Germans Face Wind Powered Economic Nightmare: €Billions Squandered on Subsidies, as CO2 Emissions Rise

**** 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 and the impacts on the electricity market chaotic. Some 800,000 German homes have been disconnected from the grid – victims of what is euphemistically … Continue reading Germans Face Wind Powered Economic Nightmare: €Billions Squandered on Subsidies, as CO2 Emissions Rise

Wind Farm Noise Rules Irrelevant: It’s What Neighbours are Forced to Suffer that Counts

**** In our timeline post – Three Decades of Wind Industry Deception: A Chronology of a Global Conspiracy of Silence and Subterfuge – we covered the fact that – from 1995 – the wind industry drew together a hand-picked team with a mission to write noise rules with absolutely no relevance to wind turbine noise; … Continue reading Wind Farm Noise Rules Irrelevant: It’s What Neighbours are Forced to Suffer that Counts

If You’re Going through Wind Farm Hell, Then Keep Going

**** What impresses STT most is the tenacity and perseverance of community defenders, all over the Globe. Pro-farming (REAL farming, that is), pro-community and pro-real power groups are better informed and organised, and more vocal and hostile, than ever before. Hard-working, decent, rural people throughout the world are fighting back – to obtain sensible energy … Continue reading If You’re Going through Wind Farm Hell, Then Keep Going

German Doctors Spell Out the Serious Harm Caused by Wind Turbine Infrasound

**** The wind industry has known about, attempted to cover up and lied about the adverse health effects caused by incessant turbine generated low-frequency noise and infrasound for over 30 years; and knowing full-well that the dB(A) weighting is irrelevant to measuring the low-frequency noise spectrum, wrote their own ‘rules’ that even make the risible … Continue reading German Doctors Spell Out the Serious Harm Caused by Wind Turbine Infrasound

How Massively Subsidised Wind Power Destroys Power Markets & Economies

Wind and solar have destroyed the ability of the market to signal price The Telegraph Rupert Darwall 7 March 2016 Before the election, high electricity prices made the Big Six energy companies everyone’s favourite whipping boys. A report by the competition watchdog exonerated them. Government-driven social, environmental and network costs were the main drivers of … Continue reading How Massively Subsidised Wind Power Destroys Power Markets & Economies

Wind Industry Howls ‘Wolf’ as Poles Finally Get a Few Half-Decent Wind Farm Rules

**** A week or so back we covered a Bloomberg article on new rules set to be imposed in Poland, with the predictable - we're "doomed" - response from the wind industry, its parasites and spruikers. Here's an analysis of what the new rules really mean. Polish Wind Industry 'Cries Wolf' at First Attempt of … Continue reading Wind Industry Howls ‘Wolf’ as Poles Finally Get a Few Half-Decent Wind Farm Rules

51 Ontario Towns & Municipalities Call For Wind Power Subsidies to End

Ontario is an economic and social disaster zone: set upon by corrupt wind-zealots, they have seen power prices spiral out of control; and whole communities destroyed, as thousands of these things have been speared into the most agriculturally productive part of Canada. Hundreds of hard-working family farmers have been forced to abandon homes and thousands … Continue reading 51 Ontario Towns & Municipalities Call For Wind Power Subsidies to End

Huron County to Formally Record Health Effects Caused by Wind Farm Noise & Vibration

**** When lawyers, and after them, historians, write up the story of how graft and corruption paved the way for the willful ignorance (by then viewed as malign acquiescence) of the political enablers of the great wind power fraud, whole chapters will be devoted to their deliberate efforts to prevent the evidence being gathered, that … Continue reading Huron County to Formally Record Health Effects Caused by Wind Farm Noise & Vibration

Germany: 60-Tonne Wind Turbine Rotor Crashes To Earth

**** 60-Tonne Wind Turbine Rotor Crashes To Earth NoTricksZone Pierre Gosselin 1 March 2016 The online SVZ here reported yesterday on a wind-turbine construction accident occurring in Southern Germany. Workers of the Hamburg-based Nordex company were operating a large hoisting crane by remote control as it lifted the 60-tonne wind turbine rotor assembly for mounting … Continue reading Germany: 60-Tonne Wind Turbine Rotor Crashes To Earth

Australia’s Macquarie Group JV Loses $66M: Furious Kenyan Locals Kill Outrageous Wind Power Project

**** Back in February last year we covered the story of how a wind farm developer's efforts to steal land from under the noses of Kenyan farmers led to a local uprising, that ended in the murder of an innocent teenage boy. Since then, local farmers have only intensified their rage in response to more … Continue reading Australia’s Macquarie Group JV Loses $66M: Furious Kenyan Locals Kill Outrageous Wind Power Project