**** Earlier this week, a small, but very effective, nuclear device was detonated at Cape Bridewater, which - before Union Super Funds backed Pacific Hydro destroyed it - was a pristine, coastal idyll in South-Western Victoria. The bomb that went off was a study carried out by one of Australia’s crack acoustic specialists, Steven Cooper … Continue reading Steven Cooper’s Cape Bridgewater Wind Farm Study the Beginning of the End for the Wind Industry
Tag: Clean Energy Council
Wind Industry Keeps Losing ‘Hearts and Minds’: Community Opposition Rolls & Builds
**** Remember all the guff about everyone just “loving” wind farms: you know, the spin trotted out by wind industry spruikers - like the Clean Energy Council - in Mickey Mouse “surveys” that claim 150% of your compatriots just can’t wait to spear thousands of giant fans into YOUR slice of heaven (not theirs, of … Continue reading Wind Industry Keeps Losing ‘Hearts and Minds’: Community Opposition Rolls & Builds
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
Senator John Madigan Skewers Simon Chapman
Victorian Senator, John Madigan delivered an utterly brilliant speech in the Commonwealth Senate this week. See the video below; Hansard (transcript) follows. As to the Senator, John Madigan provides a salient example of what can happen when decency, integrity and courage all combine in defence of the weak and vulnerable among us; and in pursuit … Continue reading Senator John Madigan Skewers Simon Chapman
Alan Moran: time to Terminate the Great RET Scam
**** Alan Moran took on the role of RET “Terminator” some time back (see our post here). For Alan the driving question is not: “are you John Connor?” – it’s more like “are you Miles George?” – or any other wind industry rent-seeker hoping to continue stealing from Australian power punters, for that matter. But … Continue reading Alan Moran: time to Terminate the Great RET Scam
Wind Power Myths BUSTED
**** As the Australian wind industry’s house of cards collapses, its parasites and paid spruikers - like the Clean Energy Council - have been working up a real sweat in their efforts to make a case for the retention of the mandatory Renewable Energy Target - upon which that house of cards entirely depends. All … Continue reading Wind Power Myths BUSTED
Australia’s Treasurer, Joe Hockey says: Stop These Things!
**** Last Friday, the Federal Treasurer, Joe Hockey (aka Shrek) met with Alan Jones on his Breakfast radio show on 2GB. And what he had to say about giant fans has sent the wind industry and its parasites into fits of apoplexy. Predictably, the usual suspects - eco-fascist bloggers, the ABC and Fairfax Press - … Continue reading Australia’s Treasurer, Joe Hockey says: Stop These Things!
Wind Power: Failing to “win hearts & minds” – or “when push comes to shove”
Wherever it tries to set up shop these days, the wind industry faces growing “community opposition”. This “dreadful” phenomenon has arisen all over the world. Could the "soundtrack" to this video provide a clue, perhaps? **** **** Covered in this post - Cape Bridgewater locals have not only had to tolerate an endless barrage of … Continue reading Wind Power: Failing to “win hearts & minds” – or “when push comes to shove”
Want skyrocketing power prices? Just add Wind Power
**** With the Coalition’s review of the insanely expensive and utterly ineffective Renewable Energy Target (ineffective if the object was meant to be reducing CO2 emissions in the electricity sector) headed up by a team of hard-nosed economic rationalists, ready to take an axe to most ludicrous energy policy ever devised, the wind industry and … Continue reading Want skyrocketing power prices? Just add Wind Power
Burchell Wilson: The RET is corporate welfare on a massive scale
The Government's review of the impact of the RET on power prices is expected to result in either a massive cut to the renewable energy target - or the scrapping of it outright - a move backed by the Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry's Chief Economist Burchell Wilson. Burchell Wilson has already given the … Continue reading Burchell Wilson: The RET is corporate welfare on a massive scale