**** 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
Category: Australia
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
Infigen Imploding: Puts US Wind Farms On the Market in Last-Ditch Attempt to Balance its Books
**** Infigen is an all-wind-power-outfit that used to be called Babcock and Brown, which collapsed in spectacular fashion back in 2009: the way things are headed, get set for a replay. Infigen is bleeding cash (it backed up a $55 million loss in 2011/12 with an $80 million loss in 2012/13 and keeps losing money, … Continue reading Infigen Imploding: Puts US Wind Farms On the Market in Last-Ditch Attempt to Balance its Books
What REAL Experts are Saying About Steven’s Cooper’s Wind Farm Noise Study
**** In our recent post we popped up the study done by Steven Cooper at Pacific Hydro’s Cape Bridgewater wind farm, that’s sent the wind industry and its parasites into complete melt-down. Its keenest advocates have turned on Pac Hydro, with the kind of hate-filled vengeance (usually reserved for traitors) for letting Cooper off the … Continue reading What REAL Experts are Saying About Steven’s Cooper’s Wind Farm Noise Study
STT’s Australian of the Year Awards
**** Australians are a weird mob - as that, somewhat historically inaccurate, mash up demonstrates. “Cooky” was, of course, a Yorkshireman; and, strictly speaking, Burke, of Burke and Wills fame, was an Irish born solider and policeman. Ned Kelly, the only gluten intolerant bushranger in history - born in Victoria, to an Irish convict father … Continue reading STT’s Australian of the Year Awards