The ONLY justification for wind power – the massive subsidies upon which it entirely depends (see our post here); spiralling power prices (see our post here); and the suffering caused to neighbours by incessant low-frequency noise and infrasound (see our post here) - is the claim that it reduces CO2 emissions in the electricity … Continue reading How Much CO2 Gets Emitted to Build a Wind Turbine?
Category: Australia
Victorian Planning Department involved in Waubra Wind Farm Non-Compliance Cover Up
**** The unseemly links between the wind industry and Victoria's Department of Planning (DPCD) were laid bare by Senator John "Marshall" Madigan back in December last year (see our post here). The relationship has seen the DPCD do the wind industry's bidding at every turn: lying about non-compliance with noise conditions of planning consents and, … Continue reading Victorian Planning Department involved in Waubra Wind Farm Non-Compliance Cover Up
Community Opposition to Wind Farms Grows Because Wind Power is a Fraud
As community and political opposition to the great wind power fraud rolls and builds across the world, the charge that opponents are red-necked climate change deniers, infected with a dose of Not In My Backyard syndrome, starts to ring hollow. Surely that charge can’t stick to each and every one of the 1,000 who signed … Continue reading Community Opposition to Wind Farms Grows Because Wind Power is a Fraud
NSW Planning Department Helps Wind Farm Developers Rig Community “Consultations”
As community hostility to wind farm plans erupts across the Southern Tablelands of NSW, wind power outfits have taken to sacking and stacking committees to ensure the “process” of “community consultation” is little more than high farce. Spanish outfit, Union Fenosa didn’t like the prospect of having Tony Abbott’s key business adviser, Maurice Newman challenge … Continue reading NSW Planning Department Helps Wind Farm Developers Rig Community “Consultations”
1,000 Sign Petition Against Mt Emerald Wind Farm: Survey says 92% Opposed
The battle to prevent RATCH from getting planning approval for the disaster it proposes for Mount Emerald has reached fever pitch (see our post here). Furious locals have produced a community petition and survey that shows the depth of opposition to the project and the manner in which the developer has ridden roughshod over a … Continue reading 1,000 Sign Petition Against Mt Emerald Wind Farm: Survey says 92% Opposed
Germany’s Unsustainable “Green” Jobs “Miracle” Collapses
The Germans went into wind power harder and faster than anyone else - and the cost of doing so is catching up with a vengeance. The subsidies have been colossal, the impacts on the electricity market chaotic and - contrary to the purpose of the policy - CO2 emissions are rising fast (see our post … Continue reading Germany’s Unsustainable “Green” Jobs “Miracle” Collapses
Pac Hydro’s Cape Bridgewater Wind Farm Victims Vindicated
Headache for residents after monitoring reveals bad vibes The Australian Graham Lloyd 2 August 2014 FOR the past two months, Melissa Ware’s 150-year-old stone-foundation house in the shadow of the Cape Bridgewater wind farm in Victoria has been wired to monitor sounds that cannot be heard easily by the human ear. Ware, who is partially … Continue reading Pac Hydro’s Cape Bridgewater Wind Farm Victims Vindicated
Angus Taylor: Community Backlash Brewing Over ACT Wind Farm Plan
*** Canberra’s costly carbon follies outdo even the Danes The Australian Angus Taylor 1 August 2014 AUSTRALIANS are learning the hard way that moral vanity comes at a high price. After many years of climate policy chaos, we know that most people want some action on climate change but they don’t want to waste money … Continue reading Angus Taylor: Community Backlash Brewing Over ACT Wind Farm Plan
More Australian Wind Power “FAILS”
**** Renewables in the doldrums The Australian Graham Lloyd 2 August 2014 A spell of calm weather exposes a fatal flaw in the case for wind power FOR Australia’s multi-billion-dollar renewable energy industry, marooned in the doldrums of investment uncertainty, the big calm before the renewable energy target review storm came last week. For two … Continue reading More Australian Wind Power “FAILS”
Nick Cater: the Mandatory RET the Greatest Rort of All Time
Hostages to a renewable ruse The Australian Nick Cater 29 July 2014 The Abbott bashers are unwittingly siding with crafty merchant bankers. THE power couple. If there is a sound more pitiable than the whine of a pious environmental activist, it is the wail of a financier about to do his dough. The mournful chorus … Continue reading Nick Cater: the Mandatory RET the Greatest Rort of All Time
