US Wind Power Backlash: Ohioans Fight for Fundamental Rights to Hold and Enjoy Property

**** The backlash against the great wind power fraud continues, apace. Here's another tale of well-organised and well-informed community defenders in action; setting out to prevent yet another economic and environmental disaster that - in their prescient words: "would ruin our tranquil rural community and deprive us of our fundamental rights to hold and enjoy … Continue reading US Wind Power Backlash: Ohioans Fight for Fundamental Rights to Hold and Enjoy Property

Turbine Shut Down Order Instantly Restores Victims’ Health: Neighbours Rejoice at 1st Decent Night’s Sleep in Years

**** Falmouth wind turbine to be shut down Cape Cod Times Sean F. Driscoll 28 September 2015 FALMOUTH — One of the town’s twin wind turbines will be shut down after the Board of Selectmen voted Monday night to comply with a recent order to temporarily stop its operation. During a closed-door meeting, the board … Continue reading Turbine Shut Down Order Instantly Restores Victims’ Health: Neighbours Rejoice at 1st Decent Night’s Sleep in Years

Wind Industry Welfare: How Crony Capitalism Drives the Great Wind Power Fraud

  'Wind PTC Action Hub': Time to End Energy Cronyism Master Resource Robert Bradley Jr. 9 October 2015 “Without the PTC, any mandated wind generation would be an even bigger political problem because its cost inflation would be exposed. The wind-is-competitive-with-fossil-fuels hyperbole would be refuted in real time.” Congress enacted the Wind Production Tax Credit (PTC) in 1992 as a temporary measure … Continue reading Wind Industry Welfare: How Crony Capitalism Drives the Great Wind Power Fraud

The Wind Industry’s State-Sanctioned Global Killing Fields

**** In a few years to come, when the generation responsible for the current energy mess reaches its belated age of reason, and has to explain the Genesis and Armageddon of the great wind power fraud, one of the tougher questions for gramps and granny will be why did we build an utterly meaningless power … Continue reading The Wind Industry’s State-Sanctioned Global Killing Fields

Canada’s Wind Power Debacle: $Billions Wasted with CO2 Emissions to Double

Ontario is the place where the most bizarre energy policy in the world has seen thousands of these things speared into the backyards of homes – in the most agriculturally productive part of Canada. When we say “bizarre” we mean completely bonkers. Canada has one of the “cleanest” power generation mixes on the planet, with … Continue reading Canada’s Wind Power Debacle: $Billions Wasted with CO2 Emissions to Double

100% Wind Powered Future? = 100% Fan-Tasy

**** At STT we love scotching wind power myths – and all the more so when it can be done with pictures: The Wind Power Fraud (in pictures): Part 1 – the South Australian Wind Farm Fiasco The Wind Power Fraud (in pictures): Part 2 – The Whole Eastern Grid Debacle The ‘arguments’ pitched up … Continue reading 100% Wind Powered Future? = 100% Fan-Tasy

Wind Power Investment Collapses in Sweden, Denmark, Finland & Norway

**** When the wind industry and its worshippers start chanting their mantras about the ‘wonders’ of wind, it isn’t long before they start preaching about the examples purportedly set by the Europeans; and, in particular, the Nordic nations. That the wind power fraud was driven by Denmark’s struggling turbine maker, Vestas probably has a fair … Continue reading Wind Power Investment Collapses in Sweden, Denmark, Finland & Norway

RAF’s Top Guns Call Wind Farms a ‘Disaster in the Making’ for Flyers

**** There are at least 2 critical dangers for flyers created by these things: 1) air turbulence – generated by a sea of 50-60m blades with their outer tips travelling at around 350-400km/h – interfering with the ability of the pilot to control their kite (see our post here); and 2) slamming into them – … Continue reading RAF’s Top Guns Call Wind Farms a ‘Disaster in the Making’ for Flyers

Democracy in Action: Vermonters Vent Fury at Planned Wind Power Project

**** Remember all those glowing stories about wind power outfits being welcomed into rural communities with open arms? You know, tales about how farmers are dying to have turbines lined up all over their properties? How locals can’t wait to pick up some of the thousands of permanent, high paying jobs on offer? How developers … Continue reading Democracy in Action: Vermonters Vent Fury at Planned Wind Power Project

Rye Park Rumble: 91% of Locals Hostile to Trustpower’s Planned Wind Farm Disaster

A week or so back we covered the antics of another foreign owned wind power outfit struggling to come to grips with the fact that Australian rural communities have had - as they say - ‘a gutful’ of the wind industry’s lies, treachery and deceit. And they’ve especially had enough of the bully-boy, stand-over tactics … Continue reading Rye Park Rumble: 91% of Locals Hostile to Trustpower’s Planned Wind Farm Disaster