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
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‘Green’ Hypocrites Want Industrial Wind Turbines in YOUR Backyard, But Never in Theirs
The green is always ready to spear hundreds of giant 240m (787ft) industrial wind turbines - into your backyard, but goes nuts if the ‘favour’ might be returned. Destroying your patch of paradise is a sacrifice that he is always willing to make. When former Greens leader, Dr Bob Brown started railing about the prospect … Continue reading ‘Green’ Hypocrites Want Industrial Wind Turbines in YOUR Backyard, But Never in Theirs
‘Green’ Magic: Wind & Solar ‘Transition’ The Greatest Con Job in History
Sunset and calm weather mean that wind and solar will never be meaningful power sources. Talk about ‘storage’ overcoming their chaotic intermittency, is just that: talk. The sum total of the world’s grid scale storage capacity for electricity is risible. The biggest single battery in the world, sits in a sheep paddock in South Australia’s … Continue reading ‘Green’ Magic: Wind & Solar ‘Transition’ The Greatest Con Job in History
Own Goal: Michael Moore Documentary Tackles Dark Side of Wind & Solar
Renewable energy zealots must hit the panic button when someone from their own team calls the wind and solar ‘industries’ rotten to the core. The hard green-left and so-called “progressives” take as an article of faith that those among them will worship wind and solar until kingdom come. So, when one of their own starts … Continue reading Own Goal: Michael Moore Documentary Tackles Dark Side of Wind & Solar
Justice Prevails: Wind Developers Charged Over Water Wells Contaminated with Toxic Sludge
Ontario’s farmers, furious about the toxic sludge coming out of their wells, have finally got the wind power outfits causing it charged with a raft of offences under the Environment Protection Act. Pile-driving and the excavations required for 400m³ of steel reinforced concrete for the hundreds of turbine bases across Chatham-Kent are the only new … Continue reading Justice Prevails: Wind Developers Charged Over Water Wells Contaminated with Toxic Sludge
Fired-Up: Industrial Wind Turbines Setting the World Alight, Alright!
Wind turbines are the perfect incendiary device: packed with flammable and toxic oils, plastics, fibreglass and low-ignition point metals, like aluminium, when one of these things spontaneously bursts into flames, everybody for miles around knows all about it. For those country folk nervous about the terror that comes with an out-of-control bushfire, here are a … Continue reading Fired-Up: Industrial Wind Turbines Setting the World Alight, Alright!
‘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
Scorched Earth: Suicidal Climate/Energy Policy Destroying Britain’s Landscape
Climate alarmists are ready to destroy your environment in their unhinged efforts to ‘save’ it. That their exhortations to 'climate action' result in the dystopian destruction of pristine wilderness, bucolic landscapes and vibrant communities is a sacrifice that they’re always willing to make. Although, as recent events have shown, there are limits; and even … Continue reading Scorched Earth: Suicidal Climate/Energy Policy Destroying Britain’s Landscape
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
Double Standards: Greens Run Silent on Wind Turbine Bird & Bat & Bug Slaughter
The media went nuts when former Greens leader, Bob Brown turned on a wind farm in his backyard. Rampant hypocrisy, was just the first of the charges levelled at a man renowned for his hatred of reliable and affordable electricity. In the result, the Liberal/National Coalition were very grateful that Dr Bob’s hatred of coal … Continue reading Double Standards: Greens Run Silent on Wind Turbine Bird & Bat & Bug Slaughter