**** When STT cranked into gear in December 2012, hammering the wind industry was a fairly lonely occupation: hardly fashionable; a bit like wearing yellow to a funeral, really. Back then, openly questioning the “wonders” of wind power was a guaranteed dinner party showstopper. Nervous hosts – choking on their organic pinot gris – would … Continue reading Costly & Pointless Wind Power Subsidies Slammed by Australia’s National Party
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Vesta’s Ken McAlpine Forced to Apologise to Dr Sarah Laurie for …. well, just being ‘Ken’
**** In Australia, struggling Danish turbine maker, Vestas is in more trouble than Ned Kelly at Glenrowan. With construction of wind farms at a standstill; and the very few developers hoping to press on with projects, plumping for cheaper versions of these things - made in India and China, Vesta’s Australian adventure is little more … Continue reading Vesta’s Ken McAlpine Forced to Apologise to Dr Sarah Laurie for …. well, just being ‘Ken’
Pacific Hydro & Acciona’s Acoustic ‘Consultant’ Fakes ‘Compliance’ Reports for Non-Compliant Wind Farms
**** Victorian Senator - and STT Champion - John Madigan delivered the speech-of-a-lifetime in the Federal Senate this week, recorded in the video and Hansard (transcript) below. What John reveals is nothing short of criminal, as we detail later in the post. **** **** SENATE Hansard TUESDAY, 15 SEPTEMBER 2015 Senator MADIGAN: Firstly, I seek … Continue reading Pacific Hydro & Acciona’s Acoustic ‘Consultant’ Fakes ‘Compliance’ Reports for Non-Compliant Wind Farms
Let the Sun Shine In: Australia’s BIGGEST Power Retailer Determined to Kill Wind Power
**** 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 Let the Sun Shine In: Australia’s BIGGEST Power Retailer Determined to Kill Wind Power
Australia’s Most Notorious Wind Power Outfit – Infigen – Blames $304 Million Loss on the WIND
**** Infigen is an all-wind-power-outfit that used to be called Babcock and Brown, which collapsed in spectacular fashion back in 2009: the way things are headed, get set for a replay. As an investment 'prospect', Infigen is all about bleeding cash. It backed up a $55 million loss in 2011/12 with an $80 million loss … Continue reading Australia’s Most Notorious Wind Power Outfit – Infigen – Blames $304 Million Loss on the WIND
Wind Power Ponzi Scheme Running Out of Puff
*** Who would have thought, hey? That a wholly weather dependent power generation ‘system’, actually depended upon …. the weather? In the mother of all ironies, wind power outfits in the US - well, everywhere, really - are cursing the Wind Gods, as their puffed up promised profits plummet; and investors fume. The wind industry … Continue reading Wind Power Ponzi Scheme Running Out of Puff
Wind Industry Still Wailing About ‘Uncertainty’ as Australian Retailers Continue to Reject Wind Power ‘Deals’
[Could it be something about the 'product', maybe?] Back in February this year, STT covered the unassailable fact that Australia’s Large-Scale Renewable Energy Target (LRET) - then set at a colossal 41,000 GWh - was completely unsustainable on every level - economic, political and social: LRET “Stealth Tax” to Cost Australian Power Punters $30 BILLION … Continue reading Wind Industry Still Wailing About ‘Uncertainty’ as Australian Retailers Continue to Reject Wind Power ‘Deals’
Forces Marshall in International Revolt Against the Great Wind Power Fraud
*** Across the Globe - wherever these things things have been threatened upon rural communities - or the threat has been realised - outrage follows. One line spun is that the hostility is an entirely English speaking phenomenon. That piffle was firmly skewered by Lilli-Anne Green (an American researcher and documentary film-maker, who has spoken … Continue reading Forces Marshall in International Revolt Against the Great Wind Power Fraud
Potential Wind Farm Neighbour Finds Idyllic Property is Now ‘Unsaleable’ at Any Price
**** STT hears that hundreds of communities across rural Australia are about to launch the mother-of-all counter-attacks, against the pending threat of having their homes quite literally stolen by wind power outfits. Monstrous outfits - like near-bankrupt Infigen - are just dying to spear another 2,500 of these things into places that have greeted that … Continue reading Potential Wind Farm Neighbour Finds Idyllic Property is Now ‘Unsaleable’ at Any Price
Senators Back & Leyonhjelm Keep Hammering the Great Wind Power Fraud
*** 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: Senate Report The first 200 pages are filled with … Continue reading Senators Back & Leyonhjelm Keep Hammering the Great Wind Power Fraud
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