The Wind in the Willows (Kenneth Grahame) has been a childhood favourite for more than a century. The exploits of Toad, Rat, Mole and the elusive but respected Mr Badger, stand as an allegory of what is deemed worthy in the British concept of character, and their understanding of what constitutes good and bad manners. … Continue reading Wind in the Gallows: Study Shows Badgers Suffer Merciless Stress & Torment from Wind Turbine Noise & Vibration
Category: Big wind politics
Wind Industry Corruption Leaves Ontario with Nothing But Misery & a Whopping Bill
Ontario has been destroyed by a band of lunatics, headed up by Kathleen Wynne. Rocketing power prices - killing its manufacturers - and tens of thousands of these things killing rural communities, as to their peace, prosperity and cohesion are just some of the consequences of being over-run by wind-cultists. But, behind every political puppet, … Continue reading Wind Industry Corruption Leaves Ontario with Nothing But Misery & a Whopping Bill
Freefall: Wind Power Investment Collapses in Europe
In a 'what goes around comes around' kind of way, it's fitting that the great wind power fraud is taking European 'investors' - of the Energreen mold - to the cleaners. The subsidies have run out and, as night follows day, investors are racing to the exits - which brings the greatest Ponzi scheme of … Continue reading Freefall: Wind Power Investment Collapses in Europe
Kathleen Wynne’s Ontario Wind Power Fantasy Doubles Power Prices
**** Ontario was, once upon a time, an agricultural and manufacturing power house. Alas, the former pursuit has been smashed by plummeting property values and sonic torture, making thousands of farm homes uninhabitable; the latter endeavour has been demolished by power costs that have risen 108% due to the fantasy of trying to rely on … Continue reading Kathleen Wynne’s Ontario Wind Power Fantasy Doubles Power Prices
Panic Erupts: Infigen Set to Offload Worn-Out Australian Wind Farms to Even ‘Greater Fools’
**** In the hard-hitting Danish docu-drama, Follow the Money, the Armani-suited executives of Energreen play a game of cat and mouse with the Fraud Squad, pumping up the value of their wind farm ‘assets’, while erasing anything from their books that investors might reasonably conclude were liabilities. Some viewers might call it ‘creative accounting’, others … Continue reading Panic Erupts: Infigen Set to Offload Worn-Out Australian Wind Farms to Even ‘Greater Fools’
South Australia: Proving Wind Power a Recipe for Social & Economic Disaster
The image above is taken from the Collins Picture Dictionary under the definition of 'chaos': complete confusion and disorder : a state in which behavior and events are not controlled by anything. To be fair, South Australia's power supply is 'controlled' ...... 'controlled' by the vagaries of the weather, that is. Renewables alone a recipe … Continue reading South Australia: Proving Wind Power a Recipe for Social & Economic Disaster
Europe Delivers Wind Industry Nothing But Doom & Gloom
And the trend continues.... WARNING: in considering the content of this post you may feel an overwhelming sense of schadenfreude. Gone with the wind: Nordic alternative energy turns stagnant Sputnik news 6 May 2016 Despite renewable energy sources being heavily hyped as a sustainable solution to humanity's growing energy problem, actual support for the green power … Continue reading Europe Delivers Wind Industry Nothing But Doom & Gloom
German Wind Farm Backlash Begins: Bavaria’s High Court Confirms 2KM Setback Rule
**** A couple of weeks back we ran a story on the Bavarian government's new mandatory setback rule (10 times the height: 10-H) which, with turbines towering 200m, means a minimum distance of 2km from homes. In closely settled Bavaria that rule spells the end for hundreds of proposed projects; and, coupled with the German … Continue reading German Wind Farm Backlash Begins: Bavaria’s High Court Confirms 2KM Setback Rule
Robert Bryce: the Insane Cost of Renewable Pipe Dreams – a Banquet of Consequences
Robert Bryce gets it. In the video above and the article below, Robert details the insane cost of attempting to power economies with sunshine and breezes; and does what policy makers have failed or refused to do: he connects the bitter consequences, born by the many, with the follies of the feckless few. Issues 2016: … Continue reading Robert Bryce: the Insane Cost of Renewable Pipe Dreams – a Banquet of Consequences
It’s a Fraud: The Wind Industry’s ‘Lies, Damned Lies and Statistics’ Exposed
American Pensmith, Mark Twain's quip about there being "three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics" fits neatly with the propaganda pedalled by the wind industry, its parasites and spruikers. This dissection of what America's Wind Energy Association dishes up on a daily basis is as good as it gets, in tearing away wind industry … Continue reading It’s a Fraud: The Wind Industry’s ‘Lies, Damned Lies and Statistics’ Exposed