**** In Australia's wind farm capital, South Australia the terms ‘chaos’ and ‘crisis’ are used to describe the aftermath of an energy policy ‘designed’ on desktops by dimwits, who haven’t got the faintest clue about how power generation works (or much else, for that matter). Wind power collapses and blackouts are now part of South … Continue reading Wind Power Disaster: South Australians Grapple with Rocketing Power Prices, an Unstable Grid & Rolling Blackouts
Author: stopthesethings
We are a group of citizens concerned about the rapid spread of industrial wind power generation installations across Australia.
Wind Industry Still Wailing About ‘Uncertainty’ as Construction Finance ‘Drought’ Hits
Wind power outfits have now cottoned on to the fact (slow learners that they are) that Australia’s big power retailers have turned their backs on the wind to face the Sun, instead. The former second-hand car salesmen that front the wind industry are still coming to grips with the recalcitrance of commercial retailers (we don’t … Continue reading Wind Industry Still Wailing About ‘Uncertainty’ as Construction Finance ‘Drought’ Hits
Wind Power is a Perpetual Loser: Wherever These Things Get Planted
A little while back, the usual response from those opposed to wind farms was along the lines of: “we’re all in favour of renewable energy, so long as wind farms are built in the right place”. But that was before people understood the phenomenal cost of the subsidies directed at wind power through the mandatory … Continue reading Wind Power is a Perpetual Loser: Wherever These Things Get Planted
Governments Lying About Wind Turbine Noise: Ignorance No Defence to Claims Worth $Millions
**** As the number of cases launched against wind power outfits and the landholders who 'host' these things takes off, the government agencies that continue to run the wind industry line that the incessant turbine generated low-frequency noise and infrasound and the sleep deprivation it causes is all in the victims' heads (a former tobacco … Continue reading Governments Lying About Wind Turbine Noise: Ignorance No Defence to Claims Worth $Millions
Could the Wind Industry Get Any More Ridiculous?!?!
Sometimes, a picture is worth more than a thousand words: it's 'priceless'! Saturday Silliness – wind turbine photo of the year WattsUpWithThat Anthony Watts 23 January 2016 The entire rationale for wind turbines is to stop global warming by reducing the amount of CO2 being returned to the atmosphere from the burning of fossil fuels. … Continue reading Could the Wind Industry Get Any More Ridiculous?!?!
German Opposition to Wind Farms Spawns New Political Party
Remember all the guff about Germans loving wind power to bits? And stories about how Germany is the wind power pioneer, and that its cheerful rural volk are 100% behind having thousands of these things speared all over their bucolic homeland? No? We've forgotten them too. German wind farm neighbours suffer from incessant turbine generated … Continue reading German Opposition to Wind Farms Spawns New Political Party
Bjørn Lomborg: Why Africa Needs Fossil Fuels, Not Wind Power & Wishes
**** Why Africa Needs Fossil Fuels Project Syndicate Bjørn Lomborg 22 January 2016 SANTIAGO – Africa is the world’s most “renewable” continent when it comes to energy. In the rich world, renewables account for less than a tenth of total energy supplies. The 900 million people of Sub-Saharan Africa (excluding South Africa) get 80% of their … Continue reading Bjørn Lomborg: Why Africa Needs Fossil Fuels, Not Wind Power & Wishes
Mexican Wind Farm Madness: Wind Industry Crime & Corruption Crush an Ancient Culture
*** Renata Bessi is a freelance journalist and contributor the Americas Program and Desinformémonos. She has published articles in Brazilian media: The Trecheiro newspaper magazine, Página 22, Repórter Brasil, Rede Brasil Atual, Brasil de Fato, Outras Palavras. Santiago Navarro is an economist, a freelance journalist, photographer and contributor to the Americas Program, Desinformémonos and SubVersiones. Together they … Continue reading Mexican Wind Farm Madness: Wind Industry Crime & Corruption Crush an Ancient Culture
Wind Industry Loses Support of Lunatic Fringe: Green-Left Blog ‘New Matilda’ Turns Against the Wind Power Fraud
**** When the following piece crossed STT’s inbox, the editor thought it to be some kind of April fool’s joke, delivered a few months early. But, no. Knock us down with a feather, the article that follows did, in fact, appear on ‘New Matilda’ - a politically correct, hard-‘green’-left bastion for all things cuddly and … Continue reading Wind Industry Loses Support of Lunatic Fringe: Green-Left Blog ‘New Matilda’ Turns Against the Wind Power Fraud
SA Wind Farm War: AFL CEO – Gillon McLachlan – Launches Litigation Against NZ’s Trustpower
**** New Zealand’s Trustpower love throwing their weight around – provided the targets of their violence and thuggery are 79 Year Old Pensioners and Disabled Farmers. Now, these delightful characters have a real fight on their hands. Gillon McLachlan is as well-heeled as he is passionate about his beloved property, Rosebank - the magnificent range … Continue reading SA Wind Farm War: AFL CEO – Gillon McLachlan – Launches Litigation Against NZ’s Trustpower
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