**** In a ‘don’t say we didn’t warn you’ piece, Matt Ridley nails down precisley why THESE THINGS DON’T WORK – on any level. Over to Matt. Wind power makes electricity expensive and unreliable without cutting emissions Rational Optimist Matt Ridley 13 November 2015 By preventing investment in gas, the dash for wind has done … Continue reading Britain Laments: Wind Power Sends Power Prices Skyward, Risks Total Grid Collapse & Fails to Cut CO2 Emissions
Category: UK
Community Defenders Winning Wind Farm Battle of Britain
*** In Britain, dogged community defenders are winning the Battle for Britain; skirmish by skirmish; village by village; town by town. The wind industry is being pummelled by an environment in which the massive and endless subsidies upon which the scam essentially depends have been slashed - never to return. And in which community defenders … Continue reading Community Defenders Winning Wind Farm Battle of Britain
UK’s Wind ‘Powered’ Disaster: Britain to Roll Out Thousands of Diesel Generators for 1.5GW of Wind Farm ‘Back-Up’
**** Thanks to its ludicrous wind rush, Britain is reeling with a combination of skyrocketing power prices and a grid on the brink of total collapse: Another Wind Power Collapse has Britain Scrambling to Keep its Lights On (Again) Now, in the mother of all ironies, Brits are turning to the most inefficient and costly … Continue reading UK’s Wind ‘Powered’ Disaster: Britain to Roll Out Thousands of Diesel Generators for 1.5GW of Wind Farm ‘Back-Up’
Another Wind Power Collapse has Britain Scrambling to Keep its Lights On (Again)
**** There's an old adage about 'bad luck' coming in threes. For the wind industry its rotten 'luck' seems to run in endless crashing waves. Here's another board-snapping set from the UK. National Grid uses ‘last resort’ measures to keep UK lights on The Telegraph Emily Gosden 4 November 2015 Coal plant breakdowns and low … Continue reading Another Wind Power Collapse has Britain Scrambling to Keep its Lights On (Again)
The Wind is ‘Free’ Myth – Totally Busted: the True & Staggering Cost of Wind Power
Wind worshippers continue to make wild claims about wind power already being “free” – and, apparently, getting cheaper all the time. Although, it appears that selling a product with no commercial value (apart from the massive subsidies it attracts) is getting tougher all the time. Even the merest mention of a cut to subsidies has … Continue reading The Wind is ‘Free’ Myth – Totally Busted: the True & Staggering Cost of Wind Power
VW Mk II: Wind Industry’s Acoustic Consultants Caught In Noise ‘Standard’ Scandal
**** Wind farm noise report ‘parallels VW scandal’, MP claims Western Morning News P Goodwin 22 October 2015 A new report co-authored in the Westcountry exposes “two decades of deception” from the wind industry about the effect of turbines on health of near neighbours, an MP claimed. The Independent Noise Working Group (INWG) has used … Continue reading VW Mk II: Wind Industry’s Acoustic Consultants Caught In Noise ‘Standard’ Scandal
UK Wind Industry Collapses as David Cameron Slashes Subsidies for Wind Power
**** While the wind industry, its parasites and spruikers continue to wail like banshees about dreaded ‘uncertainty’ all over the globe, there seems to be another ‘certainty’ keen to muscle up alongside the usual pair cited as examples of dead-set certainties in life: “death and taxes”. The newest absolute certainty is that, in the absence … Continue reading UK Wind Industry Collapses as David Cameron Slashes Subsidies for Wind Power
Britain’s Economic Nightmare Unfolds: Wind Power Costs Killing Thousands of REAL Jobs
**** A few posts back we focused on the naked malice of Labor's Bill Shorten - as he derided Joanne Kermond on national television. Joanne is among the many victims of Pacific Hydro's non-compliant Cape Bridgewater disaster - an outfit owned by Bill's Labor/Union buddies, which has been defrauding the Commonwealth for nearly 7 years: … Continue reading Britain’s Economic Nightmare Unfolds: Wind Power Costs Killing Thousands of REAL Jobs
Wind Farms: Trigger ‘OUTRAGE’ When Proposed & ‘REJOICING’ When Scrapped
**** Rural communities across the Globe are fighting back against an industry with all the natural respect for property rights of Genghis Khan; and the moral fibre of Judas Iscariot. These days, whenever a wind farm is proposed; or the developer is out in the field - literally 'thumping' its message home (see our post … Continue reading Wind Farms: Trigger ‘OUTRAGE’ When Proposed & ‘REJOICING’ When Scrapped
David Cameron Terminates UK’s Wind Industry: Subsidies to be Completely Scrapped
**** David Cameron won an election promising to scrap wind power subsidies; and plans to follow through - with terminal results for the wind industry in Britain. UK Pledges To Ax Green Energy Subsidies Daily Caller Andrew Follett 15 October 2015 The United Kingdom is pledging to end all green energy subsidies by the mid-2020s. “By … Continue reading David Cameron Terminates UK’s Wind Industry: Subsidies to be Completely Scrapped
