**** The number of cases involving collapsing turbines and flying blades (aka “component liberation”) has become so common that, if we were a tad cynical, we would go so far to suggest the possibility of some kind of pattern, along the lines proffered by Mr Bond’s nemesis, Goldfinger: “Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three … Continue reading Wind Turbine Blade Throw: Senate Inquiry Gives Chance to Hammer Insanely Dangerous Setback Rules: Submissions Extended to 4 May
Category: Australia
Community Wind Farm Investors Losing their Shirts
**** As the wind industry Ponzi scheme unravels around the globe, it's so-called "community wind farms" that are taking a pounding. In the US, a bunch of farmers got fleeced for $millions as a wind power outfit running two small wind farms went belly up on the prairie (see our post here). STT has also … Continue reading Community Wind Farm Investors Losing their Shirts
Labor, Greg Hunt & Australia’s Wind Industry Panic as LRET Set to Implode
**** Back in October last year, STT predicted that Australia’s Labor opposition would reject any moves by the Coalition to scale back the (completely unsustainable) Large-Scale Renewable Energy Target (LRET) (see our posts here and here). It was around that time, that the Coalition’s (killing) Industry Minister, Ian “Macca” Mcfarlane; and his youthful ward, (carpeting … Continue reading Labor, Greg Hunt & Australia’s Wind Industry Panic as LRET Set to Implode
How Wind Power Subsidies Destroy Both Electricity Markets & Economies
**** Around the globe, the wind industry behaves like an enormous, bloodsucking leech - latching onto power consumers and taxpayers; and ever ready to drain its hosts dry and leave nothing but empty shells behind. In Australia, those soon to be empty shells will include what’s left of our manufacturing industries; mineral processors and the … Continue reading How Wind Power Subsidies Destroy Both Electricity Markets & Economies
Today Tonight Report on Steven Cooper’s Cape Bridgewater Acoustic Study
Cape Bridgewater Report Rodney Lohse Channel 7's Today Tonight 16 March 2015 [Click on the image above and click through for the Today Tonight video. Transcript appears below.] Transcript Rosanna Mangiarelli: But we will start tonight with a wind farm war. Those who claim that turbines are having an impact on surrounding communities, versus those who … Continue reading Today Tonight Report on Steven Cooper’s Cape Bridgewater Acoustic Study
The Wind Industry: You Know It’s a ‘Ponzi’ Scheme When its Targets Include Schools & Councils
**** STT has pointed out just a few times that the wind industry is little more than the most recent and elaborate Ponzi scheme in a list that dates back to “corporate investment classics”, like the South-Sea Bubble and Dutch tulip mania. In the wind industry, the scam is all about pitching bogus projected returns … Continue reading The Wind Industry: You Know It’s a ‘Ponzi’ Scheme When its Targets Include Schools & Councils
Simon Chapman, Will Grant & Jacqui Hoepner: the Wind Industry’s Health “Expert” Great Pretenders
**** It’s been nearly 2 months since Steven Cooper’s ground breaking Cape Bridgewater acoustic study exploded like a small, but rather effective nuclear device - putting him on the international stage - and Scotching, once and for all, the nonsense that wind farm victims’ complaints about sleep deprivation, and other adverse health effects, caused by … Continue reading Simon Chapman, Will Grant & Jacqui Hoepner: the Wind Industry’s Health “Expert” Great Pretenders
Pacific Hydro’s Ponzi Scheme Implodes: Wind Power Outfit Loses $700 Million of Mum & Dad Retirement Savings
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). Now, its slap-dash approach to management, and all-round corporate malfeasance, has … Continue reading Pacific Hydro’s Ponzi Scheme Implodes: Wind Power Outfit Loses $700 Million of Mum & Dad Retirement Savings
Ian Macfarlane, Greg Hunt & Australia’s Wind Power Debacle: is it Dumb and Dumber 2, or Liar Liar?
Australia's Energy Minister, Ian “Macca” Macfarlane and his youthful ward, Environment Minister, Greg Hunt are the flies in the Coalition’s political ointment, when it comes to engineering anything like a sensible policy on energy. Both Macfarlane’s and Hunt’s offices are filled with wind industry plants and stooges, like Hunt’s senior adviser, Patrick Gibbons. Patrick … Continue reading Ian Macfarlane, Greg Hunt & Australia’s Wind Power Debacle: is it Dumb and Dumber 2, or Liar Liar?
NHMRC Fails Science 101 in Continued Wind Farm Health Cover Up
Australia’s National Health and Medical Research Council has long since disqualified itself as a body fit, willing, or even able to investigate and report on the known and obvious consequences to human health and well-being caused by incessant turbine generated low-frequency noise and infrasound. From the get go, it’s been infiltrated by wind industry … Continue reading NHMRC Fails Science 101 in Continued Wind Farm Health Cover Up