Category: UK

Rocketing Power Prices see Subsidies Slashed, Bringing Europe’s Wind Industry to its Knees

**** The Australian wind industry is copping a belting from all sides at the moment. With the Senate Inquiry about to release its final report on the great wind power fraud; retailers flatly refusing to enter long-term Power Purchase Agreements - essential to obtain finance for new wind farms; and with an increasing number of … Continue reading Rocketing Power Prices see Subsidies Slashed, Bringing Europe’s Wind Industry to its Knees

UK’s Wind Power Debacle Deepens: Widespread Winter Blackouts Forecast

**** The lunatics that push wind power are being forced to face up to the fact that it is - and will always be - meaningless as a power generation source. Which to the sane and rational is no surprise: a 'system' that relies on the vagaries of the weather isn't a 'system' - it's … Continue reading UK’s Wind Power Debacle Deepens: Widespread Winter Blackouts Forecast

Wind Farms Even More Expensive And Pointless Than You Thought

**** Study: Wind Farms Even More Expensive And Pointless Than You Thought Breitbart.com James Delingpole 5 July 2015 The cost of wind energy is significantly more expensive than its advocates pretend, a new US study has found: available here. If you believe this chart produced by the US Energy Information Administration (EIA), then onshore wind … Continue reading Wind Farms Even More Expensive And Pointless Than You Thought

Deliverance for Brits: David Cameron Empties Subsidy Trough & 250 Wind Farms Get Scrapped

**** The wind industry isn’t powered by wind; it’s fuelled by massive and endless subsidies. If ever that proposition needed support, then events in the UK since David Cameron’s election win provide plenty. 250 onshore windfarms will be scrapped as taxpayer subsidies are axed Daily Express John Ingham 22 June 2015 LARGE swathes of the … Continue reading Deliverance for Brits: David Cameron Empties Subsidy Trough & 250 Wind Farms Get Scrapped

There’s Only One Problem with Claims that Wind Power ‘Kills Coal’: and that’s the Wind

**** The fact that wind power depends on the ..... ahem ... wind is the biggest bugbear to eco-fascist plans for giant fan domination across the globe; and their ultimate mission to go "fossil free" - they mean abstaining from the use of "fossil fuel", rather than ceasing to rely on T-Rex and his - … Continue reading There’s Only One Problem with Claims that Wind Power ‘Kills Coal’: and that’s the Wind

Subsidies Scrapped: Scots Rejoice at Wind Industry’s Demise – Time for a Wee Highland Fling

**** The Scots are a tenacious bunch; and their history is a pungent mix of romance and tragedy. Legendary characters like William Wallace - who - single-handed - raised a fearsome Highland revolt - muscled up against the English invaders, time and time again. Wallace, with Andrew Moray gave a well-trained and drilled English army … Continue reading Subsidies Scrapped: Scots Rejoice at Wind Industry’s Demise – Time for a Wee Highland Fling

David Cameron: the Shropshire Wind Farm Slasher

**** Plans to build wind farms in Shropshire and Mid Wales ‘dead in the water’ Shropshire Star 8 June 2015 Plans to build wind farms and pylons across Shropshire and Mid Wales are “dead in the water” after Prime Minister David Cameron ruled out future subsidies. Montgomeryshire MP Glyn Davies said today he was confident … Continue reading David Cameron: the Shropshire Wind Farm Slasher

Doomed UK Wind Power Outfits Reduced to Idle Legal Threats

**** The Guardian (both in its home territory, the UK and in its doppelganger Australian version) is the ecofacists’ megaphone – and is duly lapped up with relish by the intellectual pygmies of the hard-‘green’-left or – as James Delingpole aptly dubbed them; “greentards”. Both here and in the UK, The Guardian has been the … Continue reading Doomed UK Wind Power Outfits Reduced to Idle Legal Threats

Brits’ Wind Power Nightmare to End Soon: Tories Set to Take the Axe to Subsidies

**** Contrasting with the delusions that continue to grip Australian’s political betters in Canberra (see our post here), sensible governments are rapidly retreating from the brink of energy market madness. The Americans are pulling the plug on Federal and State based subsidies for wind power outfits. Its ‘wind power’ states have cut their state based … Continue reading Brits’ Wind Power Nightmare to End Soon: Tories Set to Take the Axe to Subsidies

UK’s Wind Industry in Meltdown: Cameron to Flush-Out DECC’s Detritus

**** The wind industry's current form reminds STT of Simon Pegg's character in 'How to Lose Friends and Alienate People', Sidney Young - blunt, gormless, and ready to pull out all stops to ensure every one who counts hates him. Now that they've lost the grip on the game in countries where they thought they … Continue reading UK’s Wind Industry in Meltdown: Cameron to Flush-Out DECC’s Detritus