**** Our Toxic Relationship with Wind Power The Valley Patriot Christine Morabito February, 2015 If clean, safe and efficient energy is to be our standard, then why use wind power at all? When we examine the entire process, the construction and operation of wind turbines is a dangerous and toxic affair. It begins with the … Continue reading Wind Power’s Toxic Embrace
Category: Australia
Victorian Country Fire Authority’s Claim that Wind Turbines Not Combustible Scorched
**** During the Senate Inquiry's first hearing into the great wind power fraud, the Committee had to listen to a number of wind industry backed patsies and stooges. Among them were a pair from Victoria's Country Fire Authority (CFA): Craig Brownlie (Operations Officer, Specialist Response) and Andrew Andreou (Executive Manager, Community Infrastructure). When the pair were quizzed … Continue reading Victorian Country Fire Authority’s Claim that Wind Turbines Not Combustible Scorched
Wind Industry Ponzi Scheme Collapsing: Pacific Hydro’s “Downfall”
**** Pacific Hydro is a name synonymous with wind industry skulduggery in Australia: the merciless treatment of its victims at Cape Bridgewater has been added to the annals of Australian corporate infamy, right up there with Aussie asbestos pedlar, James Hardie (see our post here). Pac Hydro has copped a pasting for riding roughshod over … Continue reading Wind Industry Ponzi Scheme Collapsing: Pacific Hydro’s “Downfall”
Tide Turns as Senate Inquiry hears from the Wind Industry’s “Road-Kill”
**** In the last few posts we've covered the unravelling of the great wind power fraud, as the Senate Inquiry hit the road at Portland, Victoria on 30 March. While the heat was turned up on Pacific Hydro - the beleaguered wind power outfit responsible for the Cape Bridgewater disaster - the Inquiry also got … Continue reading Tide Turns as Senate Inquiry hears from the Wind Industry’s “Road-Kill”
Senate’s Wind Farm Inquiry Turns Up the Heat On Pac Hydro’s Malfeasance
**** The Australian Senate Inquiry into the great wind power fraud kicked off on 30 March, at Portland in Victoria. The Inquiry is teamed by a band of merry men – Queensland National Senator, Matthew Canavan, WA Liberal, Chris Back, independents Nick Xenophon and John Madigan, Liberal Democrat, David Leyonhjelm, Family First Senator, Bob Day … Continue reading Senate’s Wind Farm Inquiry Turns Up the Heat On Pac Hydro’s Malfeasance
Senate Inquiry: Hamish Cumming & Ors tip a bucket on the Great Wind Power Fraud
**** The Australian Senate Inquiry into the great wind power fraud kicked off on 30 March. And, fitting it was, that this band of merry men – Queensland National Senator, Matthew Canavan, WA Liberal, Chris Back, independents Nick Xenophon and John Madigan, Liberal Democrat, David Leyonhjelm, Family First Senator, Bob Day (and one, not-so-happy, Labor … Continue reading Senate Inquiry: Hamish Cumming & Ors tip a bucket on the Great Wind Power Fraud
Senate’s Wind Farm Inquiry: Steven Cooper’s Evidence on his Groundbreaking Study
**** The Australian Senate Inquiry into the great wind power fraud kicked off on 30 March. And, fitting it was, that this band of merry men – Queensland National Senator, Matthew Canavan, WA Liberal, Chris Back, independents Nick Xenophon and John Madigan, Liberal Democrat, David Leyonhjelm, Family First Senator, Bob Day (and one, not-so-happy, Labor … Continue reading Senate’s Wind Farm Inquiry: Steven Cooper’s Evidence on his Groundbreaking Study
Today Tonight Reports on Senate Inquiry Into the Great Wind Power Fraud
**** The Australian Senate Inquiry into the great wind power fraud kicked off on 30 March. And, fitting it was, that this band of merry men – Queensland National Senator, Matthew Canavan, WA Liberal, Chris Back, independents Nick Xenophon and John Madigan, Liberal Democrat, David Leyonhjelm, Family First Senator, Bob Day (and one, not-so-happy, Labor … Continue reading Today Tonight Reports on Senate Inquiry Into the Great Wind Power Fraud
Wind Industry Armageddon: Power Retailers Win Round One in Battle to Kill LRET
**** As STT has pointed out, just once or twice, the policy debacle that is the Large-Scale Renewable Energy Target (LRET) is completely unsustainable, on every level: economic, social and political. In the absence of the mandated subsidies (“the carrot”) directed to wind power outfits, and the mandated penalties (“the stick”) whacked on retailers under … Continue reading Wind Industry Armageddon: Power Retailers Win Round One in Battle to Kill LRET
Who exempts the Poor from the LRET’s $50 Billion Electricity Tax & More Power Price Punishment?
**** The "debate" about the Large-Scale Renewable Energy Target continues to rage in Canberra, where the rent-seekers' game of "save the LRET at all costs" has been driven by the increasingly panicked and apoplectic rantings of Miles George and Kane Thornton. Miles heads up near-bankrupt wind power outfit Infigen (aka Babcock & Brown) and, to … Continue reading Who exempts the Poor from the LRET’s $50 Billion Electricity Tax & More Power Price Punishment?
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