**** 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 Scots Fight-back as Wind Power Outfit Aims to Thump its ‘Community Message’ Home
Category: Big wind politics
Europe’s Wind Powered Recipe for Economic Disaster
**** Lessons from Europe: Recipe for a high-cost energy system Communities Digital News Steve Goreham 26 May 2015 CHICAGO, May 26, 2015 — While President Obama promotes renewable energy and members of Congress argue about energy policy, a renewable energy disaster is unfolding in Europe. Driven by a desire to halt climate change, Europe has … Continue reading Europe’s Wind Powered Recipe for Economic Disaster
Wind Power: Just the latest “Con Job”
**** John and Anne Carter, have lived next to the Crookwell wind farm in NSW since it began operation in 1998. Although these cattle farmers are not troubled by audible noise, as their other neighbours are, they are impacted by infrasound – Anne in particular, as well as their animals. A while back, John gave … Continue reading Wind Power: Just the latest “Con Job”
Deliverance for Brits: David Cameron Empties Subsidy Trough & 250 Wind Farms Get Scrapped
**** The wind industry isn’t powered by wind; it’s fuelled by massive and endless subsidies. If ever that proposition needed support, then events in the UK since David Cameron’s election win provide plenty. 250 onshore windfarms will be scrapped as taxpayer subsidies are axed Daily Express John Ingham 22 June 2015 LARGE swathes of the … Continue reading Deliverance for Brits: David Cameron Empties Subsidy Trough & 250 Wind Farms Get Scrapped
Senator Bob Day Aims the Blowtorch at the Great Wind Power Fraud
**** Bob Day is the Family First Senator for South Australia. He’s one of the good Senators sitting on the Senate’s Inquiry into the great wind power fraud; and he gets it. Here’s a recent press release from Bob which requires no further introduction or comment from us. WIND TURBINES NOW FACE OVERDUE SCRUTINY Wednesday … Continue reading Senator Bob Day Aims the Blowtorch at the Great Wind Power Fraud
Scots Go on the Offensive: Wind Power Outfits to be Sued & Wind Farms Shut Down Using Independent Noise Data
**** As we pointed out in this recent post, the Scots are a tenacious bunch of lads and lassies: Subsidies Scrapped: Scots Rejoice at Wind Industry’s Demise – Time for a Wee Highland Fling Delighted with David Cameron’s win - which heralds the demise of the wind industry in the UK - Highlanders have turned … Continue reading Scots Go on the Offensive: Wind Power Outfits to be Sued & Wind Farms Shut Down Using Independent Noise Data
Alan Moran: on the Insane & Pointless Cost of Wind Power
**** Green energy generates big costs for little gain Alan Moran Australian Financial Review 21 June 2015 Reports of the death of coal are greatly exaggerated. For green power is still very costly and uncompetitive, and likely to remain so despite all the subsidies. In this newspaper last week Richard Denniss opined that there was … Continue reading Alan Moran: on the Insane & Pointless Cost of Wind Power
Macarthur Turbine Hosts Destroy Local Community & Bolt, as Hammering the Wind Industry becomes the “New Black”
**** When STT cranked into gear in December 2012, hammering the wind industry was a fairly lonely occupation: hardly fashionable; a bit like wearing yellow to a funeral, really. Back then, openly questioning the “wonders” of wind power was a guaranteed dinner party showstopper. Nervous hosts - choking on their organic pinot gris - would … Continue reading Macarthur Turbine Hosts Destroy Local Community & Bolt, as Hammering the Wind Industry becomes the “New Black”
Larry Pickering: on the Quixotic Calamity of Wind
*** Larry Pickering is a four-time Walkley Award winning political commentator and Churchill Fellow, whose life's work has been irritating the loopy-left. Here he is slaying the great wind power fraud. It's more than a Quixotic Calamity Larry Pickering The Pickering Post 20 June 2015 **** The European Renewable Energy Foundation, a Green body supportive … Continue reading Larry Pickering: on the Quixotic Calamity of Wind
Hepburn Wind: Community Wind Farm ‘Helps’ Wombats with Other Peoples’ Money
**** Anyone that's looking to make a small fortune, need only hand a very large one to a community wind farm operator: More Wind Power Outfits Go Bust: “Farmer-Investors” Lose their Shirts in the US Community Wind Farm Investors Losing their Shirts Part of their pitch (some might call it laying bait for the more … Continue reading Hepburn Wind: Community Wind Farm ‘Helps’ Wombats with Other Peoples’ Money
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