The final part of the interview with Tim Le Roy. In this episode Tim describes how subsidies have warped the green energy ideal and caused significant job losses by supporting the roll-out of a deeply-flawed product - industrial wind turbines (4.11).
Category: Australia
Macfarlane: on the road to Damascus?
STT has always had its suspicions about Ian Macfarlane. Is he a Green in Wolf’s clothing? Is he “featherbedding” for a career after politics? Why is it that he seems hesitant to really sink the boots into an industry so ridden with corruption and pure corporate evil that even pure stink smells good by comparison? … Continue reading Macfarlane: on the road to Damascus?
The “Le Roy Tapes”: Part 4 – Health
Part 4 of 5 of the interview with Tim Le Roy. In this episode Tim shares his watershed moment when he meets affected people and realises the extent of the suffering that can occur when industrial wind turbines are sited too close to peoples homes. He shares his experiences of homes in Waubra and Toora … Continue reading The “Le Roy Tapes”: Part 4 – Health
RATCH – get your hands off our pumpkin patch – Part 2
In Part 1 STT readers learned of an effort by Collector’s locals to take back their pumpkin festival which had been purloined by a local (proposed) turbine host, Gary Poile, with the help of his benefactor, the Thai wind farm developer, RATCH. Well, on the big day, to Gary's horror, the locals turned up in … Continue reading RATCH – get your hands off our pumpkin patch – Part 2
RATCH – get your hands off our pumpkin patch – Part 1
A couple of weeks ago the Canberra Times reported on a community fight-back brewing at Collector. We will follow up the aftermath in Part 2. Wind farm divides festival The Canberra Times May 1, 2013 Hamish Boland-Rudder A Collector plumber has outbid a multinational, multimillion dollar energy company to be this year’s primary sponsor of … Continue reading RATCH – get your hands off our pumpkin patch – Part 1
Well, Vic Health, why are we waiting?
You’ll remember the serve Annie Gardner dished up recently to the Victorian Department of Health over its lamentable piece of wind industry backed spin. STT knows that “Tenacity” is Annie’s middle name, and true to it, she is back on the warpath demanding a response from the Department’s Graeme Gillespie. Well Graeme, a Gentleman never … Continue reading Well, Vic Health, why are we waiting?
The “Le Roy Tapes”: Part 3 – Fraud
This is number 3 of a 5-part interview with Mr. Tim Le Roy, spokesman for the Coastal Guardians. In this installment, Tim focuses on the fraud of wind energy. An a financial specialist, Tim explains the economic fraud of inefficient, expensive and intermittent wind power. Tim also provides some simple explanations as to why wind … Continue reading The “Le Roy Tapes”: Part 3 – Fraud
The “Le Roy Tapes”: Part 2 – Community Impact
This is the second part of a 5-part interview with Mr. Tim Le Roy, spokesman for the Coastal Guardians. In this installment, Tim focuses on the impact that wind development has had on the communities he has worked with. He discusses the land-leasing strategies used by wind developers and the resulting inequity within the community. He … Continue reading The “Le Roy Tapes”: Part 2 – Community Impact
Rally Update: Alan Moran to Speak on the Economic Fraud of Wind Power
STT is delighted to announce that one of Australia's leading energy market economists will address the National Rally, June 18, Parliament House, Canberra. Alan has a deep understanding of the failed economics of wind power and STT expects he will play a key role in shaping the Coalition Government's energy policy come September. Alan Moran … Continue reading Rally Update: Alan Moran to Speak on the Economic Fraud of Wind Power
Red Faces at the Victorian Department of Health
A week or so ago, the wind industry and its parasites crowed about a report released by the Victorian Department of Health, with even more than the usual whiff of desperation. The report was touted by the Clean Energy Council as a complete exoneration on all charges, sins and omissions. What a pity it contained … Continue reading Red Faces at the Victorian Department of Health
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