The good Senator from Victoria, John “Marshall” Madigan is on fire. Having skewered the former tobacco advertising guru - who claims to be an “expert” on well, just about everything (see our post here) - the Marshall has just launched an Exocet missile at the seedy world of hard-green-left politics and the big corporate interests … Continue reading The Tangled Web: John Madigan Exposes the Greens as a Paid-Up Wind Industry Front
Category: Big wind industry
Senator Chris Back: Time to Kill the Mandatory RET
**** WA Liberal Senator, Chris Back launched a stinging attack on the wind industry during a speech in the Federal Senate, yesterday. Responding to a cacophony of wind industry rent seeker bleating, Chris has smashed headlong into three of the wind industry’s greatest myths. The first is that any alteration to the mandatory Renewable Energy … Continue reading Senator Chris Back: Time to Kill the Mandatory RET
UK’s Wind Industry Buys British Medical Association; Aims to Silence Medicos
In an all too familiar tale, the British Medical Association has been co-opted by the wind industry and is now just another advocate for the great wind power fraud. The same has happened in Australia with the: Australian Medical Association (see our posts here and here and here and here); Public Health Association; (see our … Continue reading UK’s Wind Industry Buys British Medical Association; Aims to Silence Medicos
US Judge Orders Lake Wind’s Noisy Turbines to be Shut Down – AGAIN!
**** Back in February, a Michigan Judge ordered wind power outfit, Consumer Energy to produce a plan to rid its Lake Winds wind farm of excessive noise levels (see our post here). It elected not to; and, instead, appealed that decision. Once again, the court found that noise levels from the operator’s turbines were well … Continue reading US Judge Orders Lake Wind’s Noisy Turbines to be Shut Down – AGAIN!
Nina Pierpont Warns Against An Entirely Avoidable Turkish Wind Farm Disaster
NINA PIERPONT, M.D., Ph.D. June 30, 2014 Ms. Esen Fatma Cesme Belediyesi (Municipality) İnönü Mah. 2001 Sk. No: 2 Çeşme / İZMİR Turkey Dear Ms. Kabadayi-Whiting, I write to you at the request of Madeleine Kura, who tells me the charming, historical town of Cesme is about to have half a dozen 3 MW industrial … Continue reading Nina Pierpont Warns Against An Entirely Avoidable Turkish Wind Farm Disaster
Brits Being Fleeced for £billions by Offshore Wind Farm Outfits
Britain’s political betters have set it up for one enormous gamble. Britain is wagering its entire economic future on its – out of control – wind power boondoggle. Back in January, The Economist reported on the INSANE cost of delivering offshore wind power – where generators are guaranteed obscene returns – being able to charge … Continue reading Brits Being Fleeced for £billions by Offshore Wind Farm Outfits
Tony Abbott: RET a Threat to Jobs in All Industries (not just Aluminum Smelters)
**** Over the last week or two the press has been giving a fair bit of coverage to the fact that there are 25 Coalition Members who are trying to find a “Goldilocks solution” to the disaster that is the mandatory Renewable Energy Target. The group - which is being directed by Ian “Macca” Macfarlane … Continue reading Tony Abbott: RET a Threat to Jobs in All Industries (not just Aluminum Smelters)
Germans Finally Take the Axe to Wind Power Subsidies
**** Germany’s renewable policy – referred to as the “Energiewende” – has seen €billions in power consumer/taxpayer subsidies thrown at wind and solar power at the expense of German industry, manufacturing and families. Skyrocketing renewables driven power prices are sending once competitive manufacturers and industries to the USA to benefit from energy made cheap by … Continue reading Germans Finally Take the Axe to Wind Power Subsidies
Renegade PUP – Jacqui Lambie – Heralds Demise of the Mandatory RET
The credibility of any political party pronouncing any policy position is directly proportional to the unity demonstrated by elected members within that party: Politics 101. Barely a week has passed since big Clive Palmer announced that his Palmer United Party (PUP) would use its balance of power in the Senate to block any changes whatsoever … Continue reading Renegade PUP – Jacqui Lambie – Heralds Demise of the Mandatory RET
A “Sweet” Renewable Future for FNQ: or, “Is there Method in Palmer’s Madness”?
**** As STT has already pointed out, retaining the Clean Energy Finance Corporation and the mandatory RET makes no sense for a political party which helped to kill the “carbon” tax (with no ETS to replace it) because of the punishment it caused to businesses and households through spiralling electricity bills. Since big Clive’s announcement, … Continue reading A “Sweet” Renewable Future for FNQ: or, “Is there Method in Palmer’s Madness”?
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