US “Wind Power States” Pull the Plug on Massive Wind Power Subsidy Schemes

**** This time last year, we took a look at the States in the US where $billions filched from power consumers and taxpayers have been thrown at wind power outfits, as a massive, and seemingly endless, stream of subsidies; and the skyrocketing power prices that have been the result: Want skyrocketing power prices? Just add … Continue reading US “Wind Power States” Pull the Plug on Massive Wind Power Subsidy Schemes

Turbine Hosts’ Lament: Hammered by Wind Power Outfits; Hated by Former Friends, Relatives & Neighbours

**** After years of being shunned by former friends and neighbours for introducing turbines into their communities (or signing up for that to happen in future), many turbine hosts are keen to wind the clock back and make amends. Community division, angry former friends and hostile neighbours are just one aspect of what’s causing actual … Continue reading Turbine Hosts’ Lament: Hammered by Wind Power Outfits; Hated by Former Friends, Relatives & Neighbours

US Take on the Colossal Subsidies ‘Essential’ For Wind Power Outfits to Survive

**** As the world wakes up to scale and scope of the great wind power fraud, the numbers men have started to put pen to paper, in an effort to get a proper bead on the size of the massive subsidies being filched from power consumers and taxpayers, and pocketed by wind power outfits - … Continue reading US Take on the Colossal Subsidies ‘Essential’ For Wind Power Outfits to Survive

Conscience Bites Commissioner for Approving Wind Farm & Causing Hatred & Division

**** 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

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