Category: Big wind industry

Why Irish Eyes Ain’t Smiling

The wind industry makes friends wherever it goes.  The Irish, renowned for their hospitality and love a good time – or “craic” – are being overrun by the subsidy driven monsters.  The Emerald Isle is starting to look more like a scene from the “War of the Worlds” ... than “The Quiet Man”. Happy they … Continue reading Why Irish Eyes Ain’t Smiling

Tony Abbott calls for REC fraud investigation

STT has been following the REC fraud at Waubra for some time.  Alby Schulz was on the warpath about Acciona's thievery back in February.  John Madigan has been hot on the trail as well. Joining the call to clawback some $80 million worth of RECs from the Spanish Wind Conquistadors is the Prime Ministerial hopeful, … Continue reading Tony Abbott calls for REC fraud investigation

American take on Wind Farm Scam

Reposted from American Thinker, May 10, 2013 The Faults, Fallacies and Failures of Wind Power Viv Forbes Wind power is not free. All natural energy resources such as coal, wind and sun appear "free" - no one has to incur costs to create them. But turning a "free" resource into usable electricity costs money for … Continue reading American take on Wind Farm Scam

Life in the “throw zone”

On one level, the images depicted in this video will provide many STT readers with a deep sense of satisfaction, tinged with joy, and bound with glee; or even what the Germans call "schadenfreude": the malicious glee that comes from witnessing another's downfall. **** **** On another level, for those poor souls stuck with these … Continue reading Life in the “throw zone”

Ron “The Boss” Boswell lays it down and says “fair go”

STT says that if common sense was apple pie it's clear that Senator Ron Boswell has had a double helping. Short in supply in this debate and, thanks to the infectious disease that is "greentard ideology", rarely reported, here is the mighty Queenslander dishing out common sense with knobs on. Ron also lays it on … Continue reading Ron “The Boss” Boswell lays it down and says “fair go”

No Blacker day for the Greens

Former MP and current adviser to the SA Labor Government, Peter Blacker gets a big vote from STT for talking sense yesterday about the negative impact on prime agricultural land from wind turbines. Here's the report on Blacker's "Green heresy", courtesy of Channel 7 News. On some planets he would be given the Award for … Continue reading No Blacker day for the Greens

Tony Abbott called on to scrap the REC & chase the REC fraud

STT champion and pin-up girl, Annie Gardner says it louder and better than most, so we say: “hats off”. At a meeting in Hamilton last week, Annie gave Tony Abbott a “heads-up” on the REC fraud going on at Waubra (which we’ll cover in another post soon). But never one to rest, here’s what Annie … Continue reading Tony Abbott called on to scrap the REC & chase the REC fraud

The RET & the REC: the anatomy of a National fraud

A little while ago one of our readers posted a comment including what would appear to be a fairly simple question, The Callous Wind wrote: I have a request for STT. Would you be able to please explain to us mere mortals, how the REC’s do actually work? There seems to be a lot of … Continue reading The RET & the REC: the anatomy of a National fraud

Well, bugger me, another piece of industry “spin” unravels

STT has enough material under the heading "wind industry lies" to fill a 12 Volume encyclopedia we plan to call "A Million-and-One Things Wind Farm Developers & Their Goons said."  Entries include howlers like: "turbines make the same noise as a fridge at 500m". The gullible can test that whopper by dropping an old Kelvinator … Continue reading Well, bugger me, another piece of industry “spin” unravels