Ontario is the place where the most bizarre energy policy in the world has seen thousands of these things speared into the backyards of homes – in the most agriculturally productive part of Canada. When we say “bizarre” we mean completely bonkers. Canada has one of the “cleanest” power generation mixes on the planet, with … Continue reading The Insane Cost of Ontario’s Energy Calamity: Consumers Forced to Pay $170 Billion for Pointless Wind Power
Category: Big wind politics
Injunction Sought to Protect Neighbours’ Health from Wind Farm Noise
**** A couple of weeks back we covered the story from South Plymouth, Massachusetts, where the Bourne Board of Health is asking selectmen to authorize Town Counsel Robert S. Troy to request a court injunction — expressly to halt the construction of a threatened wind-farm. The action is grounded in 'noise nuisance', which we covered … Continue reading Injunction Sought to Protect Neighbours’ Health from Wind Farm Noise
The Cost of Wind Power: Killing Jobs and Crushing Families – SA’s Biggest Smelter Under Threat with 750 Jobs at Risk
**** To call what South Australia’s Labor government has ‘gifted’ their constituents an energy ‘policy’, is to flatter it as involving some kind of genuine ‘design’. It’s an economic debacle, pure and simple. The current mess started under former Premier, Mike Rann – a former spin-doctor, whose relatives lined up at the wind power subsidy … Continue reading The Cost of Wind Power: Killing Jobs and Crushing Families – SA’s Biggest Smelter Under Threat with 750 Jobs at Risk
Climate Chicken Littles Nuzzle up to Nukes as Wind Power Love Affair Ends in Divorce
**** Let’s assume (as STT does, for the sake of argument) that the global warming/climate change Chicken Littles are right: the sky really is falling and it’s all CO2’s fault. So what the HELL are we doing pouring hundreds of billions of dollars into subsidies for wind power? By no stretch of the imagination can … Continue reading Climate Chicken Littles Nuzzle up to Nukes as Wind Power Love Affair Ends in Divorce
Queensland Government Cover Up: New Wind Farm Planning Code Deliberately Ignores its own Noise Expert’s Damning Advice
Hidden documents reveal expert advice on health dangers from wind farms ignored Wind Energy Queensland 11 December 2015 Right to information search reveals government noise expert’s advice withheld. The Queensland Government’s own noise expert has warned proposed rules for wind farms in the State could cause public health and environment problems. Bryan Lyons, spokesman for … Continue reading Queensland Government Cover Up: New Wind Farm Planning Code Deliberately Ignores its own Noise Expert’s Damning Advice
AFL’s CEO – Gillon McLachlan Hammers the ‘Desecration of his Country’ & the ‘Extreme Community Division’ Caused by Wind Farms
**** To Australian Aboriginals, the term ‘Country’ is not merely a reference simpliciter to ‘land’. It’s a far broader concept that embodies eternal time, space, spirit and ancestry - an amalgam of all these things - that describes the links between Australia’s first peoples and this beautiful Country. Those links may have been shaken by … Continue reading AFL’s CEO – Gillon McLachlan Hammers the ‘Desecration of his Country’ & the ‘Extreme Community Division’ Caused by Wind Farms
Germany’s Wind Farm Noise Victims Detail Their Daily Misery
**** One of the myths pedalled by Australia’s self-appointed wind farm noise, sleep and health ‘expert’ (a former tobacco advertising guru) is that the known and obvious adverse health impacts from incessant turbine generated low-frequency noise and infrasound are a cooked-up “phenomenon”, exclusive to the English speaking world. Trouble with that little tale is that’s … Continue reading Germany’s Wind Farm Noise Victims Detail Their Daily Misery
‘Democracy’ in Jackboots: Wind Industry’s Government Stooges Threaten to Ignore 83% Vote Against Wind Power
**** Remember all those glowing stories about wind power outfits being welcomed into rural communities with open arms? You know, tales about how farmers are dying to have turbines lined up all over their properties? How locals can’t wait to pick up some of the thousands of permanent, high paying jobs on offer? How developers … Continue reading ‘Democracy’ in Jackboots: Wind Industry’s Government Stooges Threaten to Ignore 83% Vote Against Wind Power
Britain’s Wind Power ‘Policy’: Betting on a Miracle
**** Britain’s energy policy: Betting on a miracle CAPX Rupert Darwall 1 December 2015 Ugly reality has broken into British energy policy. Last week’s speech by the climate and energy secretary Amber Rudd is a milestone that defines the end of the fantasy stage of the renewables fairy tale. Policy makers must now grapple with … Continue reading Britain’s Wind Power ‘Policy’: Betting on a Miracle
Bjørn Lomborg: Wind Power ‘Tree’ Symbolises Futility of Paris Climate Jamboree
**** As a baggage train of some 40,000 climate-cultists get set to jet their way home from Paris - burning up a gazillion gallons of (what they normally rail about as being atmosphere incinerating) kerosene - the fair question has to be asked: ‘and all for what?’ The belief that China and India were going … Continue reading Bjørn Lomborg: Wind Power ‘Tree’ Symbolises Futility of Paris Climate Jamboree
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