Wind and solar have destroyed the ability of the market to signal price The Telegraph Rupert Darwall 7 March 2016 Before the election, high electricity prices made the Big Six energy companies everyone’s favourite whipping boys. A report by the competition watchdog exonerated them. Government-driven social, environmental and network costs were the main drivers of … Continue reading How Massively Subsidised Wind Power Destroys Power Markets & Economies
Category: Big wind politics
Wind Industry Howls ‘Wolf’ as Poles Finally Get a Few Half-Decent Wind Farm Rules
**** A week or so back we covered a Bloomberg article on new rules set to be imposed in Poland, with the predictable - we're "doomed" - response from the wind industry, its parasites and spruikers. Here's an analysis of what the new rules really mean. Polish Wind Industry 'Cries Wolf' at First Attempt of … Continue reading Wind Industry Howls ‘Wolf’ as Poles Finally Get a Few Half-Decent Wind Farm Rules
51 Ontario Towns & Municipalities Call For Wind Power Subsidies to End
Ontario is an economic and social disaster zone: set upon by corrupt wind-zealots, they have seen power prices spiral out of control; and whole communities destroyed, as thousands of these things have been speared into the most agriculturally productive part of Canada. Hundreds of hard-working family farmers have been forced to abandon homes and thousands … Continue reading 51 Ontario Towns & Municipalities Call For Wind Power Subsidies to End
Huron County to Formally Record Health Effects Caused by Wind Farm Noise & Vibration
**** When lawyers, and after them, historians, write up the story of how graft and corruption paved the way for the willful ignorance (by then viewed as malign acquiescence) of the political enablers of the great wind power fraud, whole chapters will be devoted to their deliberate efforts to prevent the evidence being gathered, that … Continue reading Huron County to Formally Record Health Effects Caused by Wind Farm Noise & Vibration
Germany: 60-Tonne Wind Turbine Rotor Crashes To Earth
**** 60-Tonne Wind Turbine Rotor Crashes To Earth NoTricksZone Pierre Gosselin 1 March 2016 The online SVZ here reported yesterday on a wind-turbine construction accident occurring in Southern Germany. Workers of the Hamburg-based Nordex company were operating a large hoisting crane by remote control as it lifted the 60-tonne wind turbine rotor assembly for mounting … Continue reading Germany: 60-Tonne Wind Turbine Rotor Crashes To Earth
Australia’s Macquarie Group JV Loses $66M: Furious Kenyan Locals Kill Outrageous Wind Power Project
**** Back in February last year we covered the story of how a wind farm developer's efforts to steal land from under the noses of Kenyan farmers led to a local uprising, that ended in the murder of an innocent teenage boy. Since then, local farmers have only intensified their rage in response to more … Continue reading Australia’s Macquarie Group JV Loses $66M: Furious Kenyan Locals Kill Outrageous Wind Power Project
Irish High Court Slams Cork Wind Farm
High Court overturns permission for Cork wind farm The Irish Times Mary Carolan 25 February 2016 Judge says process used by An Bord Pleanála did not comply with Irish law The High Court has overturned a grant of planning permission for a wind farm near Inchigeelagh, Co Cork. Mr Justice Bernard Barton ruled the permission … Continue reading Irish High Court Slams Cork Wind Farm
Wind Power is Built on Mountains of Coal & a Sea of Oil
**** The wind-worshipper rails at sites like ours, screaming - in a kind of hopeful hex - that we're backed by BIG Oil and BIG Coal and will, accordingly, rot in hell for our temerity in challenging their infantile world view. Maybe we will bunk-up down below in the next life, but that'll be due … Continue reading Wind Power is Built on Mountains of Coal & a Sea of Oil
Typically Bogus ‘Green’ Jobs Promise sees Texan Wind Power Outfit Sued for $2.7M
**** As the wind industry hoodwinked its way around the globe, one of the standard promises (well, more like bait for the more gullible fish in the pond), used to sucker in politicians was that, if (and only if) those in power were ready to sign over their constituents’ hard-won property rights, as well as … Continue reading Typically Bogus ‘Green’ Jobs Promise sees Texan Wind Power Outfit Sued for $2.7M
Australia’s Wind Industry Under Siege: LRET Subsidy Set to be Slashed (Again)
**** Subsidy won't generate target Australian Financial Review Ben Potter 10 March 2016 Less than a 10th of the wind and solar generation capacity required by the renewable energy target this decade is under construction, which could force the Turnbull government to renegotiate the controversial scheme with the opposition. Significant shortfalls under the cross-subsidy scheme … Continue reading Australia’s Wind Industry Under Siege: LRET Subsidy Set to be Slashed (Again)
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