Reaping the carbon policy harvest Catallaxy Files Alan Moran 18 January 2016 For five years, Tata, the Indian firm that owns what used to be British Steel has been warning that energy costs in Britain are squeezing competitiveness. Previous reductions have accelerated in 2015 with a 15 per cent cut in jobs. Successive UK governments … Continue reading The Economy Crushing Consequences of Massively Subsidised Wind Power
Category: Australia
Bankers & Investors Close Ranks & Doom Wind Industry to Death By A Thousand Cuts
**** Earlier this week we looked at how Australia’s big power retailers have turned their backs to the wind to face the Sun, instead. Commercial retailers (we don’t count the ACT Government) haven’t entered any Power Purchase Agreements with wind power outfits since November 2012; and, we hear, have determined not to enter any more … Continue reading Bankers & Investors Close Ranks & Doom Wind Industry to Death By A Thousand Cuts
Australian Power Retailers Deliver Fatal Blow to Wind Industry with Mass Solar Roll-Out
**** STT has been pointing out for sometime now, the fact that Australia’s big 3 power retailers have been refusing to ‘play ball’ with beleaguered wind power cowboys, like near-bankrupt, Infigen and the union super fund backed disaster, Pacific Hydro. Commercial retailers have not entered any power purchase agreements with wind power outfits, since about … Continue reading Australian Power Retailers Deliver Fatal Blow to Wind Industry with Mass Solar Roll-Out
STT’s Australian of the Year Awards 2016
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7i15OPuFvmA **** Australians are a weird mob - as demonstrated by that, somewhat militaristic, culinary mash up; detailing 'Operation Boomerang' - a top-level mission to extract expats from far-flung, lamb-free-zones and return them to mouth-watering, succulent barbecued delights. The fact that Aussies love our lamb, and frown on vegans, upsets the PC Police, but then … Continue reading STT’s Australian of the Year Awards 2016
Institutional Malice: Wind Farm Victims’ Government Endorsed Suffering Continues With Greg Hunt’s Knowledge
**** The number of Liberal (Australia’s once small-government, conservative, business and family friendly) Party MPs that hold a bizarre affection for these things can be tallied up on one hand. The Liberal’s King of the Wind Worship Cult is the hapless Environment Minister, young Gregory Hunt. Hunt’s office is headed up by wind industry plant, … Continue reading Institutional Malice: Wind Farm Victims’ Government Endorsed Suffering Continues With Greg Hunt’s Knowledge
How the Wind Industry Rigged Noise ‘Rules’ to Destroy Neighbours’ Lives
**** In our timeline post – Three Decades of Wind Industry Deception: A Chronology of a Global Conspiracy of Silence and Subterfuge – we covered the fact that – from 1995 – the wind industry drew together a hand-picked team with a mission to write noise rules with absolutely no relevance to wind turbine noise; … Continue reading How the Wind Industry Rigged Noise ‘Rules’ to Destroy Neighbours’ Lives
Germans Losing €Millions on Community Wind Farm ‘Investments’
Anyone that’s looking to make a small fortune, need only hand a very large one to a community wind farm operator: More Wind Power Outfits Go Bust: “Farmer-Investors” Lose their Shirts in the US Community Wind Farm Investors Losing their Shirts Part of their pitch (some might call it laying bait for the more gullible … Continue reading Germans Losing €Millions on Community Wind Farm ‘Investments’
SA Wind Farms Trigger South Australian Power Crisis
**** In one sad and sorry respect, South Australia resembles Germany: both went into wind power with a vengeance; and the householders and businesses of both are watching their economic prosperity wither under the combined effect of crippling (and escalating) power prices and increasingly unreliable power supplies: Wind Industry’s Armageddon: Wind Farm Output Collapse Leaves … Continue reading SA Wind Farms Trigger South Australian Power Crisis
Communities Fighting the Great Wind Power Fraud: Defending All They’ve Worked For, With Everything They’ve Got
**** What impresses STT most is the tenacity and perseverance of community defenders, all over the Globe. Pro-farming (REAL farming, that is), pro-community and pro-real power groups are better informed and organised, and more vocal and hostile, than ever before. Hard-working, decent, rural people throughout the world are fighting back – to obtain sensible energy … Continue reading Communities Fighting the Great Wind Power Fraud: Defending All They’ve Worked For, With Everything They’ve Got
Wind Industry Goons Beating Up On Women, as Furious Community Defenders Shoot Up Turbines (Again)
**** Back in October last year we covered the antics of another foreign owned wind power outfit struggling to come to grips with the fact that Australian rural communities have had – as they say – ‘a gutful’ of the wind industry’s lies, treachery and deceit. And they’ve especially had enough of the bully-boy, stand-over … Continue reading Wind Industry Goons Beating Up On Women, as Furious Community Defenders Shoot Up Turbines (Again)