**** Gone with the wind farm Australian Financial Review Paul Comrie-Thomson 4 October 2013 One thousand new wind turbines a week or 52,000 a year would be needed just to keep pace with India and China’s coal burn. So, where to now in the climate debate? Dieter Helm, CBE, is eminently qualified to write about … Continue reading Gone With the Wind
Better Angry than Dead
The one thing that really messes with the greentard "mind" - for what it is - is the FACT that millions of birds and bats get clobbered and sliced every year by giant fans - hard to claim wind power is clean and "green" when the ground is littered with feathery carcasses. Brett Lane calls … Continue reading Better Angry than Dead
Giant fans fail to get Royal Stamp of Approval
Prince Harry is the latest Royal to question the impact of wind farms The Express Owen Bennett 11 May 2013 PRINCE HARRY has voiced his concerns over the visual impact of wind farms during his tour of America. The prince apparently raised the issue with the boss of Renewable Energy Systems Americas during a reception … Continue reading Giant fans fail to get Royal Stamp of Approval
Sleep – essential for Good Health
**** Sleep is essential for good health. THE most prevalent adverse health impact from giant industrial wind turbines is noise related sleep deprivation. We've covered the fact that Industrial Noise - is always and everywhere a public health issue. Here's a letter from Dr William Hallstein, a practising psychiatrist for over 40 years, to the … Continue reading Sleep – essential for Good Health
Money ain’t no “cure”
Guest writer, Jackie Rovensky, is renowned on STT for her comments, which stand out for their erudition, composition and unassailable logic. Here's Jackie in response to our favourite tobacco advertising guru who - once again - has elected to step well out of his limited area of "expertise". Jackie pops him neatly back into his … Continue reading Money ain’t no “cure”
Miliband off with the pixies as Brits brace for Winter of Discontent
STT has given quite a bit of coverage on how Britain’s insane rush to install hundreds of giant fans has led to power-price-penury in Ol’ Blighty – see our posts here, here and here. But it seems that energy policy hypocrisy in the UK has a new name – “Ed Miliband”. Ed apparently believes Britain … Continue reading Miliband off with the pixies as Brits brace for Winter of Discontent
Richard Paltridge – one man’s battle
Battling wind weasels, like Acciona, in Court has its own "special" charm - just ask Richard Paltridge. Dick won - his landmark planning case in South Australia, but his opponents - including the rotten little Rann, State Labor Government - pulled every slimy trick in the book along the way. Acciona - the subject of … Continue reading Richard Paltridge – one man’s battle
Hawaii Five-O
Here's the Huffington Post's take on the latest wind weasel shenanigans in Hawaii. STT thinks it sounds like a job for Steve McGarrett and his faithful side-kick, Danny "Danno" Williams. How Renewable Portfolio Standards Can Subvert Your Economy Huffington Post Hawaii Sally Kaye 10 September 2013 A strange thing happened on our way to a … Continue reading Hawaii Five-O
The Corruption of Wind Energy
The Corruption of Wind Energy energytribune Peter C Glover 1 February 2013 We always knew that wind power came with a heavy ‘social levy’. That social levy was the accepted high price that would ‘underpin’ the true initial cost of wind power until the industry ‘matured’. We would suffer its unreliability, its intermittence, its aesthetic … Continue reading The Corruption of Wind Energy
Hell hath no fury like Anne Schafer scorned
**** A few posts back we covered the excellent survey put together by STT Champion, Anne Schafer on the growing public health disaster at AGL's Macarthur wind farm. The turbine noise levels generated not only breach the conditions of AGL's planning consent, but drive the locals nuts night, after sleepless night. Non-compliant wind farms, like … Continue reading Hell hath no fury like Anne Schafer scorned
