**** 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
Category: Australia
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
Britain’s Ministry of Truth – the BBC – omits all but the “Convenient” facts on the Great Wind Power Fraud
**** In recent weeks, STT followers have been treated to a pitched battle between Australia’s National broadcaster, the ABC’s “Ministry of Truth” (aka Media Watch) and the facts. In Media Watch's case, it's a battle with the true facts about the known and obvious adverse health effects caused by incessant turbine generated low-frequency noise and … Continue reading Britain’s Ministry of Truth – the BBC – omits all but the “Convenient” facts on the Great Wind Power Fraud
Australia’s Clean Energy Regulator Doles Out $Billions in Subsidies to Non-Compliant Wind Farms
**** Last week saw some of the most bizarre "fun and games" ever seen before the Australian Senate, as the wind industry's "friendlies" in the employ of the Government or its Agencies - such as the Clean Energy Regulator (CER), Clean Energy Finance Coporation (CEFC) and the NHMRC - were grilled over a range of … Continue reading Australia’s Clean Energy Regulator Doles Out $Billions in Subsidies to Non-Compliant Wind Farms