Category: Big wind politics

Pacific Hydro’s “Monumental Own Goal”: Or How Steven Cooper’s Wind Farm Study Helps Sink the Wind Industry

**** In our last post we popped up the study done by Steven Cooper at Pacific Hydro’s Cape Bridgewater wind farm, that’s sent the wind industry and its parasites into complete melt-down. And its keenest advocates have turned on Pac Hydro, with the kind of hate-filled vengeance (usually reserved for traitors) for letting Cooper off … Continue reading Pacific Hydro’s “Monumental Own Goal”: Or How Steven Cooper’s Wind Farm Study Helps Sink the Wind Industry

Steven Cooper’s Cape Bridgewater Wind Farm Study the Beginning of the End for the Wind Industry

**** Earlier this week, a small, but very effective, nuclear device was detonated at Cape Bridewater, which - before Union Super Funds backed Pacific Hydro destroyed it - was a pristine, coastal idyll in South-Western Victoria. The bomb that went off was a study carried out by one of Australia’s crack acoustic specialists, Steven Cooper … Continue reading Steven Cooper’s Cape Bridgewater Wind Farm Study the Beginning of the End for the Wind Industry

This Town is ‘coming like a Ghost Town: Wind Industry Buys Up & Bulldozes Whole Danish Villages

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZ2oXzrnti4 **** The Specials there, outlining Vesta’s ultimate plans for a town like yours. If any further evidence was needed to show that the wind industry is the extension of the human-haters - who regard people, in the words of Greenpeace founder, Patrick Moore "as the enemies of the Earth, a cancer on the planet" … Continue reading This Town is ‘coming like a Ghost Town: Wind Industry Buys Up & Bulldozes Whole Danish Villages

Wind Industry Keeps Losing ‘Hearts and Minds’: Community Opposition Rolls & Builds

**** Remember all the guff about everyone just “loving” wind farms: you know, the spin trotted out by wind industry spruikers - like the Clean Energy Council - in Mickey Mouse “surveys” that claim 150% of your compatriots just can’t wait to spear thousands of giant fans into YOUR slice of heaven (not theirs, of … Continue reading Wind Industry Keeps Losing ‘Hearts and Minds’: Community Opposition Rolls & Builds

Greens Simply ‘Clueless’: Miners say “Wind Power NO ‘Alternative’ to REAL Power”

**** Greens clueless on energy The Australian Brendan Pearson 16 January 2015 DURING his formative years, the legendary 20th-century American journalist Walter Lippman spent a lot of time with revolutionaries, radical intellectuals and others with a weak grip on reality. But Lippman soon grew tired of “dilettante rebels, he who would rather dream 10 dreams … Continue reading Greens Simply ‘Clueless’: Miners say “Wind Power NO ‘Alternative’ to REAL Power”

Australian Wind Industry Hits the Wall: Claiming “Uncertainty” the Big KILLER

**** Clean energy spending plunges on RET uncertainty The Australian Sarah-Jane Tasker 13 January 2015 NEW clean energy investment in Australia has dropped to its lowest level since 2009, falling 35 per cent to $4.6 billion, driven by un­certainty over the renewable energy target. A severe downturn in large-scale asset financing helped push the figure … Continue reading Australian Wind Industry Hits the Wall: Claiming “Uncertainty” the Big KILLER

Parker Gallant: Wind Power Outfits’ Christmas Bonanza in Ontario

**** More wind energy means higher costs to power punters, pure and simple. If you're looking for obscene examples of the great wind power fraud in action, you need look no further than Ontario. Ontario is the place where the most bizarre energy policy in the world has seen thousands of giant fans speared into … Continue reading Parker Gallant: Wind Power Outfits’ Christmas Bonanza in Ontario

Pac Hydro’s Cape Bridgewater Wind Farm Victims to Be Told What They Already Know: Turbine Noise Has Ruined Their Lives

**** Wind farm critics keen to hear expert’s findings on turbine noise The Standard Peter Collins 3 January 2015 WIND farm critics are hoping an expert’s report to be presented in Portland next month will strengthen their case for official recognition of noise and health issues linked to turbines. Among those planning to attend the … Continue reading Pac Hydro’s Cape Bridgewater Wind Farm Victims to Be Told What They Already Know: Turbine Noise Has Ruined Their Lives

“Unscheduled” Wind Farm Shut-Down Shows Low-Frequency Noise Impact at Waterloo, SA

**** One of the major obstacles faced by acoustic experts when trying to do meaningful wind turbine 'noise' testing is the dogged refusal of wind farm operators to provide wind speed and operational data. Moreover, wind power outfits have resisted, with granite-like tenacity, quite reasonable calls by noise experts to shut down their turbines (ie … Continue reading “Unscheduled” Wind Farm Shut-Down Shows Low-Frequency Noise Impact at Waterloo, SA

Australia’s Most Notorious Wind Power Outfit – Infigen – says “Move Over Pinocchio, Here We Come”

Lies, treachery and deceit are the hallmarks of the wind industry – fraud of all manner of descriptions is de rigueur for wind power outfits; and whether it’s bribery and fraud; vote rigging scandals; tax fraud; investor fraud or REC fraud – crooks and corruption rule. These boys are the grand masters of fleecing customers … Continue reading Australia’s Most Notorious Wind Power Outfit – Infigen – says “Move Over Pinocchio, Here We Come”