**** The mandatory RET has seen the cost of around $9 billion worth of Renewable Energy Certificates added to retail power prices and recovered from all Australian power consumers. Under the Large-Scale Renewable Energy Target, a further $45 to $55 billion will be transferred from power consumers to wind power outfits via the REC Tax/Subsidy … Continue reading Wind Industry’s CO2 Abatement Claims Smashed by Top Physics Professor – Dr Joseph Wheatley
Category: Big wind politics
The Fossil Fuel-Free Fantasy: Robert Bryce Hammers Harvard’s Human-Hating Ecofascist Hit Squad
**** Robert Bryce picked the wind power fraud for what it is from the very beginning. In his 2010 book “Power Hungry: The Myths of “Green” Energy and the Real Fuels of the Future” (Public Affairs), Bryce skewered every one of the myths relied upon by the wind industry to peddle its wares; and went … Continue reading The Fossil Fuel-Free Fantasy: Robert Bryce Hammers Harvard’s Human-Hating Ecofascist Hit Squad
Farmer’s Fiery Suicide Attempt Follows Land Theft by Wind Power Outfit
**** Having reported repeatedly on the thuggery, bullying and general readiness of the wind industry to literally sink the boots in to get its way, nothing much surprises STT now. **** In Taiwan, wind power outfits routinely let their muscle loose on anyone with the slightest (and clearly reasonable) objection to their plans to wallow … Continue reading Farmer’s Fiery Suicide Attempt Follows Land Theft by Wind Power Outfit
Pac Hydro Cape Bridgewater Wind Farm Victim – Melissa Ware – Attacks Infrasound Ignorance
**** Melissa Ware is one of the long-suffering victims of Pac Hydro’s Cape Bridgewater disaster. No sooner had Melissa given Labor-in-Liberal clothing Federal MP, Disappointing Dan Tehan a solid whack - for his wind industry backed plea to salvage the completely unsustainable Large-Scale Renewable Energy Target - (see our post here), than she was back … Continue reading Pac Hydro Cape Bridgewater Wind Farm Victim – Melissa Ware – Attacks Infrasound Ignorance
Wind Industry School Student Indoctrination Program Backfires: Parents Move to Can Noisy Fan
**** Thanks to eco-fascist efforts to indoctrinate the young and impressionable on the “wonders” of wind, it’s school kids that have to learn the finer points of how to successfully run, duck and take cover: wind weasels have planted hundreds of their whirling monsters in schoolyards across the UK, including dozens at schools in the … Continue reading Wind Industry School Student Indoctrination Program Backfires: Parents Move to Can Noisy Fan
Out to Save their Wind Industry Mates, Macfarlane & Hunt Lock-in $46 billion LRET Retail Power Tax
**** Wind industry front men, Ian "Macca" Macfarlane and, his youthful ward, young Gregory Hunt are out to defy all-comers: the Liberal's core constituency (of conservative voters); their colleagues, Joe Hockey and Mathias Cormann; boss, Tony Abbott; and political, economic and environmental common sense - as they pump up a deal with Labor to salvage … Continue reading Out to Save their Wind Industry Mates, Macfarlane & Hunt Lock-in $46 billion LRET Retail Power Tax
Community Defenders Down MET Mast in Donegal, Ireland
**** There aren’t many guarantees in life – death and taxes spring to mind: to which can be added open community hostility to giant fans. Wherever wind farms have appeared – or have been threatened – big numbers of locals take a set against the monsters being speared into their previously peaceful – and often … Continue reading Community Defenders Down MET Mast in Donegal, Ireland
UK Elections: Britain’s Deliverance from its Wind Power Disaster
**** Britain’s political betters have set it up for one enormous gamble. Britain is wagering its entire economic future on its – out of control – wind power debacle. Back in January last year, The Economist reported on the INSANE cost of delivering offshore wind power – where generators are guaranteed obscene returns – being … Continue reading UK Elections: Britain’s Deliverance from its Wind Power Disaster
2015: the Wind Industry’s ‘Annus Horribilis’; or Time to Sink the Boots In
**** Any 'business' model or industry that is built around endless streams of government mandated subsidies - like Australia's REC Tax/Subsidy or the US's Production Tax Credit - pins its hopes of long-term survival on the whims of our political betters, which tend to ebb and flow with the economics that dictate the fortunes of … Continue reading 2015: the Wind Industry’s ‘Annus Horribilis’; or Time to Sink the Boots In
Tony Abbott Gets the Heads-Up on Disappointing Dan Tehan’s Pro-Wind Industry Push
**** Labor-in-Liberal clothing Federal MP, Dan Tehan manged to stir up a veritable hornet's nest in his western Victorian electorate by appearing on the Ministry's of Truth's 7.30 Report and putting in a performance that would have done wind industry spruikers, the Clean Energy Council proud (see our post here). Dan's dismal efforts to protect … Continue reading Tony Abbott Gets the Heads-Up on Disappointing Dan Tehan’s Pro-Wind Industry Push
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