**** Time is fast running out for STT’s favourite whipping boys, Infigen. Bleeding cash (it backed up a $55 million loss in 2011/12 with an $80 million loss, last financial year) the struggling outfit - formerly known as Babcock and Brown - is scrambling to get development approvals for all of its projects so they … Continue reading Jonathan Upson: Thuggery, Bullying and Harassment – just another day at the office
Category: Big wind industry
Muriel Blair: Better to Die on your Feet than Live on your Knees
Canadians are in the midst of a pitched battle to save what’s left of their – previously – idyllic Ontario from the clutches of wind weasels like Next Terror. STT gave one of their natural born leaders, Esther Wrightman a wrap up in this post. Well, Muriel Blair is keen to encourage the growing band … Continue reading Muriel Blair: Better to Die on your Feet than Live on your Knees
Texan Turbine Hosts Declare War on Developers
**** Texans are said to ride a little taller in the saddle than most. Their swagger and independence goes back to the very beginning of the Lone Star State in 1836. In 1835 Texans went to war with the Mexican government, fighting a series of pitched battles and bloody skirmishes ending in April 1836 - … Continue reading Texan Turbine Hosts Declare War on Developers
Who to believe: Waubra Grazier, Carl Stepnell or fully paid up wind power advocates?
**** STT hears that the Head Boy has taken a personal interest in the wind farm health inquiry and is keen to make sure that only the best of the best are involved in the task and that there's a bucket of cash to pay them. And about time, too. Acciona’s non-compliant Waubra wind farm … Continue reading Who to believe: Waubra Grazier, Carl Stepnell or fully paid up wind power advocates?
Barry Funfar: A Damaged Marine Forsaken by his own Country
**** The US Marines are renowned for their do or die bravado. Their motto, Semper Fidelis (“always faithful”) marks them out for their bond of loyalty to fellow Marines and – as a band of brothers – for their tenacity in battle and courage under fire. Australia owes more than just a little debt to … Continue reading Barry Funfar: A Damaged Marine Forsaken by his own Country
Melissa Ware: “Please Tony, Save Our Souls”
**** Melissa Ware is one of Pac Hydro’s numerous tragic victims at Cape Bridgewater, Victoria - where the Labor/Union backed outfit - run by former union heavy Gary Weaven - runs another non-compliant wind farm that’s been driving the neighbours to hell and back for over five years now (see our post here). Here is … Continue reading Melissa Ware: “Please Tony, Save Our Souls”
Hamish Cumming: Victorian Government engaged in “Fraud on a Grand Scale”
**** There are few campaigners who can match Victorian Western District farmer and grazier, Hamish Cumming for courage and sheer determination. Hamish is a true environmentalist – his love of endangered brolgas and his sterling efforts to prevent them being sliced and diced by giant fans, has made him a true Victorian legend. Hamish has … Continue reading Hamish Cumming: Victorian Government engaged in “Fraud on a Grand Scale”
Europe Ditches Crazy Wind Power Targets
**** It seems the European member states are fast catching up with the insane costs of their efforts to cover every inch of their turf in giant fans. Now they want out. As Oxford don, Dieter Helm pointed out (see this post) “wind power is staggeringly expensive” and “among the most expensive ways of marginally … Continue reading Europe Ditches Crazy Wind Power Targets
Alan Moran: Wind Power’s a Costly Failure
**** Alan Moran has been out to “terminate” Australia's pointless and ludicrously expensive Renewable Energy Target for some time (see our post here). Well, you can’t keep a good man down and Alan’s back - this time dishing it up in the lefty business rag, the Australian Financial Review. Renewables are just a power failure … Continue reading Alan Moran: Wind Power’s a Costly Failure
When The Party’s Over
Built on a fat pile of subsidies filched from unwitting taxpayers and power consumers - and forced on customers by Stalinist edicts so outrageous that they would've surprised George Orwell with their reach and audacity - wind power is all set to get the boot in Europe. But the fan scamming leeches that have grown … Continue reading When The Party’s Over
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