Category: Australia

South Australia’s Wind Power Debacle: Blackout Spells the End for Wind Power

*** Time for tilting at windmills is at an end (SA blackout shows need for energy security instead of windmills) The Australian Chris Kenny 8 October 2016 By plunging itself into darkness and flailing itself with prohibitive, self-imposed electricity costs, South Australia provides the nation with a critical warning about energy policy. It also demonstrates … Continue reading South Australia’s Wind Power Debacle: Blackout Spells the End for Wind Power

‘GUILTY’: South Australia’s Statewide Blackout Caused by Deliberate Wind Farm Shutdown

For STT, laying out the facts that disclose the greatest environmental and economic fraud of all time has been a labour of love. When we kicked off on Boxing Day 2012, STT was a lone voice in a vast wilderness: almost every man or woman claiming the mantle ‘journalist’ had ‘drunk the Kool-Aid’ - and … Continue reading ‘GUILTY’: South Australia’s Statewide Blackout Caused by Deliberate Wind Farm Shutdown

South Australia’s Wind Power Debacle Killing Miners, Mineral Processors & Scarce Jobs

*** In the aftermath of South Australia's 'Black' Wednesday, its biggest miner - BHP Billiton - and last two mineral processors - Whyalla steel maker, Arrium and Port Pirie lead and zinc smelter, Nyrstar, were left powerless and thoroughly crippled as a result. We'll start with a couple of pieces that appeared the day after. … Continue reading South Australia’s Wind Power Debacle Killing Miners, Mineral Processors & Scarce Jobs

Blackout Blues Continue: Australia’s Wind Industry Loses PR War for ‘Hearts & Minds’

The proponents of a pointless power source, abandoned centuries ago for pretty obvious reasons, which exists, and only exists by reason of massive subsidies drawn from power consumers and/or taxpayers have, from the outset, engaged in a well-orchestrated PR campaign aimed at winning ‘hearts and minds’. An industry that wouldn’t survive a nanosecond without mandated … Continue reading Blackout Blues Continue: Australia’s Wind Industry Loses PR War for ‘Hearts & Minds’

South Australia’s ‘Deluded’ Wind Power Policy a ‘Red-Flag’ for Wind Cult Zealots & Politicians Alike

*** There is nothing quite like being right in a public forum: especially when your opponents run as a rabid pack of deluded zealots, occupying a netherworld - altogether free of both fact and consequence - driven by ideology; and devoid of common sense, logic or reason. During the week just gone, the latest whole … Continue reading South Australia’s ‘Deluded’ Wind Power Policy a ‘Red-Flag’ for Wind Cult Zealots & Politicians Alike

Blackout Blues: Wind Power Obsession Makes South Australia an International Joke

The most recent grid collapse in South Australia (one that was not the first and which will, by no means, be the last) has left it the butt of jokes in its neighbouring States (not attempting to run on sunshine and breezes) and around the World. For a - 'don't say we didn't warn you' … Continue reading Blackout Blues: Wind Power Obsession Makes South Australia an International Joke

Another Statewide Blackout: South Australia’s Wind Power Disaster Continues

Thanks to its ludicrous attempt to run on sunshine and breezes, South Australia has just experienced yet another Statewide blackout. SA's vapid Premier, Jay Weatherill and what passes for media in this Country ran straight to the periphery, blaming everything except the bleeding obvious (see this piece of infantile doodling from wind cult central - the … Continue reading Another Statewide Blackout: South Australia’s Wind Power Disaster Continues

‘Mongrels’: AGL Treats its Wind Farm Neighbours with Ridicule & Contempt

*** 'Wicked' and 'wanton' doesn't quite capture the manner in which wind power outfit, AGL behaves towards its victims. Spearing hundreds of these things into the heart of (once) peaceful and prosperous rural communities would be bad enough, but treating those that suffer the consequences - such as the chronic sleep deprivation caused by incessant … Continue reading ‘Mongrels’: AGL Treats its Wind Farm Neighbours with Ridicule & Contempt

Australia’s New Senate Pushes for End to Wind Power Subsidies

*** The return of a Federal Coalition government has given the wind industry, its parasites and spruikers no respite: the 'uncertainty' they dread is still hanging over the terminal Large-Scale RET (the subsidy scheme on which the entire scam depends) like the Sword of Damocles. The LRET is set up as a $3 billion a … Continue reading Australia’s New Senate Pushes for End to Wind Power Subsidies

Wind Power Cult Propagandists Continue Preying on School Kids

In a recent post - Wind Industry Pummels Pupils with Wind-Cult Propaganda in Schools - we took a look at how the wind cult sets out to indoctrinate young and pliable minds in schools: how, in an organised and orchestrated fashion, the wind industry aims to fill their supple little heads with the fantasy that … Continue reading Wind Power Cult Propagandists Continue Preying on School Kids