**** Ever had the feeling that certain quarters of the media give the wind industry an easy run? Australia’s National broad-sheet, The Australian stands as an exception; publishing plenty of pieces that, quite rightly, highlight the obscene cost and spurious “benefits” of the mandatory Renewable Energy Target and its product: the wind industry (for just … Continue reading ABC’s Pro-Wind Industry Bias Exposed as a National Scandal
Category: Big wind politics
Tony Abbott, Joe Hockey & Mathias Cormann: Natural Born RET Killers
**** Tony Abbott has made no secret of his eagerness to do away with the most colossal corporate welfare scheme in the history of the Commonwealth (see our posts here and here and here). And his Treasurer, Joe Hockey has pinned his colours to the mast as someone who can’t stand wind farms - and … Continue reading Tony Abbott, Joe Hockey & Mathias Cormann: Natural Born RET Killers
European Governments Rip Up Wind Power Contracts
**** In recent weeks there has been a cacophony of wind industry rent-seeker bleating. Turbine makers, like America's GE have been running hard in the press touting the "merits" of retaining the mandatory Renewable Energy Target - a scheme that will see $50 billion added to Australian power bills and directed to wind power outfits … Continue reading European Governments Rip Up Wind Power Contracts
Victorian Planning Department involved in Waubra Wind Farm Non-Compliance Cover Up
**** The unseemly links between the wind industry and Victoria's Department of Planning (DPCD) were laid bare by Senator John "Marshall" Madigan back in December last year (see our post here). The relationship has seen the DPCD do the wind industry's bidding at every turn: lying about non-compliance with noise conditions of planning consents and, … Continue reading Victorian Planning Department involved in Waubra Wind Farm Non-Compliance Cover Up
Community Opposition to Wind Farms Grows Because Wind Power is a Fraud
As community and political opposition to the great wind power fraud rolls and builds across the world, the charge that opponents are red-necked climate change deniers, infected with a dose of Not In My Backyard syndrome, starts to ring hollow. Surely that charge can’t stick to each and every one of the 1,000 who signed … Continue reading Community Opposition to Wind Farms Grows Because Wind Power is a Fraud
NSW Planning Department Helps Wind Farm Developers Rig Community “Consultations”
As community hostility to wind farm plans erupts across the Southern Tablelands of NSW, wind power outfits have taken to sacking and stacking committees to ensure the “process” of “community consultation” is little more than high farce. Spanish outfit, Union Fenosa didn’t like the prospect of having Tony Abbott’s key business adviser, Maurice Newman challenge … Continue reading NSW Planning Department Helps Wind Farm Developers Rig Community “Consultations”
1,000 Sign Petition Against Mt Emerald Wind Farm: Survey says 92% Opposed
The battle to prevent RATCH from getting planning approval for the disaster it proposes for Mount Emerald has reached fever pitch (see our post here). Furious locals have produced a community petition and survey that shows the depth of opposition to the project and the manner in which the developer has ridden roughshod over a … Continue reading 1,000 Sign Petition Against Mt Emerald Wind Farm: Survey says 92% Opposed
Germany’s Unsustainable “Green” Jobs “Miracle” Collapses
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 purpose of the policy - CO2 emissions are rising fast (see our post … Continue reading Germany’s Unsustainable “Green” Jobs “Miracle” Collapses
Vestas Helps Engineer Sacking of Denmark’s Top Acoustic Professor, Henrik Møller
**** In Denmark, Vestas is the wind industry. And like the wind industry everywhere, it's done its level best to infiltrate and influence every aspect of political and academic life: all aimed at preventing any pesky opposition to its plans to cover the planet with its giant fans. Vestas isn't afraid to cut all the … Continue reading Vestas Helps Engineer Sacking of Denmark’s Top Acoustic Professor, Henrik Møller
Can’t “Win” Support for your Wind Farm? Why Not Try Bribing the Locals
A blustery reception for wind turbines as locals voice their opposition Irish Examiner Michael Clifford 26 July 2014 An energy developer has Meath GAA onboard for its project, but local people are not so receptive to the plan, writes Special Correspondent Michael Clifford. THEY carried the pipe the day after Enda Kenny sat down with … Continue reading Can’t “Win” Support for your Wind Farm? Why Not Try Bribing the Locals
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