Investment Watts up with that? Anthony Watts 27 April 2016 From the “it’s OK, we used other people’s money” department and Andrew Follet at The Daily Caller: *** Lake Land College recently announced plans to tear down broken wind turbines on campus, after the … Continue reading PSST! Want to Make a Small Fortune? Throw a Large One at Wind Turbines

Wind Turbine Terror: Collapses & Spontaneous Combustion

**** The number of cases involving collapsing turbines and flying blades (aka “component liberation”) has become so common that, if we were a tad cynical, we would go so far to suggest the possibility of some kind of pattern, along the lines proffered by Mr Bond’s nemesis, Goldfinger: “Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three … Continue reading Wind Turbine Terror: Collapses & Spontaneous Combustion

Labor to Throw $200bn to the Wind: Electricity Bill Shorten’s Economic Suicide Pact Unpacked

**** In the cutting British satire, Extras, the hapless Andy Millman (Ricky Gervais) is always foiled by his gormless but lovable side-kick, Maggie Jacobs (Ashley Jensen). Maggie, when she’s not inadvertently ruining Andy’s romantic hopes and/or acting career prospects, poses puzzling rhetoricals such as “would you rather be trampled by elephants or eaten by lions?” … Continue reading Labor to Throw $200bn to the Wind: Electricity Bill Shorten’s Economic Suicide Pact Unpacked

‘Follow the Money’: Hard-Hitting Danish Drama Documents Wind Industry Corruption, Australian Sequel Promised

STT has just gorged on two episodes of what is presented as well crafted drama, but which to STT followers will play out like a hard-hitting documentary. Australia’s SBS started screening ‘Follow the Money’ a couple of weeks ago, the plot-line for Episode 1 is described as follows: Mads, a police detective, is called out … Continue reading ‘Follow the Money’: Hard-Hitting Danish Drama Documents Wind Industry Corruption, Australian Sequel Promised