Licence Cancelled: Top French Court Strikes Down Unlawful Wind Farm Planning Rules

Wind farm noise ‘guidelines’ (written by the industry’s pet consultants) never survive first contact with careful legal scrutiny. In the Victorian Bald Hills case, Justice Richards of the Victorian Supreme Court not only ordered the wind farm operator to shut down its turbines at night to limit the noise nuisance they created, her Honour slammed … Continue reading Licence Cancelled: Top French Court Strikes Down Unlawful Wind Farm Planning Rules

Irish High Court Slams Wind Turbine Operator For Noise “Like Aeroplanes that Never Land”

Freedom from wind turbine noise nuisance isn’t a “concern”; it’s a hard-won legal “right” based on the lawful entitlement to sleep comfortably in your own home – a right (not a privilege) that’s been upheld against the mighty, rich and powerful for close to 200 hundred years. The grinding, thumping cacophony generated by giant industrial … Continue reading Irish High Court Slams Wind Turbine Operator For Noise “Like Aeroplanes that Never Land”

Plains Justice: Judge Orders Entire (84 Turbine) Wind Farm Be Removed From Osage Land

After a 12-year battle, America’s Osage defeated an Italian wind power outfit, with a court ordering the removal of 84 turbines illegally speared into their tribal lands. Riding roughshod over the rights of indigenous peoples and desecrating their sacred land is all in a day’s work for the wind industry. At places like the Bald … Continue reading Plains Justice: Judge Orders Entire (84 Turbine) Wind Farm Be Removed From Osage Land

US Government Sued For Concealing Wind Industry’s Wholesale Whale Slaughter

Courts have a tendency to get the unvarnished truth out, such as the US government’s cover-up of wind industry’s wholesale whale slaughter. Everyone expects the wind industry to lie - it’s in its interest to do so, indeed its very existence depends upon a series of falsehoods - but governments are usually held to slightly … Continue reading US Government Sued For Concealing Wind Industry’s Wholesale Whale Slaughter

Holding Wind Power Outfits to Account Means Getting Your Own Noise Data

If you’re being driven nuts by thumping, grinding wind turbine noise don’t expect government authorities to help. Local governments, municipalities and so-called Environment Protection Authorities were co-opted by the wind industry, long ago. Although, sometimes, it’s more bungling incompetence than blatant corruption that does the damage. Everyone is entitled to sleep comfortably in their own … Continue reading Holding Wind Power Outfits to Account Means Getting Your Own Noise Data

Rural America Tells Wind Industry to ‘Stick Its Turbines Where The Sun Don’t Shine’

America’s farmers have rejected the pitch that 600-700-foot-high wind turbines and endless seas of solar panels are a surefire path to peace and prosperity. Rural Americans are angry, organised and lawyered up. These are people who will not become roadkill for the renewable energy rent seekers determined to destroy their peaceful and prosperous communities. The … Continue reading Rural America Tells Wind Industry to ‘Stick Its Turbines Where The Sun Don’t Shine’

Noise Torture Terminated: Wind Industry Panics After Supreme Court Orders Turbine Shutdown

Renewable energy rent-seekers are clearly rattled by the Supreme Court decision, that forced a wind farm operator to shut down all of its turbines at night-time and ordered substantial damages in favour of the plaintiffs for the pain and suffering, already caused to its victims. Being forced to limit the operation of wind turbines to … Continue reading Noise Torture Terminated: Wind Industry Panics After Supreme Court Orders Turbine Shutdown

Shut Down: Supreme Court Decision Destroys Wind Industry’s Entire Business Model

The Supreme Court’s decision, forcing a wind farm operator to shut down all of its turbines at night-time has wrecked the wind industry’s business model in Australia and elsewhere. Being forced to limit the operation of wind turbines to the daytime only, means forgoing every last nickel of income that might have been generated at … Continue reading Shut Down: Supreme Court Decision Destroys Wind Industry’s Entire Business Model

Supreme Court Exposes Wind Industry’s Appalling Treatment of Wind Farm Neighbours

The Supreme Court’s decision, forcing a wind farm operator to shut down all of its turbines at night-time, lifts the lid on a toxic culture, where the wind industry torments and ridicules its victims, as a matter of standard corporate practice. On 25 March 2022, Justice Melinda Richards of the Victorian Supreme Court slapped an … Continue reading Supreme Court Exposes Wind Industry’s Appalling Treatment of Wind Farm Neighbours

Landmark Decision Vindicates Victims: Supreme Court Orders Total Wind Farm Shutdown

In a world-first, neighbours tormented by wind turbine noise have won a landmark victory, forcing the operator to shut down all of its turbines at night-time. Yesterday, Justice Melinda Richards of the Victorian Supreme Court slapped an injunction on a wind farm because the noise it generates has been driving neighbours nuts for seven years, … Continue reading Landmark Decision Vindicates Victims: Supreme Court Orders Total Wind Farm Shutdown