STT has just gorged on two episodes of what is presented as well crafted drama, but which to STT followers will play out like a hard-hitting documentary. Australia’s SBS started screening ‘Follow the Money’ a couple of weeks ago, the plot-line for Episode 1 is described as follows: Mads, a police detective, is called out … Continue reading ‘Follow the Money’: Hard-Hitting Danish Drama Documents Wind Industry Corruption, Australian Sequel Promised
Category: Big wind politics
The Foul Stench in Falmouth: Wind Industry Corruption Runs Riot
As it goes in Falmouth, the wind industry goes everywhere: lying, bullying, bribery and good old fashioned fraud is the order of the day. Local boy, Frank Haggerty digs the dirt where the popular press fear to tread. Falmouth wind turbines corruption blows out of control Wind Action Frank Haggerty 1 May 2016 The Falmouth … Continue reading The Foul Stench in Falmouth: Wind Industry Corruption Runs Riot
US Wind Power Output Collapse: What Happens When the Wind Don’t Blow
Rock-a-bye baby, on the treetop, When the wind blows, the cradle will rock, When the bough breaks, the cradle will fall, And down will come baby, cradle and all. When your power generation 'system' depends on the whim of the Wind Gods, results can differ from the operators' professed claims. In the US, the Gods … Continue reading US Wind Power Output Collapse: What Happens When the Wind Don’t Blow
Wind Industry Corruption in NSW: Maurice Newman Lifts the Lid
Maurice Newman was the former head of Deutsche Bank, the ABC and ASX so you’d think he might know a thing or two about economics and business. Maurice doesn’t mince his words about these things: calling wind power “a crime against the people” (see our post here). Maurice has also previously made the connection between … Continue reading Wind Industry Corruption in NSW: Maurice Newman Lifts the Lid
Climate Change Probably Won’t Kill You, But Having No Power Certainly Will
**** When we see the term 'AGW', we understand those that propound it to hold “global warming” as an irrefutable fact. It is, however, a theory with which there is only one problem: and that’s the evidence. Even the most hysterical have been forced to accept the fact that global surface temperatures have not budged … Continue reading Climate Change Probably Won’t Kill You, But Having No Power Certainly Will
Common Sense Prevails: Poland to Ban Wind Power
Over-run by these things, faced with thousand of furious neighbours demanding an end to the onslaught, and spiralling power costs, Poland has mounted an enormous about face: where wind power was the flavour of the month for a year or two, it's about to be targeted with an outright ban. WARNING: in following this piece … Continue reading Common Sense Prevails: Poland to Ban Wind Power
The Colossal Cost of Intermittent & Unreliable Wind Power
**** There are 3 electricity essentials – that the power source and its delivery to homes and businesses be: 1) reliable; 2) secure; and 3) affordable. Which means that wind power – a wholly weather dependent power source, that can’t be stored and costs 3-4 times the cost of conventional power – scores NIL on … Continue reading The Colossal Cost of Intermittent & Unreliable Wind Power
South Australia – Wind Powered Train Wreck: Power Supply Chaos Strands Thousands of Commuters
South Australia's wind powered economy is a picture of reliability (see above and below). In its capital, Adelaide, for 2 days in row (28 and 29 April) thousands of hopeful commuters were left to their own devices, as wild variations in wind power output wrecked the power supply to its Seaford/Tonsley electric train line. We'll … Continue reading South Australia – Wind Powered Train Wreck: Power Supply Chaos Strands Thousands of Commuters
How Wind Power Outfits ‘Grease’ Their Way to Planning Approvals
Every politician has a price, and the wind industry has the uncanny ability of naming it and, when the need arises, stumping it up. Not necessarily in brown paper bags, though - so-called 'political donations' often do the 'trick'. But there have been plenty of cases where outright bribery has been employed to put the … Continue reading How Wind Power Outfits ‘Grease’ Their Way to Planning Approvals
The Staggering Cost of Pointless Wind Power: Can Australia Avoid Economic Suicide?
South Australia has earned the unenviable title of Australia’s ‘Wind Power Capital’. For its sins it has seen power prices rocket (the forward price, at $90 per MWh is more than double its neighbour Victoria’s) and unemployment with it: worse is yet to come, on both scores. Then there’s the grid instability and state-wide blackouts … Continue reading The Staggering Cost of Pointless Wind Power: Can Australia Avoid Economic Suicide?
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