We’ve reported on just how rotten the wind industry is – from top to bottom – and whether it’s bribery and fraud; vote rigging scandals; tax fraud; investor fraud or REC fraud – wind weasels set a uniform standard that would make most businessman blush. Struggling Danish fan maker, Vestas set the benchmark a while … Continue reading Sex, Lies and Videotape: NextEra “Won” Wind Farm Approval by getting its Operative to Bonk Top Government Adviser
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More MET Mast Mayhem: Community Defenders Drop Mast in Fight to Save Homes near Bangor, Maine
**** The MET masts used by developers to gauge wind speeds are the vanguard for every wind farm disaster: no MET mast data, no wind farm. As soon as they go up, the locals circle their wagons, marshal their forces and declare war on the developer. No surprises there. With the wind industry on the … Continue reading More MET Mast Mayhem: Community Defenders Drop Mast in Fight to Save Homes near Bangor, Maine
The Wind Industry’s Need for Massive Subsidies: The Never Ending Story
**** Wind Power Is Intermittent, But Subsidies Are Eternal Wall Street Journal Tim Phillips 1 December 2014 “Tax credits have been essential to the economic viability of wind farms so far, but will not be needed within a few years.” So said Christopher Flavin, now president emeritus of the Worldwatch Institute - in 1984. Thirty … Continue reading The Wind Industry’s Need for Massive Subsidies: The Never Ending Story
Ohio Joins Global Effort to Slam the Door on Big Wind
Around the world, rural communities are fighting back hard against the great wind power fraud. Wherever wind farms have appeared – or have been threatened – big numbers of locals take a set against the monsters being speared into their previously peaceful – and often idyllic – rural communities. Their anger extends to the goons … Continue reading Ohio Joins Global Effort to Slam the Door on Big Wind
Germany’s Wind Power Disaster: An Economic & Environmental Failure
**** The Germans went into wind power harder and faster than anyone else – and the cost of doing so is catching up with a vengeance. The subsidies have been colossal, the impacts on the electricity market chaotic and – contrary to the environmental purpose of the policy – CO2 emissions are rising fast: if … Continue reading Germany’s Wind Power Disaster: An Economic & Environmental Failure
Institute for Energy Research Takes the Scalpel to the Great Wind Power Fraud
As time goes by, the number of crack energy market experts joining the effort to bring the great wind power fraud to its inevitable denouement – and the quality of their work directed at that fine and noble task – has increased exponentially. The American "Institute for Energy Research" has just released a brilliant piece … Continue reading Institute for Energy Research Takes the Scalpel to the Great Wind Power Fraud
Alan Jones interviews David Leyonhjelm on the Senate’s Inquiry Into the Great Wind Power Fraud & Cross-Bench LRET Plan
**** The wind industry in Australia is in full-scale panic because the Senate's cross-benchers (who hold the balance of power in the Upper House) have won Coalition support for their Inquiry into the great wind power fraud: which will turn a (long-overdue) blowtorch on the biggest rort in Australian history (see our post here). Adding … Continue reading Alan Jones interviews David Leyonhjelm on the Senate’s Inquiry Into the Great Wind Power Fraud & Cross-Bench LRET Plan
Google’s Top Engineers say: “Renewable Energy Simply Won’t Work”
**** Renewable energy ‘simply WON’T WORK’: Top Google engineers The Register Lewis Page 21 November 2014 Windmills, solar, tidal - all a ‘false hope’, say Stanford PhDs Two highly qualified Google engineers who have spent years studying and trying to improve renewable energy technology have stated quite bluntly that renewables will never permit the human … Continue reading Google’s Top Engineers say: “Renewable Energy Simply Won’t Work”
Civil Actions: Wind Farm Litigation Breakout in the US
**** Back in February, a Michigan Judge ordered wind power outfit, Consumers Energy to produce a plan to rid its Lake Winds wind farm of excessive noise levels (see our post here). It elected not to; and, instead, appealed that decision. On the second round, the court again found that noise levels from the operator’s … Continue reading Civil Actions: Wind Farm Litigation Breakout in the US
Wind Farm Victims – Ocotillo, California: Wind Turbine Noise is a “Horror Beyond Words”
Ocotillo Residents say Wind Turbine Noise Creates “LIVING HELL” eastcountymagazine.org 14 November 2014 “It’s a horror beyond words; something you have to live to understand. Something must be done to stop the noise.” – Ocotillo resident Parke Ewing November 14, 2014 (Ocotillo) – Residents in Ocotillo say that during windy conditions in early November, noise … Continue reading Wind Farm Victims – Ocotillo, California: Wind Turbine Noise is a “Horror Beyond Words”
