Remember all those glowing stories about wind power outfits being welcomed into rural communities with open arms? You know, tales about how farmers are dying to have turbines lined up all over their properties? How locals can’t wait to pick up some of the thousands of permanent, high paying jobs on offer? How developers are … Continue reading Wind Industry Belting its ‘Message’ Home: Trustpower’s Thugs Assault 79-Year-Old Pensioner & Disabled Farmer
Author: stopthesethings
We are a group of citizens concerned about the rapid spread of industrial wind power generation installations across Australia.
Wind Farm Nuisance Case: Falmouth Zoning Board Orders Turbine Shutdown
**** Back in November 2013, we reported on the orders made by a Court in Falmouth, Massachusetts that pulled to a halt the operation of a couple of Vestas V82s that have been driving townspeople nuts, since they kicked into gear over 5 years ago (see our post here). We've also reported on Barry Funfar, … Continue reading Wind Farm Nuisance Case: Falmouth Zoning Board Orders Turbine Shutdown
US Wind Industry in Flat Panic: Report Confirms Turbines a ‘Human Health Hazard’
Back in October last year, we reported on the Brown County's Board of Health's declaration that Duke Energy’s Shirley Wisconsin Wind Development is a “Hazard to Human Health”: Board of Health Declares Wisconsin Wind Farm a “Human Health Hazard” Since then, for the wind industry, things have gone from bad to worse. Wisconsin ‘health hazard’ … Continue reading US Wind Industry in Flat Panic: Report Confirms Turbines a ‘Human Health Hazard’
Banks Baulk at Lending to Wind Power Outfits as Brits Slash Subsidies & Communities Fight Back
**** Our British counter-parts are on a roll. Since David Cameron’s thumping election win, wind power outfits in the UK have been copping a belting on all fronts. And the same is true across the ditch in the Emerald Isle. Furious communities from Armagh to Kerry; and John O'Groats to Cornwall are gathering strength and … Continue reading Banks Baulk at Lending to Wind Power Outfits as Brits Slash Subsidies & Communities Fight Back
French Revolt Against the Great Wind Power Fraud
**** The French have treated revolution as a National pastime, for much of their history: storming the Bastille in 1789; and the streets of Paris in 1969, to name a couple of people-power-hits. Today, the target of the seething masses is these things; or to the French: éoliennes. And - with a burning desire to … Continue reading French Revolt Against the Great Wind Power Fraud
Costly & Pointless Wind Power Subsidies Slammed by Australia’s National Party
**** When STT cranked into gear in December 2012, hammering the wind industry was a fairly lonely occupation: hardly fashionable; a bit like wearing yellow to a funeral, really. Back then, openly questioning the “wonders” of wind power was a guaranteed dinner party showstopper. Nervous hosts – choking on their organic pinot gris – would … Continue reading Costly & Pointless Wind Power Subsidies Slammed by Australia’s National Party
Vesta’s Ken McAlpine Forced to Apologise to Dr Sarah Laurie for …. well, just being ‘Ken’
**** In Australia, struggling Danish turbine maker, Vestas is in more trouble than Ned Kelly at Glenrowan. With construction of wind farms at a standstill; and the very few developers hoping to press on with projects, plumping for cheaper versions of these things - made in India and China, Vesta’s Australian adventure is little more … Continue reading Vesta’s Ken McAlpine Forced to Apologise to Dr Sarah Laurie for …. well, just being ‘Ken’
Pacific Hydro & Acciona’s Acoustic ‘Consultant’ Fakes ‘Compliance’ Reports for Non-Compliant Wind Farms
**** Victorian Senator - and STT Champion - John Madigan delivered the speech-of-a-lifetime in the Federal Senate this week, recorded in the video and Hansard (transcript) below. What John reveals is nothing short of criminal, as we detail later in the post. **** **** SENATE Hansard TUESDAY, 15 SEPTEMBER 2015 Senator MADIGAN: Firstly, I seek … Continue reading Pacific Hydro & Acciona’s Acoustic ‘Consultant’ Fakes ‘Compliance’ Reports for Non-Compliant Wind Farms
UK’s Wind Power Debacle to Dish Up Another ‘Winter of Discontent’
*** Electricity network in 'uncharted territory' as blackouts loom The Telegraph Andrew Critchlow 5 September 2015 As Britain loses one more power station, experts argue the grid has been left too exposed. Picture a cold and dark wintery evening in November and millions of householders across the country are switching on their kettles at the … Continue reading UK’s Wind Power Debacle to Dish Up Another ‘Winter of Discontent’
US Wind Industry Wilts as Wind Welfare Gets Slashed
The wind industry exists - and ONLY exists - for one single purpose: to wallow in a massive subsidy stream that - in order to keep this monstrous Ponzi scheme alive - will need to outlast religion. In Australia, the - already overflowing - wind power subsidy trough is designed to be refilled with $3 … Continue reading US Wind Industry Wilts as Wind Welfare Gets Slashed
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