Back in October last year, we reported on the Brown County's Board of Health's declaration that Duke Energy’s Shirley Wisconsin Wind Development is a “Hazard to Human Health”: Board of Health Declares Wisconsin Wind Farm a “Human Health Hazard” Since then, for the wind industry, things have gone from bad to worse. Wisconsin ‘health hazard’ … Continue reading US Wind Industry in Flat Panic: Report Confirms Turbines a ‘Human Health Hazard’
Category: Big wind industry
Banks Baulk at Lending to Wind Power Outfits as Brits Slash Subsidies & Communities Fight Back
**** Our British counter-parts are on a roll. Since David Cameron’s thumping election win, wind power outfits in the UK have been copping a belting on all fronts. And the same is true across the ditch in the Emerald Isle. Furious communities from Armagh to Kerry; and John O'Groats to Cornwall are gathering strength and … Continue reading Banks Baulk at Lending to Wind Power Outfits as Brits Slash Subsidies & Communities Fight Back
French Revolt Against the Great Wind Power Fraud
**** The French have treated revolution as a National pastime, for much of their history: storming the Bastille in 1789; and the streets of Paris in 1969, to name a couple of people-power-hits. Today, the target of the seething masses is these things; or to the French: éoliennes. And - with a burning desire to … Continue reading French Revolt Against the Great Wind Power Fraud
Costly & Pointless Wind Power Subsidies Slammed by Australia’s National Party
**** When STT cranked into gear in December 2012, hammering the wind industry was a fairly lonely occupation: hardly fashionable; a bit like wearing yellow to a funeral, really. Back then, openly questioning the “wonders” of wind power was a guaranteed dinner party showstopper. Nervous hosts – choking on their organic pinot gris – would … Continue reading Costly & Pointless Wind Power Subsidies Slammed by Australia’s National Party
Vesta’s Ken McAlpine Forced to Apologise to Dr Sarah Laurie for …. well, just being ‘Ken’
**** In Australia, struggling Danish turbine maker, Vestas is in more trouble than Ned Kelly at Glenrowan. With construction of wind farms at a standstill; and the very few developers hoping to press on with projects, plumping for cheaper versions of these things - made in India and China, Vesta’s Australian adventure is little more … Continue reading Vesta’s Ken McAlpine Forced to Apologise to Dr Sarah Laurie for …. well, just being ‘Ken’
Pacific Hydro & Acciona’s Acoustic ‘Consultant’ Fakes ‘Compliance’ Reports for Non-Compliant Wind Farms
**** Victorian Senator - and STT Champion - John Madigan delivered the speech-of-a-lifetime in the Federal Senate this week, recorded in the video and Hansard (transcript) below. What John reveals is nothing short of criminal, as we detail later in the post. **** **** SENATE Hansard TUESDAY, 15 SEPTEMBER 2015 Senator MADIGAN: Firstly, I seek … Continue reading Pacific Hydro & Acciona’s Acoustic ‘Consultant’ Fakes ‘Compliance’ Reports for Non-Compliant Wind Farms
UK’s Wind Power Debacle to Dish Up Another ‘Winter of Discontent’
*** Electricity network in 'uncharted territory' as blackouts loom The Telegraph Andrew Critchlow 5 September 2015 As Britain loses one more power station, experts argue the grid has been left too exposed. Picture a cold and dark wintery evening in November and millions of householders across the country are switching on their kettles at the … Continue reading UK’s Wind Power Debacle to Dish Up Another ‘Winter of Discontent’
US Wind Industry Wilts as Wind Welfare Gets Slashed
The wind industry exists - and ONLY exists - for one single purpose: to wallow in a massive subsidy stream that - in order to keep this monstrous Ponzi scheme alive - will need to outlast religion. In Australia, the - already overflowing - wind power subsidy trough is designed to be refilled with $3 … Continue reading US Wind Industry Wilts as Wind Welfare Gets Slashed
‘Fighters’ Win: Another UK Wind Farm Scrapped in Response to Dogged Opposition
**** As the spruikers selling tickets in a lottery tell us: “you’ve got to be in it, to win it”. And so it is with killing off the greatest economic and environmental fraud of all time. ‘Fighters’ have a remarkable tendency to win. Those that don’t, tend to get steam-rolled, at about the same rate. … Continue reading ‘Fighters’ Win: Another UK Wind Farm Scrapped in Response to Dogged Opposition
Wind Power: Just an Ugly ‘Hood Ornament’ on the Conventional Power System
**** As time marches on, the ability of the wind industry to 'hood'-wink power punters is running into a deluge of 'unhelpful' facts: here's some more from Michigan Capitol Confidential's Jack Spencer. Renewables Just a Hood Ornament on Fossil Fuel Power System You can’t have renewable energy without fossil fuels backing it up CapCon Jack … Continue reading Wind Power: Just an Ugly ‘Hood Ornament’ on the Conventional Power System
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