**** In Denmark, Vestas is the wind industry. And like the wind industry everywhere, it's done its level best to infiltrate and influence every aspect of political and academic life: all aimed at preventing any pesky opposition to its plans to cover the planet with its giant fans. Vestas isn't afraid to cut all the … Continue reading Vestas Helps Engineer Sacking of Denmark’s Top Acoustic Professor, Henrik Møller
Category: Big wind industry
Can’t “Win” Support for your Wind Farm? Why Not Try Bribing the Locals
A blustery reception for wind turbines as locals voice their opposition Irish Examiner Michael Clifford 26 July 2014 An energy developer has Meath GAA onboard for its project, but local people are not so receptive to the plan, writes Special Correspondent Michael Clifford. THEY carried the pipe the day after Enda Kenny sat down with … Continue reading Can’t “Win” Support for your Wind Farm? Why Not Try Bribing the Locals
The Wind Industry is based on a Central, Endlessly Repeated Lie
*** Lunacy on sea: As Ministers agree to the world’s biggest wind farm off Brighton, has Britain ever succumbed to a more catastrophic folly? The Daily Mail Christopher Booker 2 August 2014 What should be our reaction to daft stories like the one recently reported in the Daily Mail about the 60ft wind turbine put … Continue reading The Wind Industry is based on a Central, Endlessly Repeated Lie
Pac Hydro’s Cape Bridgewater Wind Farm Victims Vindicated
Headache for residents after monitoring reveals bad vibes The Australian Graham Lloyd 2 August 2014 FOR the past two months, Melissa Ware’s 150-year-old stone-foundation house in the shadow of the Cape Bridgewater wind farm in Victoria has been wired to monitor sounds that cannot be heard easily by the human ear. Ware, who is partially … Continue reading Pac Hydro’s Cape Bridgewater Wind Farm Victims Vindicated
Angus Taylor: Community Backlash Brewing Over ACT Wind Farm Plan
*** Canberra’s costly carbon follies outdo even the Danes The Australian Angus Taylor 1 August 2014 AUSTRALIANS are learning the hard way that moral vanity comes at a high price. After many years of climate policy chaos, we know that most people want some action on climate change but they don’t want to waste money … Continue reading Angus Taylor: Community Backlash Brewing Over ACT Wind Farm Plan
More Australian Wind Power “FAILS”
**** Renewables in the doldrums The Australian Graham Lloyd 2 August 2014 A spell of calm weather exposes a fatal flaw in the case for wind power FOR Australia’s multi-billion-dollar renewable energy industry, marooned in the doldrums of investment uncertainty, the big calm before the renewable energy target review storm came last week. For two … Continue reading More Australian Wind Power “FAILS”
Lessons from Germany’s Wind Power Disaster
**** All lies and promises – the wind industry has finally been rumbled in Germany and is about to be shown the door in Australia. The wind industry and its parasites have been guilty of more than just a little hubris. Claiming to be able to deliver cheap, reliable sparks was always going to be … Continue reading Lessons from Germany’s Wind Power Disaster
Maurice Newman: NSW’s “Green” Dreaming is Nuts
**** California dreaming is nuts in NSW The Australian Maurice Newman 30 July 2014 There will be national fallout from our biggest state’s clean energy stance NSW Environment Minister Rob Stokes told a Clean Energy Week forum last week, “We are making NSW No 1 in energy and environmental policy.” He added: “When it comes … Continue reading Maurice Newman: NSW’s “Green” Dreaming is Nuts
Henry Ergas: the Mandatory RET Must Go Now
Greenhouse follies must end The Australian Henry Ergas 28 July 2014 Abbott must get rid of ineffective policies that hurt the economy THE carbon tax may have gone, but the players have not moved on. For the Greens, its resurrection is only a matter of time. Labor, ever reluctant to face realities, pretends to maintain … Continue reading Henry Ergas: the Mandatory RET Must Go Now
Wind Power Sends German Power Market Into Chaos
*** With the introduction of unreliable and intermittent wind power comes the risk of widespread blackouts, social and economic chaos. However, to avoid the consequences, grid managers in Germany are paying conventional generators huge premiums to compensate for wind power "outages" - and the costs of doing so are starting to bite - not that … Continue reading Wind Power Sends German Power Market Into Chaos
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