Author: stopthesethings

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

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

Tom Adams and Ross McKitrick: Wind Industry Claims about Wind Power NOT Causing Increased Power Prices a Tissue of Lies

**** Professor Ross McKitrick has been slamming the great wind power fraud for years now: his analysis is detailed, pointed and cuts across the lies and half-truths peddled by the wind industry, its parasites and spruikers (see our post here). Ross points to the glaringly obvious when he says that "wind turbines don't run on … Continue reading Tom Adams and Ross McKitrick: Wind Industry Claims about Wind Power NOT Causing Increased Power Prices a Tissue of Lies

European Government Support for Wind Power Collapses

**** Europe winds back the clock on windmills The Sunday Times Danny Forston 23 November 2014 Lured by subsidies, the power companies went green. But to keep the lights on they have to burn coal Sixty miles northeast of Düsseldorf, outside the town of Hamm in northwest Germany, workers are giving a final tune-up to … Continue reading European Government Support for Wind Power Collapses

Google’s Top Engineers say: “Renewable Energy Simply Won’t Work”

**** Renewable energy ‘simply WON’T WORK’: Top Google engineers The Register Lewis Page 21 November 2014 Windmills, solar, tidal - all a ‘false hope’, say Stanford PhDs Two highly qualified Google engineers who have spent years studying and trying to improve renewable energy technology have stated quite bluntly that renewables will never permit the human … Continue reading Google’s Top Engineers say: “Renewable Energy Simply Won’t Work”

Ontario’s Wind Powered Health Calamity

Ontario is the scene of a perfectly avoidable and entirely unnecessary public health disaster. The rights of people to live peaceful, healthy lives in rural Ontario have been trampled under the jackboots of Kathleen Wynne’s Liberals – a solid team of hard-‘green’-left eco-fascist nutjobs, responsible for the most bizarre, pointless and costly energy policy on … Continue reading Ontario’s Wind Powered Health Calamity

Mt Emerald: Tablelands Regional Council Puts People & Environment Before Proposed Wind Farm Disaster

**** Kempton accuses Tableland Regional Council of wind farm ‘hostility’ The Cairns Post Daniel Bateman 28 November 2014 Tablelands Regional Council has been accused of being “openly hostile” towards a controversial wind farm project and trying everything to impede its progress. THE Tablelands Regional Council has been accused of being “openly hostile” towards a controversial … Continue reading Mt Emerald: Tablelands Regional Council Puts People & Environment Before Proposed Wind Farm Disaster

Wind Industry 101: #1 ALWAYS Lie About “Unhelpful” FACTS: #2 (if #1 Fails) SUPPRESS the FACTS

Lies, treachery and deceit are all in a day’s work for wind power outfits, their parasites and spruikers (see posts here and here and here). But lies about “unhelpful” facts tend to lose their shine as the facts in question keep bobbing up from credible observers – in much the same way piles of dead … Continue reading Wind Industry 101: #1 ALWAYS Lie About “Unhelpful” FACTS: #2 (if #1 Fails) SUPPRESS the FACTS

Labor & the Australian Greens: Nasty & Stupid – the Original Energy Policy Pygmies

**** Labor have long ceased to be the “workers’ party – instead it’s all about power – and the only way to cling to power is access to fat piles of cash. The Union (Industry) Super Funds - controlled by the likes of former Climate Change Minister, Greg Combet and his best mate Garry Weaven … Continue reading Labor & the Australian Greens: Nasty & Stupid – the Original Energy Policy Pygmies