Donna Laframboise: “Global Warming” – The Greatest Lie Ever Told: Pt 3

Donna Laframboise is a Canadian feminist, journalist, writer, and photographer – and is the author of “The Delinquent Teenager Who Was Mistaken for the World’s Top Climate Expert” (2011) - a book that has a pretty fair crack at the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.  Donna also runs a site called noconsensus.org - that attacks … Continue reading Donna Laframboise: “Global Warming” – The Greatest Lie Ever Told: Pt 3

Donna Laframboise: “Global Warming” – The Greatest Lie Ever Told: Pt 2

Donna Laframboise is a Canadian feminist, journalist, writer, and photographer – and is the author of “The Delinquent Teenager Who Was Mistaken for the World’s Top Climate Expert” (2011) - a book that has a pretty fair crack at the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.  Donna also runs a site called noconsensus.org - that attacks … Continue reading Donna Laframboise: “Global Warming” – The Greatest Lie Ever Told: Pt 2

Donna Laframboise: “Global Warming” – The Greatest Lie Ever Told: Pt 1

STT doesn't make a song and dance about the Old "Global Warming" Chestnut - we generally leave that to specialist bloggers on the topic. STT is usually content to load-up on the economic and environmental fraud that is wind power (see our post here). We start from the reasonable assumption that the only reason for … Continue reading Donna Laframboise: “Global Warming” – The Greatest Lie Ever Told: Pt 1

Giant Fans: the new Scottish “Croft Clearers”

**** In the Scottish Highlands and Islands “Crofting” was a common method of land use and tenure that was modeled along feudal lines; and was still common well into the 19th century.  Crofting continues, on a much smaller scale - the crofters these days usually need to earn cash incomes off farm to sustain them. … Continue reading Giant Fans: the new Scottish “Croft Clearers”

Gary Weaven’s Pacific Hydro: the Neighbour from Hell

**** Pacific Hydro - run by Union Heavy, Garry Weaven and funded by Union Super money handled by Members Equity Bank, controlled by his best mate Greg Combet - operates a non-compliant wind farm at Cape Bridgewater in Victoria - and has done since 2008. The Victorian government is well aware that Pac Hydro does … Continue reading Gary Weaven’s Pacific Hydro: the Neighbour from Hell

Vestas’ Danish Victims Lay Out the FACTS

In response to the National Wind Power Fraud Rally in June, struggling Danish fan maker, Vestas paid $millions to a crack team of spin doctors to invent a campaign aimed at winning back the “moral” high ground. It called its new public relations model “Act on Facts” - we covered some of their “facts” in … Continue reading Vestas’ Danish Victims Lay Out the FACTS

Scrapping the RET is just good Horse Sense

**** A while back we covered the disgraceful decision by SA’s Labor Planning Minister, Johnny “Rotten” Rau to allow Union Heavy, Gary Weaven’s, Pac Hydro to spear 42 giant fans into the heart of the peaceful little community at Keyneton - which sits just over the hill to the east of the iconic Barossa Valley. … Continue reading Scrapping the RET is just good Horse Sense

When the Wick Ain’t Worth the Candle

**** Giant fans: costly; unsightly; noisy; inefficient; pointless, because they can never reduce CO2 emissions; the cause of millions of bird and bat deaths each year; and built with rare earths, the mining and processing of which is turning China into a toxic wasteland - what’s not to like? Notwithstanding the growing list of dubious … Continue reading When the Wick Ain’t Worth the Candle

Tony Abbott’s Business Advisor, Maurice Newman says: “RET is killing manufacturing”

Maurice Newman was the former head of Deutsche Bank, the ABC and ASX so you’d think he might know a thing or two about the big end of town. When it comes to giant fans Maurice doesn’t mince his words: calling wind power “a crime against the people” (see our post here). Maurice has also … Continue reading Tony Abbott’s Business Advisor, Maurice Newman says: “RET is killing manufacturing”

The Great Wind Power Fraud: Rotten The World Over

Whether it’s bribery and fraud; vote rigging scandals; tax fraud; investor fraud or REC fraud – wind weasels and their political enablers set a uniform standard that’s so low a red-bellied black snake could comfortably hurdle it. Here’s STT Champion, James Delingpole telling woeful tales from three continents (the UK, the US and Australia) that … Continue reading The Great Wind Power Fraud: Rotten The World Over