Author: stopthesethings

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

Ohio Joins Global Effort to Slam the Door on Big Wind

Around the world, rural communities are fighting back hard against the great wind power fraud. Wherever wind farms have appeared – or have been threatened – big numbers of locals take a set against the monsters being speared into their previously peaceful – and often idyllic – rural communities. Their anger extends to the goons … Continue reading Ohio Joins Global Effort to Slam the Door on Big Wind

Germany’s Wind Power Disaster: An Economic & Environmental Failure

**** 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 Germany’s Wind Power Disaster: An Economic & Environmental Failure

BUSHFIRE RED ALERT: Wind Power Really Is Setting the World on FIRE

As the Australian countryside turns to the golden hues of summer, the attentions of its farming and rural communities also turn: hundreds of eager eyes become fixed on the horizon for tell-tale signs of the smoke that heralds the bushfires that cast fear amongst those that live and work in the bush. Rules are set … Continue reading BUSHFIRE RED ALERT: Wind Power Really Is Setting the World on FIRE

Institute for Energy Research Takes the Scalpel to the Great Wind Power Fraud

As time goes by, the number of crack energy market experts joining the effort to bring the great wind power fraud to its inevitable denouement – and the quality of their work directed at that fine and noble task – has increased exponentially. The American "Institute for Energy Research" has just released a brilliant piece … Continue reading Institute for Energy Research Takes the Scalpel to the Great Wind Power Fraud

Casualties of South Australia’s Wind Power Debacle Mount: Thousands Can’t Afford Power

**** The new protectionism: renewable energy industry’s shameless self-promotion Catallaxy Files Alan Moran 5 December 2014 According to Christopher Flavin, the President emeritus of the Worldwatch Institute, in a few years’ time wind energy will not need to be subsidised. Oh wait! He said that back in 1984. And he was not alone, Booz, Allen … Continue reading Casualties of South Australia’s Wind Power Debacle Mount: Thousands Can’t Afford Power

Senator Matt Canavan: Australia’s RET Policy: “Robin Hood visits Bizarro World”

**** Labor’s energy policy nothing but wind The Australian Matt Canavan 4 December 2014 GEORGE Orwell once said that political language was designed to “give an appearance of solidity to pure wind”. Step forward exhibit A and the Labor Party’s explanation for refusing to fix the mess that is Australian renewable energy policy. Mark Butler … Continue reading Senator Matt Canavan: Australia’s RET Policy: “Robin Hood visits Bizarro World”

The Guardian Caught Out Pumping Dale Vince’s Bogus Wind Power Propaganda

**** The Guardian (both in its home territory, the UK and in its doppelganger Australian version) is the ecofacists’ megaphone – and is duly lapped up with relish by the intellectual pygmies of the hard-‘green’-left or – as James Delingpole aptly dubbed them; “greentards”. Both here and in the UK, The Guardian has been the … Continue reading The Guardian Caught Out Pumping Dale Vince’s Bogus Wind Power Propaganda

UK Plan to Ban Noisy Wind Farms

Noisy wind farms face ban as ministers launch review into ‘annoying’ sound levels The Telegraph Emily Godsen 30 November 2014 Exclusive: Energy department commissions review into disturbance from turbine noise in order to decide when annoyance becomes unacceptable  Noisy wind farms that disturb local communities could be banned, after ministers launched an unprecedented review into … Continue reading UK Plan to Ban Noisy Wind Farms

UK Wind Industry Turns to Bribery as it Fails to “Win Brit’s Hearts & Minds”

**** Ministers accused of trying to ‘buy off’ local discontent on wind farms Western Morning News Phil Goodwin 12 October 2014 Landscape campaigners have described the latest Government moves to help communities obtain financial benefits from wind farms as a guide to bribery. The Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) has set out new … Continue reading UK Wind Industry Turns to Bribery as it Fails to “Win Brit’s Hearts & Minds”

Alan Jones interviews David Leyonhjelm on the Senate’s Inquiry Into the Great Wind Power Fraud & Cross-Bench LRET Plan

**** The wind industry in Australia is in full-scale panic because the Senate's cross-benchers (who hold the balance of power in the Upper House) have won Coalition support for their Inquiry into the great wind power fraud: which will turn a (long-overdue) blowtorch on the biggest rort in Australian history (see our post here). Adding … Continue reading Alan Jones interviews David Leyonhjelm on the Senate’s Inquiry Into the Great Wind Power Fraud & Cross-Bench LRET Plan