A little while ago one of our readers posted a comment including what would appear to be a fairly simple question, The Callous Wind wrote: I have a request for STT. Would you be able to please explain to us mere mortals, how the REC’s do actually work? There seems to be a lot of … Continue reading The RET & the REC: the anatomy of a National fraud
Category: What’s that smell? Sorry
Union Fenosa’s dirty little secrets
Just who are we getting into bed with when we allow foreign multinational wind companies free range to pillage rural Australia communities? Spanish-owned Union Fenosa is behind eight wind projects across NSW and Victoria. Four have been approved and four are in the planning stage. But this company has been accused of serious human rights … Continue reading Union Fenosa’s dirty little secrets
Umpire Red Cards the wind industry in Victoria – Infigen cops a gobful of dirt
Congratulations go out to the hundred or so members and supporters of the Trawool Valley and Whiteheads Creek Landscape Guardians who fought that ol’ STT favourite, Infigen, to a standstill over its Cherry Tree Range wind farm proposal. You’ll remember STT bathing Infigen’s star performer, Laura Dunphy, in glory over the “porkies” she told locals … Continue reading Umpire Red Cards the wind industry in Victoria – Infigen cops a gobful of dirt
Friends of the Corrupt and Greedy
To Leigh Ewbank, Friends of the Earth, Melbourne. Dear Leigh, We note the flurry of press releases and posts about the junk science recently produced by your friend, the well-known wind industry advocate Simon Chapman, and also your displeasure at Premier Denis Napthine's statements about retaining the 2km buffer distance for new wind developments. So, … Continue reading Friends of the Corrupt and Greedy
The wind industry’s lies dissected
Just like this, only more expensive and more annoying. And at least this doesn't make you sick. From an STT special correspondent Go to http://windfarmperformance.info and look at the page for March 25, 2013. Web site author Andrew Miskelly tells us there is 2513 MW of installed capacity from wind farms on the eastern Australian … Continue reading The wind industry’s lies dissected
Stop flip-flopping on the RET, Greg. Do it. Do it now.
See the article below from the Sydney Morning Herald. Opposition climate spokesman Greg Hunt needs to consider the full cost of the RET. If the REC goes to $95, then a 3MW turbine will receive around $1million worth of RECs every year until 2031. The REC subsidy alone will reap the industry $50-60billion over the … Continue reading Stop flip-flopping on the RET, Greg. Do it. Do it now.
I’m Keeping the Lights on for Earth Hour
This post first appeared on The Daily Bell. By Anthony Wile US News tells us that libertarians want to "keep the lights on" for the current Earth Hour. Earth Hour is a worldwide event organized by the World Wildlife Fund (WWF), "encouraging households and businesses to turn off their non-essential lights from 8:30 p.m. to … Continue reading I’m Keeping the Lights on for Earth Hour
We smell fear and loathing in the wind energy sector
Can you smell it? It's currently just a hint of Canberra breeze, a waft of something sour. But it's definitely there. The smell of fear and loathing. Recently, the head of Origin Energy, Grant King, hammered the Renewable Energy Target scheme and the Gillard government's carbon tax. King told an audience of business heavies the … Continue reading We smell fear and loathing in the wind energy sector
The New Coliseum Order – for the righteous only
By a guest contributor A cackle of Australian Concrete Greens has taken a page out of history and created a new twist on the Roman habit of creating savage games for the amusement of the ignorant masses. It involves a virtual coliseum, basically any windy site near transmission infrastructure, to create a modern Australian version … Continue reading The New Coliseum Order – for the righteous only
Hard data on why wind energy is bullshit
“Lessons from New York” (This post appeared on windturbinesyndrome.com.) — Jack Sullivan, MS (Nuclear Physics, Cornell University), Rutland Herald 14/2/13 As Vermonters grapple with the pros and cons of industrial wind power, many of their questions may be answered by studying thetrack record of northern New York wind projects. This area has been host to … Continue reading Hard data on why wind energy is bullshit
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