**** Wind industry front men, Ian "Macca" Macfarlane and, his youthful ward, young Gregory Hunt are out to defy all-comers: the Liberal's core constituency (of conservative voters); their colleagues, Joe Hockey and Mathias Cormann; boss, Tony Abbott; and political, economic and environmental common sense - as they pump up a deal with Labor to salvage … Continue reading Out to Save their Wind Industry Mates, Macfarlane & Hunt Lock-in $46 billion LRET Retail Power Tax
Category: Australia
2015: the Wind Industry’s ‘Annus Horribilis’; or Time to Sink the Boots In
**** Any 'business' model or industry that is built around endless streams of government mandated subsidies - like Australia's REC Tax/Subsidy or the US's Production Tax Credit - pins its hopes of long-term survival on the whims of our political betters, which tend to ebb and flow with the economics that dictate the fortunes of … Continue reading 2015: the Wind Industry’s ‘Annus Horribilis’; or Time to Sink the Boots In
Tony Abbott Gets the Heads-Up on Disappointing Dan Tehan’s Pro-Wind Industry Push
**** Labor-in-Liberal clothing Federal MP, Dan Tehan manged to stir up a veritable hornet's nest in his western Victorian electorate by appearing on the Ministry's of Truth's 7.30 Report and putting in a performance that would have done wind industry spruikers, the Clean Energy Council proud (see our post here). Dan's dismal efforts to protect … Continue reading Tony Abbott Gets the Heads-Up on Disappointing Dan Tehan’s Pro-Wind Industry Push
Wind Turbine Noise Deprives Farmers and Truckers of Essential Sleep & Creates Unnecessary Danger for All
**** Deprive someone of a decent night’s sleep and the wheels start to fall off pretty quickly. In the absence of quality sleep, it’s not long and people start suffering mood swings, impaired mental function, lose capacity for abstract thought and – if operating heavy machinery or driving – become a danger to workmates and/or … Continue reading Wind Turbine Noise Deprives Farmers and Truckers of Essential Sleep & Creates Unnecessary Danger for All
Disappointing Dan: Liberal MP becomes Wind Industry Spruiker
**** STT has long had it’s doubts about Dan Tehan – a Federal MP from Western Victoria – who badges himself as a member of the Liberal Party, but who, despite his branding, increasingly sounds like the economic illiterates from the loopy-left, that have overrun the Labor Party. Well, any doubts we might have entertained … Continue reading Disappointing Dan: Liberal MP becomes Wind Industry Spruiker
Top Acoustics/Health Doc – Bob Thorne – Slams the Pro-Wind Industry Bias of the NHMRC & Clean Energy Regulator
**** The Australian Senate’s Inquiry into the great wind power fraud has received some cracking submissions; which collectively hammer the lies, treachery and deceit of an industry devoid of any social conscience, moral decency; and that, like an unreformed heroin junkie, slurps up $billions in Federally mandated subsidies, filched from power punters, without any economic … Continue reading Top Acoustics/Health Doc – Bob Thorne – Slams the Pro-Wind Industry Bias of the NHMRC & Clean Energy Regulator
Why Coal Miners, Oil and Gas Producers Simply Love Wind Power
**** The wind industry parades as an “alternative” energy source. Which begs the question: “alternative” to what? The lunatics from the hard-green left (like "Greens" head-muppet, Christine Milne) continually whine that "coal is DEATH"; and wax lyrical about the fantasy of going "100% renewable" - all the while pocketing $millions in campaign funding from the … Continue reading Why Coal Miners, Oil and Gas Producers Simply Love Wind Power
Noose Tightens on Spain’s Wind Farm Fraudsters: Tax Inspectors Uncover €110 million Paid as Bribes & Backhanders
**** The wind industry seems to attract a particular class of bloke, in much the same way that the Prohibition era drew lots of heavy-set Italians to the Mob. Maybe that seemingly endless stream of massive subsidies filched from taxpayers and power consumers generates the same allure as festering dung does for swarms of flies? … Continue reading Noose Tightens on Spain’s Wind Farm Fraudsters: Tax Inspectors Uncover €110 million Paid as Bribes & Backhanders
Australian Senators – Day, Leyonhjelm & Canavan – Line Up to Can Big Wind
**** STT likes to go in hard, call it early and keep on backing it up. Sure we descend to colourful language, and polish it off with a healthy smear of good old-fashioned sarcasm. But the idiom and imagery we use sits atop a pile of festering wind industry generated lies, deception and common garden … Continue reading Australian Senators – Day, Leyonhjelm & Canavan – Line Up to Can Big Wind
Want to Help the Poorest? Then It’s Time to Ditch Wind Power
**** The only reason that Western economies have entertained the infantile nonsense of wind power, is that the rich world can afford (at least in the short term) to throw $billions in subsidies at a wholly weather dependent "system", that will never stump up as an "alternative", unless your starting point is sitting freezing (or … Continue reading Want to Help the Poorest? Then It’s Time to Ditch Wind Power
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