Donald Trump has thrashed the wind industry to within an inch of its life, soon enough the AI revolution will deliver the fatal blow. A mixture of Trump’s hatred of the greatest scam in history and the surging demand for the reliable - around-the-clock - electricity needed for a technology that promises to reshape the … Continue reading Stop These Things’ Weekly Round Up: 7 December 2025
Category: Fishing offshore wind power
Greenlight For Offshore Wind Industry’s Wholesale Environmental Destruction
The damage done by offshore wind farms to fishing grounds is met with practiced contempt by wind power outfits and malign indifference by their political enablers. Taking wind turbines out to sea not only escalates the cost of the occasional power they produce, it destroys coastal landscapes, birds and other marine life. And, as Robert Bradley explains below, spearing thousands of … Continue reading Greenlight For Offshore Wind Industry’s Wholesale Environmental Destruction
Furious Fishermen Stage Revolt Against Offshore Wind Industry
The offshore wind industry is facing the fury of fishermen determined to protect their fisheries, their livelihoods and the environment they live and work in. Along America’s Atlantic coast, fishermen of all shapes and sizes have turned on the offshore wind industry with an industrial scale fury. Right alongside them are those with a passionate … Continue reading Furious Fishermen Stage Revolt Against Offshore Wind Industry
Wind Industry’s Share Prices Plummet As More Offshore Wind Projects Get Scrapped
The wind industry’s financial misery is spreading like the toxic junk from disintegrating turbine blades that’s covering vast tracts of the Atlantic coastline. Once bullish forecasts for giant offshore wind turbine projects these days sound like suicide pacts involving other people’s money. Loose talk about mega-offshore projects has been replaced by massive and mounting losses … Continue reading Wind Industry’s Share Prices Plummet As More Offshore Wind Projects Get Scrapped
Deadly Interference: Offshore Wind Turbines Wrecking Marine Radar Signals
Radar is critical to safe marine navigation, and pilots, both domestic and military, particularly when the weather turns sour. With offshore wind turbines the perfect radar signal wreckers, you'd think they were designed as some form of enemy espionage. Wind turbines standing on columns 100-150m or more above sea level, with the tips of their 50-80m … Continue reading Deadly Interference: Offshore Wind Turbines Wrecking Marine Radar Signals
Hostility Mounts: Offshore Wind Power Disaster Attracts Serious Onshore Opposition
There’s no real argument in favour of offshore wind power, and plenty of serious arguments against. Start with the absolutely staggering cost, which has major proponents demanding even greater subsidies from taxpayers and/or higher prices in the guaranteed power contracts they ink with governments. With governments increasingly refusing to play ball, proponents are simply dropping … Continue reading Hostility Mounts: Offshore Wind Power Disaster Attracts Serious Onshore Opposition
Whale-Sized Revolt: Fishermen Slam Biden’s Offshore Wind Power Disaster
The wind industry is determined to destroy the marine environment along the Atlantic coast; its fishermen are even more determined to stop them. As whale carcasses mount up along the coastline, those who depend on the sea for their livelihoods have turned on the offshore wind industry and its government enablers, with a vengeance. As … Continue reading Whale-Sized Revolt: Fishermen Slam Biden’s Offshore Wind Power Disaster
Atlantic Fishery Under Threat: Offshore Wind Farm Substations Secret, Silent Killers
The offshore wind industry is wiping out thousands of marine mammals and fish are its next victims. While plenty has been written about whales, dolphins, porpoises and seals being deafened by wind turbine construction activities (they don’t respond well to sonar and seismic blasting), less notice has been given to fish, crabs and other critters … Continue reading Atlantic Fishery Under Threat: Offshore Wind Farm Substations Secret, Silent Killers
Plain Stupid: The Only Thing Dumber Than Wind Power Is Offshore Wind Power
Wind power comes with a staggering price tag, taking these things out to sea sends those costs into orbit: intermittent offshore wind power is six times the cost of gas-fired power that's always available on demand. Placing giant industrial wind turbines miles offshore is costly enough, but the rising costs of attempting to maintain them … Continue reading Plain Stupid: The Only Thing Dumber Than Wind Power Is Offshore Wind Power
Fighting Back: Americans Unite To Stop Offshore Wind Industry Wrecking Fishing Grounds
With offshore wind power outfits wrecking their fishing grounds, America’s fishermen are fighting like their lives depend upon it. With assistance from the Texas Public Policy Foundation, Rhode Island’s fishing community has issued proceedings in the Federal Court seeking to knockout the permits given to Vineyard Wind which, if left in place, will inevitably wreck … Continue reading Fighting Back: Americans Unite To Stop Offshore Wind Industry Wrecking Fishing Grounds