South Australia has earned the unenviable title of Australia’s ‘Wind Power Capital’. For its sins it has seen power prices rocket (the forward price, at $90 per MWh is more than double its neighbour Victoria’s) and unemployment with it: worse is yet to come, on both scores. Then there’s the grid instability and state-wide blackouts … Continue reading The Staggering Cost of Pointless Wind Power: Can Australia Avoid Economic Suicide?
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Wind Power: Dangerous, Expensive, Pointless, Bird, Bat & Community Killer
Producing power with NO commercial value (save the massive taxpayer/power consumer subsidies it attracts); at a cost 3-4 times that of the reliable and secure stuff; spontaneously bursting into flame, throwing 10 tonne blades to the four winds or crashing to Earth in fits of vertical surrender, and along the way prematurely taking more than … Continue reading Wind Power: Dangerous, Expensive, Pointless, Bird, Bat & Community Killer
Bad Blood: Fatal Brawl Follows Pacific Hydro’s Desecration of Aboriginal Sacred Burial Site at Cape Bridgewater Wind Farm
**** Nothing divides a community like a wind farm. And that inviolable rule applies with equal force to Australia’s Aboriginal communities. To say that Australia’s Aboriginal history is both long and proud is mastery in understatement. Scientific estimates vary, but there have been Aboriginal footprints on this continent for somewhere between 40,000 and 60,000 years. … Continue reading Bad Blood: Fatal Brawl Follows Pacific Hydro’s Desecration of Aboriginal Sacred Burial Site at Cape Bridgewater Wind Farm
Australian Power Retailers Give Renewable Energy Target 3 Years to Live
In this little piece from The Australian, keep an eye out for some truly desperate characters, who are having real trouble coming to terms with the fact that Australia’s electricity retailers have given the LRET no more than three years to live. Investment stalemate puts renewable energy target at risk The Australian Andrew White 16 … Continue reading Australian Power Retailers Give Renewable Energy Target 3 Years to Live
As Germany’s Energiewende Implodes, China Plans to Export Affordable Power to Power-Starved Germans
Famously, in 1793 the Emperor Qianlong penned a letter for the benefit of the entourage led by English Ambassador, Lord George McCartney, informing him and his King, George III that “we possess all things. I set no value on objects strange or ingenious, and have no use for your country’s manufactures.” Things have moved on … Continue reading As Germany’s Energiewende Implodes, China Plans to Export Affordable Power to Power-Starved Germans
Want to Destroy Your Economy? Then Follow the World’s Wind Powered Leaders: Germany & South Australia
As any student of that dismal science will tell you: for businesses, input costs matter. While wind-cultists claim that their beloveds wouldn't hurt a fly, let alone wreck whole industries, the reality is a long way removed from eco-fascist fantasy. Jack up power prices and, all things equal, an energy hungry firm's profits must fall … Continue reading Want to Destroy Your Economy? Then Follow the World’s Wind Powered Leaders: Germany & South Australia
How Wind Farm Developers Use Taxpayer Subsidies to Steal Homes & Gag Their Victims
**** In Australia, the wind industry is designed to be the beneficiary of $3billion a year in subsidies, paid for by a Federal Tax on all power consumers. Here's some of what it does with that money. Wind funds used to buy neighbours’ silence The Australian Graham Lloyd 29 March 2016 Wind farm developers are … Continue reading How Wind Farm Developers Use Taxpayer Subsidies to Steal Homes & Gag Their Victims
Stop Debating the Wind Industry & Start Destroying It
In this post we documented over 2,000 Anti-Wind Power Fraud groups operating world-wide, fighting to protect their homes, farms, families and communities from being overrun and destroyed by giant industrial wind turbines. The battles being waged have a common enemy, but the tactics and strategies employed are diverse – and, unfortunately, in some cases play … Continue reading Stop Debating the Wind Industry & Start Destroying It
Tasmania’s LRET Inflicted Power Crisis: its 308 MW of Wind Power Capacity Deemed Utterly Worthless
**** Lunatics, like those that people Australia’s Labor Party and the so-called ‘Greens’, continue to delude themselves that, not only is wind power a ‘meaningful’ power generation source, but also that, if we would all simply have faith and ‘believe’, our modern, first world economies could be run entirely upon the whims of the Wind … Continue reading Tasmania’s LRET Inflicted Power Crisis: its 308 MW of Wind Power Capacity Deemed Utterly Worthless
Stop These Things & Stop the Slaughter of Endangered Brolgas
There are few campaigners who can match Victorian Western District farmer and grazier, Hamish Cumming for courage and sheer determination. Hamish is a true environmentalist – his love of endangered brolgas and his sterling efforts to prevent them being sliced and diced by these things, has made him a true Victorian legend. Hamish has served … Continue reading Stop These Things & Stop the Slaughter of Endangered Brolgas
