**** Ian “Macca” Macfarlane and his youthful ward, Greg Hunt are the flies in the Coalition’s political ointment, when it comes to engineering anything like a sensible policy on energy. Both Macfarlane’s and Hunt’s offices are filled with wind industry plants and stooges, like Hunt's senior adviser, Patrick Gibbons. Patrick is best mates with Vesta’s … Continue reading Greg Hunt’s “Game” of Hide and Seek: or how Australia’s most notorious wind power outfit – Infigen – hijacked Australian Energy Policy
Category: Big wind politics
Unwilling Turbine Hosts Set to Revolt, as NSW Planning Minister – Pru Goward – Slams Spanish Fan Plans at Yass
**** Planning Minister, Pru Goward has just slammed the bag on Spanish backed wind-scammer, Epuron’s plans to carpet the rolling hills west of Yass, on the New South Wales tablelands, with giant fans. Epuron’s plans for the Yass Valley Wind farm go way back to 2009 and, had it ever got off the ground, would … Continue reading Unwilling Turbine Hosts Set to Revolt, as NSW Planning Minister – Pru Goward – Slams Spanish Fan Plans at Yass
More on Germany’s Wind Power Fiasco
**** The Germans went into wind power harder and faster than anyone else – and the cost of doing so is catching up with a vengeance. The subsidies have been colossal, the impacts on the electricity market chaotic and – contrary to the environmental purpose of the policy – CO2 emissions are rising fast: if … Continue reading More on Germany’s Wind Power Fiasco
Low-Frequency Wind Turbine Noise: a Recipe for Unhappy Mothers and Unhealthy Babies
Noise is always and everywhere a public health issue. Last year, in a piece looking at the importance of silence to healthy, happy communities, The Economist, quoting Poppy Elliot from the Noise Abatement Society, wrote that: [A] quiet environment is necessary to enable people to fulfil their intellectual and creative potential. She points to a … Continue reading Low-Frequency Wind Turbine Noise: a Recipe for Unhappy Mothers and Unhealthy Babies
US Wind Farm Operator Settles to Shut Down Neighbours’ Dynamite Damages Case
**** A telling-scene there, from the film A Civil Action; which is pretty much how things panned out for a US wind farm operator in Michigan recently. STT has been following a monumental piece of litigation that blew up over the Lake Winds wind farm in Mason County, for a while now (see our posts … Continue reading US Wind Farm Operator Settles to Shut Down Neighbours’ Dynamite Damages Case
Wind Power Goes AWOL Right When Freezing Brits Need It Most
**** The hackneyed myth that wind power "powers" millions of homes with wonderful "free" wind energy is taking a beating around the globe (see our post here). The idea that a wholly weather dependent power generation source can ever be - as is touted endlessly by the wind industry and its parasites - an "alternative" … Continue reading Wind Power Goes AWOL Right When Freezing Brits Need It Most
A Fine Irish Take on the Great Wind Power Fraud
Five reasons why it is folly to adopt wind power as an energy source The Irish Examiner 23 January 2015 While the arguments for wind power seem straightforward and compelling, Wind power would reduce our dependency on foreign oil, wind power is clean and would allow for the shut down of dirty fossil fuel fired … Continue reading A Fine Irish Take on the Great Wind Power Fraud
Wind Industry RUNS & HIDES as World Wakes Up to the Great Wind Power Fraud
**** Around the world, people are waking up to the scale, scope and magnitude of the great wind power fraud. Rural communities are fighting back hard - in efforts to protect their homes, health and well-being. Their anger extends to the goons that lied their way to development approval – and the bent officials that … Continue reading Wind Industry RUNS & HIDES as World Wakes Up to the Great Wind Power Fraud
STT’s Australian of the Year Awards
**** Australians are a weird mob - as that, somewhat historically inaccurate, mash up demonstrates. “Cooky” was, of course, a Yorkshireman; and, strictly speaking, Burke, of Burke and Wills fame, was an Irish born solider and policeman. Ned Kelly, the only gluten intolerant bushranger in history - born in Victoria, to an Irish convict father … Continue reading STT’s Australian of the Year Awards
Alan Jones: Victims – Like Turbine Host David Mortimer – Vindicated by Steven Cooper’s Groundbreaking Wind Farm Study
David Mortimer - a turbine host (ie contracted farmer) for Infigen (see our post here) - was interviewed by Alan Jones on 2GB last week. Alan, first gives great little wrap up of the evidence tying wind turbines to adverse health impacts, going back to Neil Kelley's research in the 1980s and right up to … Continue reading Alan Jones: Victims – Like Turbine Host David Mortimer – Vindicated by Steven Cooper’s Groundbreaking Wind Farm Study
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