Cut the subsidies and the wind industry would disappear overnight. Warren Buffett put it best: “We get a tax credit if we build a lot of wind farms. That’s the only reason to build them. They don’t make sense without the tax credit.” Precisely!! Wind power makes absolutely no sense at any level: environmental, social or … Continue reading Massive & Endless Subsidies: The Only Thing That Makes Wind Power ‘Sustainable’
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Wind Farms: Industrial Killing Zones for Millions of Birds, Bats & Bugs
Ironically, climate cultists raging about extinctions keep berating us that the solution's an all wind powered future. Merrily ignoring the wanton destruction of millions of birds, bats and bugs caused by their beloveds, every year. Cars, cats and skyscrapers don’t kill Eagles - like the critically endangered Tasmanian wedge-tailed eagle, but 60 m wind turbine … Continue reading Wind Farms: Industrial Killing Zones for Millions of Birds, Bats & Bugs
Blown Away: Mounting Community Opposition Brings Wind Industry to Grinding Halt
The wind industry once held a kind of ‘social licence’. Now that ‘licence’ has been revoked, with rural communities in uproar. In Germany, new wind farm construction has ground to a halt this year - and across the USA the same pattern is emerging. Local governments, legislators and conservation groups have united to pull the … Continue reading Blown Away: Mounting Community Opposition Brings Wind Industry to Grinding Halt
No More Mr Nice Guy: It’s Past Time to Flip the Bird at Wind Turbines
The wind industry has been stealing from us for almost 30 years now. $Trillions in subsidies and all we’ve got to show for it are rocketing power prices, pristine landscapes turned to industrial wastelands, wrecked rural communities and bird and bat carnage. Even former Greens leader, Bob Brown spat the dummy recently over plans to … Continue reading No More Mr Nice Guy: It’s Past Time to Flip the Bird at Wind Turbines
Pointless Destruction: The Appalling Environmental Cost of Wind Power
One issue that annoys RE zealots, like a burr under a frisky pony’s saddle blanket, is the wind industry’s rampant bird and bat slaughter. It’s an inconvenient truth to be sure. But, as with everything that the wind industry does, if you can’t keep a straight face while lying about it any more, then pull … Continue reading Pointless Destruction: The Appalling Environmental Cost of Wind Power
Wedge-Tail Wipeout: Tasmanian Wind Farms Threaten Eagle Extinction
Cars, cats and skyscrapers don’t kill Eagles, but 60 m wind turbine blades with their tips travelling at 350 Kph routinely smash them out of existence. In Australia’s designated National Park, Tasmania, its peculiar species of Wedge-Tailed Eagle is both rare and endangered. Now it faces the existential threat of ever more and even … Continue reading Wedge-Tail Wipeout: Tasmanian Wind Farms Threaten Eagle Extinction
‘Green’ Insanity: Why Chaotic Wind & Solar Are No Answer to World’s Woes
Suddenly, the Australian press are treating wind power with the contempt it deserves, due to an about-face by former Greens leader, Bob Brown. True it is you won’t hear Dr Bob explaining why heavily subsidised and chaotically intermittent wind power is a meaningless power source. Bob won’t be talking about the toxic lakes of heavy … Continue reading ‘Green’ Insanity: Why Chaotic Wind & Solar Are No Answer to World’s Woes
Fake Environmentalists: Love Industrial Wind Turbines – Hate Humans & Nature
The faux environmentalist is easy to spot: he loves industrial wind power and couldn’t care less about the environmental destruction it causes. Faced with the rampant slaughter of birds and bats, he initially denies the evidence and then pushes the moral equivalence button, claiming that more birds are killed by cats, cars and skyscrapers. … Continue reading Fake Environmentalists: Love Industrial Wind Turbines – Hate Humans & Nature
Why No Extinction Rebellion Against Wind Turbines’ Wholesale Bird, Bat & Bug Slaughter?
You know you’re down the rabbit hole when breathless teenagers, dictating world economic policy are actually taken seriously. That vacuous ninnies like Greta Thunberg get any air time at all, speaks volumes about the witless, gullible and naïve that permeate the mainstream press. As they lose their grip on public attention, climate alarmists are now … Continue reading Why No Extinction Rebellion Against Wind Turbines’ Wholesale Bird, Bat & Bug Slaughter?
Licenced to Kill: Government Endorses Wind Industry’s Rampant Eagle Slaughter
When it comes to killing majestic raptors, ‘green’ hypocrisy is the new black. Apex avian predators are top of the food chain for 60 m wind turbine blades with their outer tips travelling at over 350 Kph. RE zealots seem untroubled by the carnage. The usual nonsense retort is that cats, motorcars or skyscrapers kill … Continue reading Licenced to Kill: Government Endorses Wind Industry’s Rampant Eagle Slaughter