Germans Finally Take the Axe to Wind Power Subsidies

**** Germany’s renewable policy – referred to as the “Energiewende” – has seen €billions in power consumer/taxpayer subsidies thrown at wind and solar power at the expense of German industry, manufacturing and families. Skyrocketing renewables driven power prices are sending once competitive manufacturers and industries to the USA to benefit from energy made cheap by … Continue reading Germans Finally Take the Axe to Wind Power Subsidies

Fighting the Great Wind Power Fraud? You’re Not Alone

Hard to think it's only been a Year since we took the fight to Canberra. On 18 June 2013, 364 pro-farming and pro-rural community representatives - from Tolga in Far North Queensland, Coopers Gap in Southern QLD; from all over the Tablelands of NSW; a big contingent of Victorians and South Australians; and a contingent … Continue reading Fighting the Great Wind Power Fraud? You’re Not Alone

Friday Funnies: German Satirical Take on Renewables Disaster

STT has focused on the debacle that is German renewable policy this week, taking a close look at its disastrous renewables policy - the product of an economic suicide pact endorsed by Germany's "Grand Coalition" tagged "GroKo". The GroKo - which cops a belting in this skit from a popular TV news/comedy show - is … Continue reading Friday Funnies: German Satirical Take on Renewables Disaster

Wind Power Costs send Germans back to the Stone Age

**** If you're going down to the German woods today, beware of a big surprise. Although it won't be cuddly Teddys with well-stocked picnic baskets and wonderful games to play - chances are it'll be a power starved German armed with an axe, looking to filch a pile of timber to cook his bratwurst and … Continue reading Wind Power Costs send Germans back to the Stone Age

Wind Power: Germany’s Road to Economic & Social Disaster

**** In our last post we covered the fact that German economists have (uncharacteristically) united in their opposition to Germany's renewables policy - referred to as the "Energiewende" - which has seen thousands of giant fans - and millions of solar panels - rolled out across Deutschland: one of their number, Max Planck concluding that … Continue reading Wind Power: Germany’s Road to Economic & Social Disaster

Bjørn Lomborg: Wind power is the path to poverty

**** Dr. Bjørn Lomborg is the Director of Copenhagen Consensus Center and Adjunct Professor at Copenhagen Business School and conducts research into the smartest ways to improve the environment and the world. According to the UK Guardian, he is  one of the 50 people who could save the planet. Here he writes how the burden of ineffective 'green' technologies … Continue reading Bjørn Lomborg: Wind power is the path to poverty

Greens live in a state of constant denial

**** With the race on to kill the Renewable Energy Target stone dead - Australia's so-called "Greens" are working overtime to save it and their wind industry clients. The Greens have become a fully paid up front for the wind industry - struggling Danish fan maker, Vestas has poured $millions into Green coffers and is … Continue reading Greens live in a state of constant denial

Mum & Dad Investors Fleeced as German Wind Power Hits the Wall

**** Thousands of well meaning German mums and dads - conned by wind weasel's lies and promises of fat returns - invested their hard-earned Euros in hundreds of wind projects - now they're watching their cash fast disappearing - like confetti in a cyclone. Meanwhile, to make matters worse, German leader Angela Merkel is shutting … Continue reading Mum & Dad Investors Fleeced as German Wind Power Hits the Wall

Fan Makers Howl: The Sound of Squealing Pigs from Germany

Germans have woken up to the true cost of the insanity brought to them by their political betters aka the Energiewende. That ludicrous policy has foisted thousands of fans all over the German countryside - subsidised to the tune of €billions – but has, perversely - and predictably - resulted in increased CO2 emissions as … Continue reading Fan Makers Howl: The Sound of Squealing Pigs from Germany

When The Party’s Over

Built on a fat pile of subsidies filched from unwitting taxpayers and power consumers - and forced on customers by Stalinist edicts so outrageous that they would've surprised George Orwell with their reach and audacity - wind power is all set to get the boot in Europe. But the fan scamming leeches that have grown … Continue reading When The Party’s Over