Over the last few weeks there has been an uptick in chatter about long dormant wind farm projects being resurrected, which has more to do with anxious developers hoping to offload their projects than any kind of renewed confidence in Australia’s precarious renewable energy policies. In the main, this rush of panicked activity is about … Continue reading First Strike: Communities Threatened by Wind Farms Gathering Own Noise Data to Later Sue Turbine Hosts & Developers in Nuisance
Category: Big wind politics
People Power-Up: Kenyan Government Shuts Down Wind Power Outfit’s Illegal Land Grab
Stealing land is, apparently, seen as good business practice by the wind industry; wherever it goes, Africa no exception. In Africa it’s able to profit from long-held animosity between tribes and racial groups, exploiting old rivalries in its quest to wrest control over the land its needs to spear these things all over African soil. … Continue reading People Power-Up: Kenyan Government Shuts Down Wind Power Outfit’s Illegal Land Grab
UK Government Conceals Staggering Cost of Wind Power Subsidies
As STT keeps pointing out, it is the staggering cost of subsidising intermittent and unreliable wind power (for which there is no market in the absence of Soviet era mandates) that ultimately destroys the wind industry. Quite apparently aware of that fact, the UK government has sought to keep the lid on the figures which … Continue reading UK Government Conceals Staggering Cost of Wind Power Subsidies
South Australia’s Ridiculous Wind Power Push Driving Business to Bankruptcy: Power Prices Triple (Again)
*** In Australia’s so-called wind power capital, South Australia, its hapless Labor government is crowing about having reached its ludicrous 50% renewable energy target. However, the cost of that vanity project is crippling what remains of South Australia’s productive enterprise. In our recent post - Economic Carnage: SA’s Rocketing Power Prices Crippling Miners, Bakers & … Continue reading South Australia’s Ridiculous Wind Power Push Driving Business to Bankruptcy: Power Prices Triple (Again)
Undeniable Proof: Wind Turbine Noise Causes Serious Adverse Health Effects
A couple of years back, STT produced a timeline which highlighted how the wind industry and its pet acoustic consultants managed to set up 'rules' which have no relevance to the noise impacts experienced by wind farm neighbours and under which wind power outfits could ride roughshod over rural communities with complete impunity. That post … Continue reading Undeniable Proof: Wind Turbine Noise Causes Serious Adverse Health Effects
Victory in Vermont: Community Defenders Crush Wind Power Outfit’s Plan to Destroy Pristine Mountain Range
*** STT has covered the fight by Vermonters to save their pristine Green Mountains from the scourge of industrial wind turbines, many times. In this post we share in their delight, as they celebrate their successful battle to save the Herrick Mountain range in Ira and Poultney, next to Birdseye Mountain from 60 of these … Continue reading Victory in Vermont: Community Defenders Crush Wind Power Outfit’s Plan to Destroy Pristine Mountain Range
Subsidised Suicide: Wind Power Delivers Nothing But Rocketing Power Prices & Blackouts
*** In this pair of pearlers, James Delingpole spans the globe: firstly detailing the growing and staggering cost of subsidised wind power in Britain; and then turning his attention Downunder to the disaster that is Australia's wind power capital, South Australia. Post-Brexit Britain Wants To Escape Its EU Renewables Targets. About Time Too Breitbart James … Continue reading Subsidised Suicide: Wind Power Delivers Nothing But Rocketing Power Prices & Blackouts
Australia’s Renewable Energy Disaster Was Both Predictable & Avoidable
*** In this collection from Quadrant, Jo Nova and The Australian one solid theme emerges: Australia's energy crisis is entirely self-inflicted and thus it was perfectly avoidable. Among those who saw it coming was Matt Zema - then chief of the Australian Energy Market Operator, who shuffled off this mortal coil way too soon. Before … Continue reading Australia’s Renewable Energy Disaster Was Both Predictable & Avoidable
Renewables Retreat: China Slaps Ban on New Wind Power Projects
Plenty of what Westerners know about the Middle Kingdom is more marvellous myth than solid fact. Fitting squarely within that category is the idea peddled by wind worshippers that China is working at a furious pace to carpet itself with millions of these things. In truth, instead of squandering billions on a technology that was … Continue reading Renewables Retreat: China Slaps Ban on New Wind Power Projects
Australia’s Runaway Renewable Energy Crisis: the Product of Government, Not Market Failure
*** Governments' renewable energy push to blame for crisis The Australian Financial Review Ben Potter 7 April 2017 The energy sector is in disarray because of government failure, not market failure, former Productivity Commission chairman Gary Banks says. He told Infrastructure Partnerships Australia the spectacle of South Australian Premier Jay Weatherill blaming the private sector … Continue reading Australia’s Runaway Renewable Energy Crisis: the Product of Government, Not Market Failure
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