Category: Big wind industry

The Battle for the Western Districts of Victoria is on

The Western Districts of Victoria is among the most productive and fertile grazing and agricultural territory in Australia.  In a good year - and there are plenty of those - it rains for nine months of the year and drips off the trees for the rest.  Set on deep, volcanic soils, the country around Port … Continue reading The Battle for the Western Districts of Victoria is on

Michael Cobb – He Gets It

Every once in a Blue Moon STT gets sent an article where the author actually understands the Australian energy market, the Renewable Energy Target AND the fiasco that is the great Australian wind power fraud. Well, the Moon just turned a delightful shade of Blue. Here's a cracking piece written by Michael Cobb, who - … Continue reading Michael Cobb – He Gets It

2014 – the Year STT goes “Viral”

STT is the site that wind scammers and their parasites just love to hate. In recent weeks we've been told about reports of STT's demise being posted daily on greentard blogs - like ruin-economy and yes2ruining-us. Well, reports of STT's "death" have been greatly exaggerated, to say the least. To the contrary, we're fast going … Continue reading 2014 – the Year STT goes “Viral”

Donna Laframboise: “Global Warming” – The Greatest Lie Ever Told: Pt 3

Donna Laframboise is a Canadian feminist, journalist, writer, and photographer – and is the author of “The Delinquent Teenager Who Was Mistaken for the World’s Top Climate Expert” (2011) - a book that has a pretty fair crack at the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.  Donna also runs a site called noconsensus.org - that attacks … Continue reading Donna Laframboise: “Global Warming” – The Greatest Lie Ever Told: Pt 3

Donna Laframboise: “Global Warming” – The Greatest Lie Ever Told: Pt 2

Donna Laframboise is a Canadian feminist, journalist, writer, and photographer – and is the author of “The Delinquent Teenager Who Was Mistaken for the World’s Top Climate Expert” (2011) - a book that has a pretty fair crack at the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.  Donna also runs a site called noconsensus.org - that attacks … Continue reading Donna Laframboise: “Global Warming” – The Greatest Lie Ever Told: Pt 2

Donna Laframboise: “Global Warming” – The Greatest Lie Ever Told: Pt 1

STT doesn't make a song and dance about the Old "Global Warming" Chestnut - we generally leave that to specialist bloggers on the topic. STT is usually content to load-up on the economic and environmental fraud that is wind power (see our post here). We start from the reasonable assumption that the only reason for … Continue reading Donna Laframboise: “Global Warming” – The Greatest Lie Ever Told: Pt 1

Giant Fans: the new Scottish “Croft Clearers”

**** In the Scottish Highlands and Islands “Crofting” was a common method of land use and tenure that was modeled along feudal lines; and was still common well into the 19th century.  Crofting continues, on a much smaller scale - the crofters these days usually need to earn cash incomes off farm to sustain them. … Continue reading Giant Fans: the new Scottish “Croft Clearers”

Vestas’ Danish Victims Lay Out the FACTS

In response to the National Wind Power Fraud Rally in June, struggling Danish fan maker, Vestas paid $millions to a crack team of spin doctors to invent a campaign aimed at winning back the “moral” high ground. It called its new public relations model “Act on Facts” - we covered some of their “facts” in … Continue reading Vestas’ Danish Victims Lay Out the FACTS

When the Wick Ain’t Worth the Candle

**** Giant fans: costly; unsightly; noisy; inefficient; pointless, because they can never reduce CO2 emissions; the cause of millions of bird and bat deaths each year; and built with rare earths, the mining and processing of which is turning China into a toxic wasteland - what’s not to like? Notwithstanding the growing list of dubious … Continue reading When the Wick Ain’t Worth the Candle

Tony Abbott’s Business Advisor, Maurice Newman says: “RET is killing manufacturing”

Maurice Newman was the former head of Deutsche Bank, the ABC and ASX so you’d think he might know a thing or two about the big end of town. When it comes to giant fans Maurice doesn’t mince his words: calling wind power “a crime against the people” (see our post here). Maurice has also … Continue reading Tony Abbott’s Business Advisor, Maurice Newman says: “RET is killing manufacturing”