**** As the world wakes up to the scale and scope of the great wind power fraud - its inordinate cost to power consumers and taxpayers - the state-sponsored, malfeasance of the wind power outfits that ride the subsidy gravy train, and roughshod over hard-working rural people - and the bitter community division and hatred … Continue reading Conscience Bites Commissioner for Approving Wind Farm & Causing Hatred & Division
Category: USA
The Wind Industry: You Know It’s a ‘Ponzi’ Scheme When its Targets Include Schools & Councils
**** STT has pointed out just a few times that the wind industry is little more than the most recent and elaborate Ponzi scheme in a list that dates back to “corporate investment classics”, like the South-Sea Bubble and Dutch tulip mania. In the wind industry, the scam is all about pitching bogus projected returns … Continue reading The Wind Industry: You Know It’s a ‘Ponzi’ Scheme When its Targets Include Schools & Councils
Wind Industry’s Bogus Claims about “Powering” Millions of Homes Scorched
**** The hackneyed myth that wind power “powers” millions of homes with wonderful “free” wind energy is taking a beating around the globe (see our post here). The idea that a wholly weather dependent power generation source can ever be – as is touted endlessly by the wind industry and its parasites – an “alternative” … Continue reading Wind Industry’s Bogus Claims about “Powering” Millions of Homes Scorched
$Billions in Endless Wind Power Subsidies: Nothing Short of State Sponsored Theft
Here's a couple of pieces penned by boys who start from the right end of the great wind power fraud equation. Randy T. Simmons, Ph.D., is director of the Institute for Political Economy and professor of political economy at Utah State University. He also serves as president of Strata Policy, a public policy think … Continue reading $Billions in Endless Wind Power Subsidies: Nothing Short of State Sponsored Theft
Wind Power Outfit Rails Against Wind Turbine Infrasound Rules
**** Suncor wants much of Plympton-Wyoming’s noise bylaw axed The Independent 25 February 2015 A Suncor Energy representative calls Plympton-Wyoming’s noise bylaw “a novel approach” but wants much of the bylaw changed. Suncor Energy is planning a 43-industrial turbine project around Camlachie. It’s the subject of an Environmental Review Tribunal Hearing. But the town has … Continue reading Wind Power Outfit Rails Against Wind Turbine Infrasound Rules
US Wind Industry Rallies to Prevent Research into Adverse Health Effects Caused by Low-Frequency Turbine Noise
**** Scott Walker’s Budget Includes $250,000 To Study ‘Wind Energy System-Related Health Issues’ Huffington Post Kate Sheppard 2 February 2015 The two-year, $68 billion budget proposal Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker unveiled Tuesday includes a request for $250,000 to study the health impacts of wind turbines. Page 449 of the budget proposal includes a recommendation from … Continue reading US Wind Industry Rallies to Prevent Research into Adverse Health Effects Caused by Low-Frequency Turbine Noise
US Wind Industry Shudders as Senate Lines Up to Slam the PTC Subsidy Scam
**** Senate votes down PTC amendment E&E Daily Nick Juliano 29 January 2015 A majority of the Senate went on record yesterday against reinstating an expired renewable energy tax credit through the end of the decade. The 47-51 failure of a nonbinding measure calling for a five-year extension of the production tax credit (PTC) delivered … Continue reading US Wind Industry Shudders as Senate Lines Up to Slam the PTC Subsidy Scam
US Wind Farm Operator Settles to Shut Down Neighbours’ Dynamite Damages Case
**** A telling-scene there, from the film A Civil Action; which is pretty much how things panned out for a US wind farm operator in Michigan recently. STT has been following a monumental piece of litigation that blew up over the Lake Winds wind farm in Mason County, for a while now (see our posts … Continue reading US Wind Farm Operator Settles to Shut Down Neighbours’ Dynamite Damages Case
2 Year Old Siemens Turbines Falling Apart: Wind Farm Investors, Get Out While You Can
These days, the spontaneous combustion of wind turbines is an occurrence so common that STT is thinking about opening a sub-branch that deals exclusively with their terrifying pyrotechnic-melt-downs. Giant fan conflagrations are 10 times more common than the wind industry and its parasites will ever admit (see our post here). And these unscheduled fireworks shows … Continue reading 2 Year Old Siemens Turbines Falling Apart: Wind Farm Investors, Get Out While You Can
More Wind Power Outfits Go Bust: “Farmer-Investors” Lose their Shirts in the US
**** In Australia, the wind industry is in total melt-down, with many of its "BIG" players on the brink of financial collapse. And the dreadful "uncertainty" about the willingness of governments to continue fleecing power consumers and taxpayers - in order to keep throwing massive subsidies at the greatest rort of all time (which, on … Continue reading More Wind Power Outfits Go Bust: “Farmer-Investors” Lose their Shirts in the US
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