Category: Big wind industry

Ewbank made to U-turn

One of STT's favourite "greentard" bloggers, and the wind farm developers' most ardent apologist, got short shrift on King Island last week at the meeting where locals gathered to hear some of the facts, instead of the spin usually delivered by Ewbank and his Overlords. You'll remember the way the CERES Stormtroopers treated the Yorke … Continue reading Ewbank made to U-turn

Winning hearts and minds? These people have no shame.

Normandy faces new assaultBY:DAVID CHAZAN, PARIS From: The Times May 02, 2013 12:00AMEVERY year, thousands of people make a pilgrimage to the D-Day beaches in Normandy to remember the Allied troops who landed there to liberate France from Nazi occupation.Almost 70 years after the assault that changed the course of World War II, however, the … Continue reading Winning hearts and minds? These people have no shame.

Cyclone Tracey – an ill wind blows for “I love Nacelles Napthine”

Poor old Denis.  The Premier of Victoria really has got off to a flying start. He has already pinned his colours to a 100m turbine tower at Macarthur, enraging the long suffering residents there.  His pathetic showing at Macarthur, as reported in The Standard has only helped to spur the rent-seekers and subsidy addicts to whinge … Continue reading Cyclone Tracey – an ill wind blows for “I love Nacelles Napthine”

The “Squirrel Grip”: Stockyard Hill Style

From the battle hardened members of STT we know that you are wasting your breath when you spend time trying to talk sense into State Governments, their Planning Departments and EPAs - sure enough they make decisions that ruin many a great community, but they ain't "the money" - that all comes out of Canberra … Continue reading The “Squirrel Grip”: Stockyard Hill Style

Battle to stop TasWind plan to curdle King Island cream

An article from Sharon Twomey from Stock and Land HIGH levels of infrasound was one of the key subjects discussed by farmers at a TasWind community meeting in King Island last Friday. The community meeting is just one of many in relation to a 600-megawatt wind farm proposed for the island by State-owned company Hydro … Continue reading Battle to stop TasWind plan to curdle King Island cream

This is the sound of the wheels starting to come off the wind industry

Battleboro Reformer, Vermont Thursday April 25, 2013 MONTPELIER -- A lobbyist for an industry group supporting wind power apologized to a Vermont Senate committee on Wednesday after a witness she brought in called health concerns connected with wind power "hoo-hah," nonsense and propaganda. Gabrielle Stebbins, executive director of Renewable Energy Vermont, called the remarks of … Continue reading This is the sound of the wheels starting to come off the wind industry

The campaign of hate against Sarah Laurie

International anti wind industry campaigners have called the vilification of Waubra Foundation CEO Sarah Laurie a "campaign of hate" and alerted Australian police to concerns for her safety. An organisation based in Spain, the World Council for Nature, as well as the North American Platform Against Wind Power contacted the Commissioner of Police in Tasmania … Continue reading The campaign of hate against Sarah Laurie

Lawsuits against wind companies and landowners … just a matter of time

News from Canada that should alarm wind companies and turbine landowners everywhere. CNW/April 23, 2013 - In a decision released late yesterday, the Ontario Superior Court of Justice has determined that while residents of Clearview Township cannot bring claims for a proposed industrial wind project at this time, the ruling is "without prejudice to the … Continue reading Lawsuits against wind companies and landowners … just a matter of time

The wind war: men in suits against women on farms and …

This is disturbing footage. Compare Denis Napthine, smiling and in his suit, repeating the fraudulent jobs mantra, with Anne Gardner talking about the affects of Macarthur wind farm on her family and her community. "We're desperate," she says. "We don't know what to do. We can't live in our homes and we can't go on." … Continue reading The wind war: men in suits against women on farms and …