Remember all the guff about Germans loving wind power to bits? And stories about how Germany is the wind power pioneer, and that its cheerful rural volk are 100% behind having thousands of these things speared all over their bucolic homeland? No? We've forgotten them too. German wind farm neighbours suffer from incessant turbine generated … Continue reading German Opposition to Wind Farms Spawns New Political Party
Category: Big wind politics
Bjørn Lomborg: Why Africa Needs Fossil Fuels, Not Wind Power & Wishes
**** Why Africa Needs Fossil Fuels Project Syndicate Bjørn Lomborg 22 January 2016 SANTIAGO – Africa is the world’s most “renewable” continent when it comes to energy. In the rich world, renewables account for less than a tenth of total energy supplies. The 900 million people of Sub-Saharan Africa (excluding South Africa) get 80% of their … Continue reading Bjørn Lomborg: Why Africa Needs Fossil Fuels, Not Wind Power & Wishes
Mexican Wind Farm Madness: Wind Industry Crime & Corruption Crush an Ancient Culture
*** Renata Bessi is a freelance journalist and contributor the Americas Program and Desinformémonos. She has published articles in Brazilian media: The Trecheiro newspaper magazine, Página 22, Repórter Brasil, Rede Brasil Atual, Brasil de Fato, Outras Palavras. Santiago Navarro is an economist, a freelance journalist, photographer and contributor to the Americas Program, Desinformémonos and SubVersiones. Together they … Continue reading Mexican Wind Farm Madness: Wind Industry Crime & Corruption Crush an Ancient Culture
Wind Industry Loses Support of Lunatic Fringe: Green-Left Blog ‘New Matilda’ Turns Against the Wind Power Fraud
**** When the following piece crossed STT’s inbox, the editor thought it to be some kind of April fool’s joke, delivered a few months early. But, no. Knock us down with a feather, the article that follows did, in fact, appear on ‘New Matilda’ - a politically correct, hard-‘green’-left bastion for all things cuddly and … Continue reading Wind Industry Loses Support of Lunatic Fringe: Green-Left Blog ‘New Matilda’ Turns Against the Wind Power Fraud
SA Wind Farm War: AFL CEO – Gillon McLachlan – Launches Litigation Against NZ’s Trustpower
**** New Zealand’s Trustpower love throwing their weight around – provided the targets of their violence and thuggery are 79 Year Old Pensioners and Disabled Farmers. Now, these delightful characters have a real fight on their hands. Gillon McLachlan is as well-heeled as he is passionate about his beloved property, Rosebank - the magnificent range … Continue reading SA Wind Farm War: AFL CEO – Gillon McLachlan – Launches Litigation Against NZ’s Trustpower
Vermonters in Full-Scale Open Rebellion Against Planned Wind Turbine Roll-Out
**** Vermont is the place where dreams of peace and tranquility come true. Rolling waves of verdant hills, interspersed with fertile valleys and filled with a tenacious band that endure bitter winters and short bursts of what those in America's North-East think passes for 'Summer': that's Vermont. But the element that's brewed to the surface … Continue reading Vermonters in Full-Scale Open Rebellion Against Planned Wind Turbine Roll-Out
The Economy Crushing Consequences of Massively Subsidised Wind Power
Reaping the carbon policy harvest Catallaxy Files Alan Moran 18 January 2016 For five years, Tata, the Indian firm that owns what used to be British Steel has been warning that energy costs in Britain are squeezing competitiveness. Previous reductions have accelerated in 2015 with a 15 per cent cut in jobs. Successive UK governments … Continue reading The Economy Crushing Consequences of Massively Subsidised Wind Power
Bankers & Investors Close Ranks & Doom Wind Industry to Death By A Thousand Cuts
**** Earlier this week we looked at how Australia’s big power retailers have turned their backs to the wind to face the Sun, instead. Commercial retailers (we don’t count the ACT Government) haven’t entered any Power Purchase Agreements with wind power outfits since November 2012; and, we hear, have determined not to enter any more … Continue reading Bankers & Investors Close Ranks & Doom Wind Industry to Death By A Thousand Cuts
Wind Industry Peopled by Career Criminals: Convicted Felon Launches Ludicrous Defamation Claim Against Opponents
The wind industry seems to attract a particular class of bloke, in much the same way that the Prohibition era drew lots of heavy-set Italians to the Mob. Maybe that seemingly endless stream of massive subsidies filched from taxpayers and power consumers generates the same allure as festering dung does for swarms of flies? Whatever … Continue reading Wind Industry Peopled by Career Criminals: Convicted Felon Launches Ludicrous Defamation Claim Against Opponents
Australian Power Retailers Deliver Fatal Blow to Wind Industry with Mass Solar Roll-Out
**** 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 … Continue reading Australian Power Retailers Deliver Fatal Blow to Wind Industry with Mass Solar Roll-Out
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