Category: Big wind politics

Denmark Calls Halt to More Wind Farm Harm

***** Denmark is the home of struggling Danish fan maker, Vestas – an outfit that – after our Wind Power Fraud Rally in June 2013 – paid $millions to a crack team of Australian propaganda parrots to invent a campaign aimed at winning back the “moral” high ground. It called its new public relations model … Continue reading Denmark Calls Halt to More Wind Farm Harm

Australian Senators – Day, Leyonhjelm & Canavan – Line Up to Can Big Wind

**** STT likes to go in hard, call it early and keep on backing it up. Sure we descend to colourful language, and polish it off with a healthy smear of good old-fashioned sarcasm. But the idiom and imagery we use sits atop a pile of festering wind industry generated lies, deception and common garden … Continue reading Australian Senators – Day, Leyonhjelm & Canavan – Line Up to Can Big Wind

Want to Help the Poorest? Then It’s Time to Ditch Wind Power

**** The only reason that Western economies have entertained the infantile nonsense of wind power, is that the rich world can afford (at least in the short term) to throw $billions in subsidies at a wholly weather dependent "system", that will never stump up as an "alternative", unless your starting point is sitting freezing (or … Continue reading Want to Help the Poorest? Then It’s Time to Ditch Wind Power

Wind Power’s Toxic Embrace

**** Our Toxic Relationship with Wind Power The Valley Patriot Christine Morabito February, 2015 If clean, safe and efficient energy is to be our standard, then why use wind power at all? When we examine the entire process, the construction and operation of wind turbines is a dangerous and toxic affair. It begins with the … Continue reading Wind Power’s Toxic Embrace

Brits Waking Up to the Insane Cost of its Wind Power Disaster

**** Green targets 'cost £214 a year': Report says rush for renewable energy has been 'most expensive policy disaster in modern British history' Jack Doyle Daily Mail 18 March 2015 Shifting to wind and solar power has increased costs to consumers Ditching green energy targets would save households £214 a year Report into renewable energy … Continue reading Brits Waking Up to the Insane Cost of its Wind Power Disaster

Top US Energy Economist Takes the Scalpel to the Great Wind Power Fraud

**** One of the great mysteries behind the lunacy that is the great wind power fraud is how and why so many governments launched into mandating massive and endless subsidies (filched from unwitting power consumers and/or taxpayers) for an utterly meaningless power generation source - WITHOUT ever having carried out a cost/benefit analysis? You know, … Continue reading Top US Energy Economist Takes the Scalpel to the Great Wind Power Fraud

Wind Industry Ponzi Scheme Collapsing: Pacific Hydro’s “Downfall”

**** Pacific Hydro is a name synonymous with wind industry skulduggery in Australia: the merciless treatment of its victims at Cape Bridgewater has been added to the annals of Australian corporate infamy, right up there with Aussie asbestos pedlar, James Hardie (see our post here). Pac Hydro has copped a pasting for riding roughshod over … Continue reading Wind Industry Ponzi Scheme Collapsing: Pacific Hydro’s “Downfall”

Tide Turns as Senate Inquiry hears from the Wind Industry’s “Road-Kill”

**** In the last few posts we've covered the unravelling of the great wind power fraud, as the Senate Inquiry hit the road at Portland, Victoria on 30 March. While the heat was turned up on Pacific Hydro - the beleaguered wind power outfit responsible for the Cape Bridgewater disaster - the Inquiry also got … Continue reading Tide Turns as Senate Inquiry hears from the Wind Industry’s “Road-Kill”

UK Election: Brit’s Insane Wind Power Policy the “Elephant in the Room”

**** Britain's insane wind power policy is, like elsewhere, the invisible policy-pachyderm. No-one with skin in the political game dares to speak about its true costs, its full impacts on power punters, or on how it threatens the very ability of a grid designed for on-demand generation sources to function, with the addition of an … Continue reading UK Election: Brit’s Insane Wind Power Policy the “Elephant in the Room”

The Great Wind Power Fraud: Just the Tip of the Climate Change Hysteria Spending Iceberg

**** The tip of the climate spending iceberg CFACT Paul Driessen 31 March 2015 Lockheed Martin, a recent Washington Post article notes, is getting into renewable energy, nuclear fusion, “sustainability” and even fish farming projects, to augment its reduced defense profits. The company plans to forge new ties with Defense Department and other Obama initiatives, … Continue reading The Great Wind Power Fraud: Just the Tip of the Climate Change Hysteria Spending Iceberg