The wind industry is copping a flogging all over the World. Increasingly, as the industry's lies and propaganda are replaced by facts, more and more are coming to the obvious conclusion: THESE THINGS DON'T WORK - on any level. Getting there was only a matter of time. What has surprised STT is not that journos, … Continue reading 11 Fatal Flaws with Wind Power
Category: USA
Illinois Appeals Board Slams 127 Turbine Wind Farm Proposal Due to Excess Noise Health Effects & Loss of Neighbours’ Property Values
**** It doesn't usually take the law long to catch up with good old common sense, as this decision by Illinois' Bureau County Zoning Board of Appeals attests. Zoning board denies wind turbines applications Bureau County Republican Barb Amrein 30 December 2015 Bureau County Zoning Board of Appeals finds application to build 127 industrial wind … Continue reading Illinois Appeals Board Slams 127 Turbine Wind Farm Proposal Due to Excess Noise Health Effects & Loss of Neighbours’ Property Values
Fraud in Falmouth MA – Town Relied on Acoustic Consultants’ Faked Vestas Wind Turbine Noise Report
There aren’t many certainties in life, save death and taxes. But STT is happy to add - without reservation - to that short-list, another: that you’ll never find the words ‘integrity’ and ‘wind industry’ coupling up in the same sentence. Lies, fraud and corruption are the norm; and that extends to the industry’s pet acoustic … Continue reading Fraud in Falmouth MA – Town Relied on Acoustic Consultants’ Faked Vestas Wind Turbine Noise Report
US Democrat – John Rodgers Slams the Great Wind Power Fraud & Wind Industry Corruption
Vermont Democrat Announces “Wind Turbines Do Not Belong In Vermont, Period:” NoTricksZone Pierre Gosselin 13 December 2015 The online Vermont news site Vermont Digger here presents a commentary by Vermont state Senator John Rodgers who represents my childhood home county of Orleans, and Essex county as well. Photo: Industrializing Vermont’s idyllic landscape. Cropped from video … Continue reading US Democrat – John Rodgers Slams the Great Wind Power Fraud & Wind Industry Corruption
Injunction Sought to Protect Neighbours’ Health from Wind Farm Noise
**** A couple of weeks back we covered the story from South Plymouth, Massachusetts, where the Bourne Board of Health is asking selectmen to authorize Town Counsel Robert S. Troy to request a court injunction — expressly to halt the construction of a threatened wind-farm. The action is grounded in 'noise nuisance', which we covered … Continue reading Injunction Sought to Protect Neighbours’ Health from Wind Farm Noise
Falmouth’s Fiasco: 8 Years in the Slammer for Bent Politician Responsible for Massachusetts’ Wind Power Disaster
**** The wind industry seems to attract a particular class of bloke, in much the same way that the Prohibition era drew lots of heavy-set Italians to the Mob. Maybe that seemingly endless stream of massive subsidies filched from taxpayers and power consumers generates the same allure as festering dung does for swarms of flies? … Continue reading Falmouth’s Fiasco: 8 Years in the Slammer for Bent Politician Responsible for Massachusetts’ Wind Power Disaster
Cost of Wind Power Outstrips Coal, Gas, Hydro & Nukes by a Country Mile
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 an unwinnable battle. Even the merest mention of a cut to subsidies has the wind … Continue reading Cost of Wind Power Outstrips Coal, Gas, Hydro & Nukes by a Country Mile
Wind Industry’s CO2 Emission Reduction Claims a ‘Cloak of Deception’
**** Vermont Renewable Energy Program Increases State’s Carbon Footprint Littleton Record Dr. Ron Holland 17 September 2015 In 2005 the Vermont Legislature passed renewable energy legislation establishing the SPEED program. SPEED was repealed in 2015 with legislation initially called RESET. The name RESET has been dropped as leaders thought that the name implied that SPEED … Continue reading Wind Industry’s CO2 Emission Reduction Claims a ‘Cloak of Deception’
The Wind Industry: After 30 Years, It’s Time to Remove the Training Wheels
**** At an economic level, subsidising the production of a good or the provision of a service makes sense where there is complete market failure, such that the good or service will never be supplied (or only at a price which is practically un-affordable to the majority of consumers); and where the total benefit to … Continue reading The Wind Industry: After 30 Years, It’s Time to Remove the Training Wheels
California’s Wind ‘Powered’ Dream Turns to Nightmare: Power Prices 40% Higher than US Average
**** The hidden costs of wind, solar power The Sun Neil Derry 13 November 2015 The state of California has embarked on a 25-year green power odyssey in an effort to reduce the amount of CO2 we place into the atmosphere, all aimed at leading the world in an anti-climate change crusade for humanity. Beginning … Continue reading California’s Wind ‘Powered’ Dream Turns to Nightmare: Power Prices 40% Higher than US Average
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