**** 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
Category: Big wind politics
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
Wind Industry Corruption in NSW: Planning Officer ‘Doctors’ Noise Impact Report to Get Project Approval
New South Wales is a hotbed of wind industry corruption, as Maurice Newman (the Business Adviser to former PM, Tony Abbott) laid plain during a recent interview with STT Champion, Alan Jones: Wind Industry Corruption in NSW: Maurice Newman Lifts the Lid Alan is back, this time with yet more detail on just how rotten … Continue reading Wind Industry Corruption in NSW: Planning Officer ‘Doctors’ Noise Impact Report to Get Project Approval
Ontario’s Wind Power Insanity Delivers Death Wish to Pilots
Is there anything to say in favour of these things? Not only insanely expensive and utterly pointless at every level, they pose a mortal danger to both man and beast. In the 20 years or so since they've spun into heavily subsidised 'action', the wind industry's has managed to clock up a fairly sizeable death … Continue reading Ontario’s Wind Power Insanity Delivers Death Wish to Pilots
Wind Industry Corruption: US Fish & Wildlife Push to Excuse Rampant Eagle Slaughter
**** The wind industry and its parasites have – from the outset – pitched these things as a “planet saving, clean, green and environmentally friendly technology”; which doesn’t quite gel with the wholesale slaughter of birds and bats. Let’s call it an “inconvenient truth” (see our post here). Were anyone caught shooting eagles or other … Continue reading Wind Industry Corruption: US Fish & Wildlife Push to Excuse Rampant Eagle Slaughter
Europe Squanders $1.2 Trillion on Wind/Solar Subsidies & Still CO2 Emissions Soar
If “saving” the planet is – as we are repeatedly told – all about reducing man-made emissions of an odourless, colourless, naturally occurring trace gas, essential for all life on earth – then European energy/environmental policy has manifestly failed. And what an expensive failure it is. In the following pieces, the delicious term 'irony' springs … Continue reading Europe Squanders $1.2 Trillion on Wind/Solar Subsidies & Still CO2 Emissions Soar
Australian Power Retailers Snub Wind & Turn to the Sun
STT has been pointing out for sometime now, the fact that Australia’s big 3 power retailers have been refusing to ‘play ball’ with beleaguered wind power cowboys, like near-bankrupt, Infigen and the union super fund backed disaster, Pacific Hydro. Commercial retailers have not entered any power purchase agreements with wind power outfits, since about November … Continue reading Australian Power Retailers Snub Wind & Turn to the Sun
PSST! Want to Make a Small Fortune? Throw a Large One at Wind Turbines
FAIL: Busted Wind Turbines Give College Whopping Negative 99.14% Return On Investment Watts up with that? Anthony Watts 27 April 2016 From the “it’s OK, we used other people’s money” department and Andrew Follet at The Daily Caller: *** Lake Land College recently announced plans to tear down broken wind turbines on campus, after the … Continue reading PSST! Want to Make a Small Fortune? Throw a Large One at Wind Turbines
Labor to Throw $200bn to the Wind: Electricity Bill Shorten’s Economic Suicide Pact Unpacked
**** In the cutting British satire, Extras, the hapless Andy Millman (Ricky Gervais) is always foiled by his gormless but lovable side-kick, Maggie Jacobs (Ashley Jensen). Maggie, when she’s not inadvertently ruining Andy’s romantic hopes and/or acting career prospects, poses puzzling rhetoricals such as “would you rather be trampled by elephants or eaten by lions?” … Continue reading Labor to Throw $200bn to the Wind: Electricity Bill Shorten’s Economic Suicide Pact Unpacked
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