**** During the short month that's passed since Steven Cooper’s Cape Bridgewater wind farm noise study hit the press (see our post here), the wind industry, its parasites and spruikers have been in a state of absolute panic. Pacific Hydro – the operator of the Cape Bridgewater disaster, which paid for the study, but deliberately … Continue reading The Smoking Gun: Top US Noise Experts – Paul Schomer & George Hessler – Endorse Steven Cooper’s Wind Farm Study
Category: Australia
Wind Industry Howls & Predicts Mass Exodus from Australia as Subsidy Trough Dries Up
Australian windfarms face $13 bln wipeout from political impasse Reuters Byron Kaye 9 February 2015 * PM Abbott wants to cut state support for industry * Labor opposition won’t back cutting clean energy target * Uncertain support regime is causing a freeze in investment * Some predict an exodus of investment SYDNEY, Feb 8 (Reuters) … Continue reading Wind Industry Howls & Predicts Mass Exodus from Australia as Subsidy Trough Dries Up
US Wind Industry Rallies to Prevent Research into Adverse Health Effects Caused by Low-Frequency Turbine Noise
**** Scott Walker’s Budget Includes $250,000 To Study ‘Wind Energy System-Related Health Issues’ Huffington Post Kate Sheppard 2 February 2015 The two-year, $68 billion budget proposal Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker unveiled Tuesday includes a request for $250,000 to study the health impacts of wind turbines. Page 449 of the budget proposal includes a recommendation from … Continue reading US Wind Industry Rallies to Prevent Research into Adverse Health Effects Caused by Low-Frequency Turbine Noise
Steven Cooper’s Cape Bridgewater Bombshell Sends Wind Industry into Flat Panic
**** In the three weeks or so that have passed since Steven Cooper’s Cape Bridgewater wind farm noise study hit the press (see our post here) the wind industry, its parasites and spruikers have been in absolute panic mode. Pacific Hydro - the operator of the Cape Bridgewater disaster, which paid for the study, but … Continue reading Steven Cooper’s Cape Bridgewater Bombshell Sends Wind Industry into Flat Panic
US Wind Industry Shudders as Senate Lines Up to Slam the PTC Subsidy Scam
**** Senate votes down PTC amendment E&E Daily Nick Juliano 29 January 2015 A majority of the Senate went on record yesterday against reinstating an expired renewable energy tax credit through the end of the decade. The 47-51 failure of a nonbinding measure calling for a five-year extension of the production tax credit (PTC) delivered … Continue reading US Wind Industry Shudders as Senate Lines Up to Slam the PTC Subsidy Scam
Greg Hunt’s “Game” of Hide and Seek: or how Australia’s most notorious wind power outfit – Infigen – hijacked Australian Energy Policy
**** Ian “Macca” Macfarlane and his youthful ward, 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 is best mates with Vesta’s … Continue reading Greg Hunt’s “Game” of Hide and Seek: or how Australia’s most notorious wind power outfit – Infigen – hijacked Australian Energy Policy
Unwilling Turbine Hosts Set to Revolt, as NSW Planning Minister – Pru Goward – Slams Spanish Fan Plans at Yass
**** Planning Minister, Pru Goward has just slammed the bag on Spanish backed wind-scammer, Epuron’s plans to carpet the rolling hills west of Yass, on the New South Wales tablelands, with giant fans. Epuron’s plans for the Yass Valley Wind farm go way back to 2009 and, had it ever got off the ground, would … Continue reading Unwilling Turbine Hosts Set to Revolt, as NSW Planning Minister – Pru Goward – Slams Spanish Fan Plans at Yass
Low-Frequency Wind Turbine Noise: a Recipe for Unhappy Mothers and Unhealthy Babies
Noise is always and everywhere a public health issue. Last year, in a piece looking at the importance of silence to healthy, happy communities, The Economist, quoting Poppy Elliot from the Noise Abatement Society, wrote that: [A] quiet environment is necessary to enable people to fulfil their intellectual and creative potential. She points to a … Continue reading Low-Frequency Wind Turbine Noise: a Recipe for Unhappy Mothers and Unhealthy Babies
David Mortimer, Turbine Host: An “Inconvenient” Wind Industry Fact
**** With Steven Cooper's Cape Bridgewater study sending shock-waves through the wind industry around the world (see our posts here and here and here), the wind industry - always prickly when it comes to fronting up to "inconvenient" facts (see our post here) - is more defensive than ever. In Australia, one long-running "inconvenience" for … Continue reading David Mortimer, Turbine Host: An “Inconvenient” Wind Industry Fact
It Don’t Take Sherlock to Know; When the Wind Don’t Blow, The Power Don’t Flow
**** STT has - just once or twice - smashed the myth that wind power can provide a meaningful supply of electricity (ie power "on-demand") - and relegated to the fiction aisle the the wind industry's "playbook", where you'll find, in bold print, the oft-told furphy about wind farms "powering" 10s of thousands of homes. … Continue reading It Don’t Take Sherlock to Know; When the Wind Don’t Blow, The Power Don’t Flow
