**** Ian “Macca” Macfarlane and his youthful ward, Greg Hunt are the flies in the Coalition’s political ointment, when it comes to engineering anything like a sensible policy on energy. Both Macfarlane’s and Hunt’s offices are filled with wind industry plants and stooges, like Hunt's senior adviser, Patrick Gibbons. Patrick is best mates with Vesta’s … Continue reading Greg Hunt’s “Game” of Hide and Seek: or how Australia’s most notorious wind power outfit – Infigen – hijacked Australian Energy Policy
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We are a group of citizens concerned about the rapid spread of industrial wind power generation installations across Australia.
Unwilling Turbine Hosts Set to Revolt, as NSW Planning Minister – Pru Goward – Slams Spanish Fan Plans at Yass
**** Planning Minister, Pru Goward has just slammed the bag on Spanish backed wind-scammer, Epuron’s plans to carpet the rolling hills west of Yass, on the New South Wales tablelands, with giant fans. Epuron’s plans for the Yass Valley Wind farm go way back to 2009 and, had it ever got off the ground, would … Continue reading Unwilling Turbine Hosts Set to Revolt, as NSW Planning Minister – Pru Goward – Slams Spanish Fan Plans at Yass
More on Germany’s Wind Power Fiasco
**** The Germans went into wind power harder and faster than anyone else – and the cost of doing so is catching up with a vengeance. The subsidies have been colossal, the impacts on the electricity market chaotic and – contrary to the environmental purpose of the policy – CO2 emissions are rising fast: if … Continue reading More on Germany’s Wind Power Fiasco
Low-Frequency Wind Turbine Noise: a Recipe for Unhappy Mothers and Unhealthy Babies
Noise is always and everywhere a public health issue. Last year, in a piece looking at the importance of silence to healthy, happy communities, The Economist, quoting Poppy Elliot from the Noise Abatement Society, wrote that: [A] quiet environment is necessary to enable people to fulfil their intellectual and creative potential. She points to a … Continue reading Low-Frequency Wind Turbine Noise: a Recipe for Unhappy Mothers and Unhealthy Babies
US Wind Farm Operator Settles to Shut Down Neighbours’ Dynamite Damages Case
**** A telling-scene there, from the film A Civil Action; which is pretty much how things panned out for a US wind farm operator in Michigan recently. STT has been following a monumental piece of litigation that blew up over the Lake Winds wind farm in Mason County, for a while now (see our posts … Continue reading US Wind Farm Operator Settles to Shut Down Neighbours’ Dynamite Damages Case
Wind Turbines Totally Suck, When the Wind Really Blows & When It Doesn’t
**** When the wind is “the thing”, that’s supposed to be your business - when it’s what makes the revenue (or, rather a massive pile of taxpayer and power consumer subsidies) flow - it seems a bit rich for wind power outfits to start whining about there being too much or too little. **** But, … Continue reading Wind Turbines Totally Suck, When the Wind Really Blows & When It Doesn’t
Wind Power Goes AWOL Right When Freezing Brits Need It Most
**** The hackneyed myth that wind power "powers" millions of homes with wonderful "free" wind energy is taking a beating around the globe (see our post here). The idea that a wholly weather dependent power generation source can ever be - as is touted endlessly by the wind industry and its parasites - an "alternative" … Continue reading Wind Power Goes AWOL Right When Freezing Brits Need It Most
A Fine Irish Take on the Great Wind Power Fraud
Five reasons why it is folly to adopt wind power as an energy source The Irish Examiner 23 January 2015 While the arguments for wind power seem straightforward and compelling, Wind power would reduce our dependency on foreign oil, wind power is clean and would allow for the shut down of dirty fossil fuel fired … Continue reading A Fine Irish Take on the Great Wind Power Fraud
David Mortimer, Turbine Host: An “Inconvenient” Wind Industry Fact
**** With Steven Cooper's Cape Bridgewater study sending shock-waves through the wind industry around the world (see our posts here and here and here), the wind industry - always prickly when it comes to fronting up to "inconvenient" facts (see our post here) - is more defensive than ever. In Australia, one long-running "inconvenience" for … Continue reading David Mortimer, Turbine Host: An “Inconvenient” Wind Industry Fact
2 Year Old Siemens Turbines Falling Apart: Wind Farm Investors, Get Out While You Can
These days, the spontaneous combustion of wind turbines is an occurrence so common that STT is thinking about opening a sub-branch that deals exclusively with their terrifying pyrotechnic-melt-downs. Giant fan conflagrations are 10 times more common than the wind industry and its parasites will ever admit (see our post here). And these unscheduled fireworks shows … Continue reading 2 Year Old Siemens Turbines Falling Apart: Wind Farm Investors, Get Out While You Can
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