**** A week back we covered the unfolding calamity in South Australia – where a sudden wind power output collapse plunged 110,000 homes into darkness, across most of the State, without warning: Wind Industry’s Armageddon: Wind Farm Output Collapse Leaves 110,000 South Australian Homes & Businesses Powerless What’s become painfully clear to the general populace … Continue reading Rocketing Prices AND Blackouts: South Australians Lament Their Dark & Dismal Wind ‘Powered’ Future
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Looking for Safe, Affordable, CO2 Free Power? Then it’s Nukes or Nothing
**** Let’s assume (as STT does, for the sake of argument) that the global warming/climate change Chicken Littles are right: the sky really is falling and it’s all CO2’s fault. So what the HELL are we doing pouring hundreds of billions of dollars into subsidies for wind power? The Wind Power Fraud (in pictures): Part … Continue reading Looking for Safe, Affordable, CO2 Free Power? Then it’s Nukes or Nothing
Bjørn Lomborg Counts the ‘Enormous’ Cost of the Wind Power ‘Mirage’
When it comes to assessing the costs, risks and benefits of environmental policy, Bjørn Lomborg is one of the very few that provide balanced, detailed analysis; properly supported by facts and evidence. The economic choices we make – about allocating scarce resources to unlimited wants – should – as Lomborg consistently points out – be … Continue reading Bjørn Lomborg Counts the ‘Enormous’ Cost of the Wind Power ‘Mirage’
Wind Industry’s Armageddon: Wind Farm Output Collapse Leaves 110,000 South Australian Homes & Businesses Powerless
**** STT could be forgiven for being just a little smug after events unfolded last Sunday night (1 November 2015) in Australia’s “Wind Farm Capital”, South Australia. As our post - Wind Power Disaster Unfolds: SA Facing Total Blackouts, Rocketing Power Prices & Thousands More Chopped from the Grid - was being put together for … Continue reading Wind Industry’s Armageddon: Wind Farm Output Collapse Leaves 110,000 South Australian Homes & Businesses Powerless
Wind Power Disaster Unfolds: SA Facing Total Blackouts, Rocketing Power Prices & Thousands More Chopped from the Grid
**** To call what South Australia’s Labor government has ‘gifted’ their constituents an energy ‘policy’, is to flatter it as involving some kind of genuine ‘design’. It’s an economic debacle, pure and simple. The current mess started under former Premier, Mike Rann – a former spin-doctor, whose relatives lined up at the wind power subsidy … Continue reading Wind Power Disaster Unfolds: SA Facing Total Blackouts, Rocketing Power Prices & Thousands More Chopped from the Grid
Britain’s Economic Nightmare Unfolds: Wind Power Costs Killing Thousands of REAL Jobs
**** A few posts back we focused on the naked malice of Labor's Bill Shorten - as he derided Joanne Kermond on national television. Joanne is among the many victims of Pacific Hydro's non-compliant Cape Bridgewater disaster - an outfit owned by Bill's Labor/Union buddies, which has been defrauding the Commonwealth for nearly 7 years: … Continue reading Britain’s Economic Nightmare Unfolds: Wind Power Costs Killing Thousands of REAL Jobs
Britain’s Insanely Expensive & Utterly Pointless Wind Power Fiasco Exposed
**** When it comes to their demand for electricity, the power consumer has a couple of basic needs: when they hit the light switch they assume illumination will shortly follow and that when the kettle is kicked into gear it’ll be boiling soon thereafter. And the power consumer assumes that these – and similar actions … Continue reading Britain’s Insanely Expensive & Utterly Pointless Wind Power Fiasco Exposed
NSW Minister – Pru Goward – Joins Forces with Community Defenders to Kill Plans for Trustpower’s Rye Park Wind Farm Disaster
**** A week or so back 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 NSW Minister – Pru Goward – Joins Forces with Community Defenders to Kill Plans for Trustpower’s Rye Park Wind Farm Disaster
Liberal Senator – Chris Back – Demands Moratorium on New Wind Farms
**** Over bitter opposition from Labor and the Greens, and following almost 6 months of solid graft, 8 hearings in 4 States and the ACT, dozens of witnesses and almost 500 submissions, the Senate Inquiry into the great wind power fraud delivered its ‘doorstop’ final report, which runs to some 350 pages – available here: … Continue reading Liberal Senator – Chris Back – Demands Moratorium on New Wind Farms
Who Needs Wind When Massive Subsidies Will Do the Trick?
**** WHO NEEDS WIND WHEN YOU’VE GOT SUBSIDIES Pickering Post Larry Pickering 25 September 2015 A unique set of circumstances gave Turnbull the keys to Kirribilli House, but he didn’t want them, he decided to stay in his far nicer house at Point Piper while he does his filthy global warming deals with the Greens … Continue reading Who Needs Wind When Massive Subsidies Will Do the Trick?
