**** Renewable energy handouts winding down The Australian Graham Lloyd 6 August 2015 There is a real-world example of what can happen when subsidies are cut and greater scrutiny is applied to renewable energy projects, buried in the pages of the much maligned Senate committee report into wind turbines and health. In January 2012, following … Continue reading The Wind Industry’s Days of ‘Wine & Roses’ are Over: Australian Senate says Massive Subsidies Should End
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The Wind Industry: Always and Everywhere the Result of Massive & Endless Subsidies (Part 1)
**** In Australia, the wind industry exists - and ONLY exists - to wallow in a subsidy stream which will hit $3 billion annually in 2019; and continue at that colossal rate until 2031. The cost of the greatest subsidy rort in the history of the Commonwealth will exceed $45 billion - every last cent … Continue reading The Wind Industry: Always and Everywhere the Result of Massive & Endless Subsidies (Part 1)
The Wind Power Fraud (in pictures): Part 2 – The Whole Eastern Grid Debacle
**** Yesterday, we laid out the wind power fraud in pictures, as it's perpetrated in, what's referred to as, 'Australia's wind power capital', South Australia: The Wind Power Fraud (in pictures): Part 1 – the South Australian Wind Farm Fiasco To call the 'performance' of SA's 17 wind farms (spread over a vast area of … Continue reading The Wind Power Fraud (in pictures): Part 2 – The Whole Eastern Grid Debacle
The Wind Power Fraud (in pictures): Part 1 – the South Australian Wind Farm Fiasco
**** In today's post we lay out the wind power fraud in pictures, as it’s perpetrated in, what’s referred to as, ‘Australia’s wind power capital’, South Australia (we expand the net to capture the debacle on the entire Eastern Grid - see our post here). To call the ‘performance’ of SA’s 17 wind farms (spread … Continue reading The Wind Power Fraud (in pictures): Part 1 – the South Australian Wind Farm Fiasco
Australian Wind Industry’s ‘Armageddon’: PM Chops Public Finance for Wind Power
**** To call the mood amongst the wind industry, its parasites and spruikers “hysterical” is mastery in understatement. Their future is not just dark and dismal; it’s heading from catastrophic to cataclysmic. On every battlefront the wind industry is taking a pounding. New research confirming adverse health effects caused by incessant low-frequency noise and infrasound … Continue reading Australian Wind Industry’s ‘Armageddon’: PM Chops Public Finance for Wind Power
Greg Hunt Delivers Coalition’s Political Suicide Manifesto: Liberals Lock-In $46 Billion Power Tax as Wind Industry Rescue Package
**** The wind industry in Australia is doomed. Australia’s commercial lending institutions know it (calling in their loans and refusing to lend for any new wind farms). And the wind industry knows it - hence the big players’ frantic efforts to ditch their wind farms, cut and run – although these fire sales are as … Continue reading Greg Hunt Delivers Coalition’s Political Suicide Manifesto: Liberals Lock-In $46 Billion Power Tax as Wind Industry Rescue Package
Wind Industry Armageddon: Power Retailers Win Round One in Battle to Kill LRET
**** As STT has pointed out, just once or twice, the policy debacle that is the Large-Scale Renewable Energy Target (LRET) is completely unsustainable, on every level: economic, social and political. In the absence of the mandated subsidies (“the carrot”) directed to wind power outfits, and the mandated penalties (“the stick”) whacked on retailers under … Continue reading Wind Industry Armageddon: Power Retailers Win Round One in Battle to Kill LRET
Steven Cooper’s Cape Bridgewater Bombshell Sends Wind Industry into Flat Panic
**** In the three weeks or so that have passed since Steven Cooper’s Cape Bridgewater wind farm noise study hit the press (see our post here) the wind industry, its parasites and spruikers have been in absolute panic mode. Pacific Hydro - the operator of the Cape Bridgewater disaster, which paid for the study, but … Continue reading Steven Cooper’s Cape Bridgewater Bombshell Sends Wind Industry into Flat Panic
It Don’t Take Sherlock to Know; When the Wind Don’t Blow, The Power Don’t Flow
**** STT has - just once or twice - smashed the myth that wind power can provide a meaningful supply of electricity (ie power "on-demand") - and relegated to the fiction aisle the the wind industry's "playbook", where you'll find, in bold print, the oft-told furphy about wind farms "powering" 10s of thousands of homes. … Continue reading It Don’t Take Sherlock to Know; When the Wind Don’t Blow, The Power Don’t Flow
Wind Industry RUNS & HIDES as World Wakes Up to the Great Wind Power Fraud
**** Around the world, people are waking up to the scale, scope and magnitude of the great wind power fraud. Rural communities are fighting back hard - in efforts to protect their homes, health and well-being. Their anger extends to the goons that lied their way to development approval – and the bent officials that … Continue reading Wind Industry RUNS & HIDES as World Wakes Up to the Great Wind Power Fraud
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