**** Queensland National’s Senator, Matt Canavan gets it. An economist by trade, having worked for the Productivity Commission, he’s got a head for facts and figures. Matt’s reasoned musings have graced the pages of STT a couple of times: Senator Matt Canavan: mandatory RET is an Enormous Wind Industry Protection Racket Senator Matt Canavan: Australia’s … Continue reading Australian Senator – Matt Canavan – Slams “Greens” Hypocrisy & Skewers the Great Wind Power Fraud
Category: Big wind politics
Top Acoustics Professor Calls for Full Compensation for Wind Farm Victims, as Council Calls for “National Noise Cops”
**** The Australian Senate Inquiry into the great wind power fraud hits the road tomorrow, 30 March – starting at Portland, Victoria (in the TAFE campus on Hurd Street from 8.30am) – the town next door to Pacific Hydro’s Cape Bridgewater disaster. The hearing gives long-suffering residents there – and from elsewhere – a chance … Continue reading Top Acoustics Professor Calls for Full Compensation for Wind Farm Victims, as Council Calls for “National Noise Cops”
Wind Turbine Blade Throw: Senate Inquiry Gives Chance to Hammer Insanely Dangerous Setback Rules: Submissions Extended to 4 May
**** The number of cases involving collapsing turbines and flying blades (aka “component liberation”) has become so common that, if we were a tad cynical, we would go so far to suggest the possibility of some kind of pattern, along the lines proffered by Mr Bond’s nemesis, Goldfinger: “Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three … Continue reading Wind Turbine Blade Throw: Senate Inquiry Gives Chance to Hammer Insanely Dangerous Setback Rules: Submissions Extended to 4 May
US Take on the Colossal Subsidies ‘Essential’ For Wind Power Outfits to Survive
**** As the world wakes up to scale and scope of the great wind power fraud, the numbers men have started to put pen to paper, in an effort to get a proper bead on the size of the massive subsidies being filched from power consumers and taxpayers, and pocketed by wind power outfits - … Continue reading US Take on the Colossal Subsidies ‘Essential’ For Wind Power Outfits to Survive
Community Wind Farm Investors Losing their Shirts
**** As the wind industry Ponzi scheme unravels around the globe, it's so-called "community wind farms" that are taking a pounding. In the US, a bunch of farmers got fleeced for $millions as a wind power outfit running two small wind farms went belly up on the prairie (see our post here). STT has also … Continue reading Community Wind Farm Investors Losing their Shirts
Conscience Bites Commissioner for Approving Wind Farm & Causing Hatred & Division
**** As the world wakes up to the scale and scope of the great wind power fraud - its inordinate cost to power consumers and taxpayers - the state-sponsored, malfeasance of the wind power outfits that ride the subsidy gravy train, and roughshod over hard-working rural people - and the bitter community division and hatred … Continue reading Conscience Bites Commissioner for Approving Wind Farm & Causing Hatred & Division
Labor, Greg Hunt & Australia’s Wind Industry Panic as LRET Set to Implode
**** Back in October last year, STT predicted that Australia’s Labor opposition would reject any moves by the Coalition to scale back the (completely unsustainable) Large-Scale Renewable Energy Target (LRET) (see our posts here and here). It was around that time, that the Coalition’s (killing) Industry Minister, Ian “Macca” Mcfarlane; and his youthful ward, (carpeting … Continue reading Labor, Greg Hunt & Australia’s Wind Industry Panic as LRET Set to Implode
How Wind Power Subsidies Destroy Both Electricity Markets & Economies
**** Around the globe, the wind industry behaves like an enormous, bloodsucking leech - latching onto power consumers and taxpayers; and ever ready to drain its hosts dry and leave nothing but empty shells behind. In Australia, those soon to be empty shells will include what’s left of our manufacturing industries; mineral processors and the … Continue reading How Wind Power Subsidies Destroy Both Electricity Markets & Economies
Brit Councillor – Barry Goldbart – Quits Tory Party to Fight the Great Wind Power Fraud
**** Councillor Barry Goldbart announces resignation in protest over Navitus Bay wind farm Daily Echo Melanie Vass 13 March 2015 A BOURNEMOUTH Conservative councillor has announced his resignation over the planned Navitus Bay wind farm. Cllr Barry Goldbart, a former cabinet member and ex-Mayor of Bournemouth, has sent an open letter to Prime Minister David … Continue reading Brit Councillor – Barry Goldbart – Quits Tory Party to Fight the Great Wind Power Fraud
The Wind Industry: You Know It’s a ‘Ponzi’ Scheme When its Targets Include Schools & Councils
**** STT has pointed out just a few times that the wind industry is little more than the most recent and elaborate Ponzi scheme in a list that dates back to “corporate investment classics”, like the South-Sea Bubble and Dutch tulip mania. In the wind industry, the scam is all about pitching bogus projected returns … Continue reading The Wind Industry: You Know It’s a ‘Ponzi’ Scheme When its Targets Include Schools & Councils
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