What Kills the Australian Wind Industry: A $45 Billion Federal Power Tax

**** The wind industry in Australia is doomed. Australia’s commercial lending institutions know it (calling in their loans and refusing to lend for any new wind farms). The wind industry knows it – hence the big players’ frantic efforts to ditch their wind farms, cut and run – although these fire sales are as much … Continue reading What Kills the Australian Wind Industry: A $45 Billion Federal Power Tax

Wind Power: Not ‘Cheap’, Not ‘Clean’ and Not ‘Green’

The central, endlessly repeated lie upon which the wind industry seeks to ‘justify’ the colossal and endless subsidies upon which it critically depends; the destruction of wind farm neighbours’ health, wealth and happiness; and the slaughter of millions of birds and bats, is that wind power causes substantial reductions of CO2 emissions in the electricity … Continue reading Wind Power: Not ‘Cheap’, Not ‘Clean’ and Not ‘Green’

Want Insane Power Prices & Mass Blackouts? Then Wind Power’s your ‘Answer’

**** The true cost of wind power is insane. Californians – victims of an early burst of ‘wind’ pay fully 40% more than the US average for power: California’s Wind ‘Powered’ Dream Turns to Nightmare: Power Prices 40% Higher than US Average South Australians dwell in Australia’s economically dismal ‘wind power capital’. Their attempt to … Continue reading Want Insane Power Prices & Mass Blackouts? Then Wind Power’s your ‘Answer’

Falmouth’s Fiasco: 8 Years in the Slammer for Bent Politician Responsible for Massachusetts’ Wind Power Disaster

**** 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? … Continue reading Falmouth’s Fiasco: 8 Years in the Slammer for Bent Politician Responsible for Massachusetts’ Wind Power Disaster

Dr Sarah Laurie Hits Wind Industry’s Usual Suspects – Ketan Joshi, Ken McAlpine, Simon Chapman & Peter Hannam for Malicious Lies

**** Dr Sarah Laurie has been the voice for rural communities set upon by the wind industry. For over 5 years, she has been advocating for an Australian ‘fair go’ for people trying to get a decent night’s sleep in their own homes; and, to that end, has relentlessly sought to get relevant, meaningful and … Continue reading Dr Sarah Laurie Hits Wind Industry’s Usual Suspects – Ketan Joshi, Ken McAlpine, Simon Chapman & Peter Hannam for Malicious Lies

Spain Puts its Economy Destroying Wind Industry to the Sword: ZERO MWs Installed in 2015

España launched into a subsidy-drenched, wind rush almost 20 years ago; for which it’s been lionized by wind-worshippers, worldwide. But its effort to conquer the wind and wallow in taxpayers’ (forced) largesse wasn’t confined to its own sunny climes. Like the Conquistadors of old, its wind power outfits launched off to all points, in search … Continue reading Spain Puts its Economy Destroying Wind Industry to the Sword: ZERO MWs Installed in 2015

Cost of Wind Power Outstrips Coal, Gas, Hydro & Nukes by a Country Mile

Wind worshippers continue to make wild claims about wind power already being “free” – and, apparently, getting cheaper all the time. Although, it appears that 'selling' a product with no commercial value (apart from the massive subsidies it attracts) is an unwinnable battle. Even the merest mention of a cut to subsidies has the wind … Continue reading Cost of Wind Power Outstrips Coal, Gas, Hydro & Nukes by a Country Mile

Wind Industry’s CO2 Emission Reduction Claims a ‘Cloak of Deception’

**** Vermont Renewable Energy Program Increases State’s Carbon Footprint Littleton Record Dr. Ron Holland 17 September 2015 In 2005 the Vermont Legislature passed renewable energy legislation establishing the SPEED program. SPEED was repealed in 2015 with legislation initially called RESET. The name RESET has been dropped as leaders thought that the name implied that SPEED … Continue reading Wind Industry’s CO2 Emission Reduction Claims a ‘Cloak of Deception’

Energy Minister, Josh Frydenberg Cops a Well-Earned Serve from Alan Jones & Victoria’s Wind Farm Victims

**** In late 2015, any one of our political betters caught paying lip-service to the wind industry can be fairly branded “pig ignorant”; or, if not just willfully blind to the greatest economic and environmental fraud of all time, then a “piggy with his trotters firmly planted in the subsidy trough”. The wind industry is … Continue reading Energy Minister, Josh Frydenberg Cops a Well-Earned Serve from Alan Jones & Victoria’s Wind Farm Victims

The Wind Industry: After 30 Years, It’s Time to Remove the Training Wheels

**** At an economic level, subsidising the production of a good or the provision of a service makes sense where there is complete market failure, such that the good or service will never be supplied (or only at a price which is practically un-affordable to the majority of consumers); and where the total benefit to … Continue reading The Wind Industry: After 30 Years, It’s Time to Remove the Training Wheels