Tag: Clean Energy Council

“Astroturfing” – how the real pros do it

In our post “Who can it be now?” - we struggled with the concept of “astroturfing” - Lucy from accounts reckoned it was about falling over while playing hockey. **** You see, the eco-fascists and their puppets - the greentards - think that STT is a professionally run political lobby group backed by big coal … Continue reading “Astroturfing” – how the real pros do it

Red Faces at the Victorian Department of Health

A week or so ago, the wind industry and its parasites crowed about a report released by the Victorian Department of Health, with even more than the usual whiff of desperation. The report was touted by the Clean Energy Council as a complete exoneration on all charges, sins and omissions. What a pity it contained … Continue reading Red Faces at the Victorian Department of Health

Vestas is deceiving the public when it portrays itself as an ethical and moral company

"Is it really good export policy to dispatch a man like McAlpine to run errands on behalf of Vestas?" Occupational medicine specialist Doctor Mauri Johansson gave the following speech at the general meeting of Vestas, a wind turbine manufacturer. The speech was given last year. We reproduce it here in full. (And don't forget to … Continue reading Vestas is deceiving the public when it portrays itself as an ethical and moral company

Victims: Melissa Ware and Rikki Nicholson

STT would like to introduce you to Melissa Ware and Rikki Nicholson who live near Pacific Hydro's Cape Bridgewater Wind Farm, or Industrial Wind Factory as Rikki prefers to call it. It was only when they went and returned holidays that they realised that their annoying symptoms were related to being at their home. They … Continue reading Victims: Melissa Ware and Rikki Nicholson

Another example of a wind farm’s low ecological impact and visual amenity

And then there's what happens after a catastrophe. The picture below is of a turbine at Starfish Hill Wind Farm, Fleurieu Peninsula, South Australia. The turbine caught fire October 30, 2010. This picture was taken by pilot Bob Page in late February, 2011. Debris was still scattered everywhere at least four months after the fire. … Continue reading Another example of a wind farm’s low ecological impact and visual amenity

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

To Lane Crockett, do you know what you’re doing to people?

Lane Crockett is the general manager, Australia, at Pacific Hydro. He is also a director at the Clean Energy Council. According to its website, Pacific Hydro operates six wind farms with another six under development. Below is a statement to him from Melissa Ware, a resident at Cape Bridgewater in Victoria. The wind farm consists … Continue reading To Lane Crockett, do you know what you’re doing to people?

The wind farm industry’s licence to kill

If you believe the wind industry and its lobby groups, this is the image (above) that depicts their operations: clean, harmless and efficient. Repeatedly, the wind industry says turbines do no harm to birds, or to such a small number it doesn't matter. This is a lie. The truth is that turbines are tenacious killers … Continue reading The wind farm industry’s licence to kill

More propaganda from Herr Marsh of the Stasi

Recently, the South Australian Environment Protection Authority and a company called Resonate Acoustics issued a joint paper called "Infrasound levels near windfarms and in other environments". The report claimed to have measured infrasound at a variety of locations, including urban and rural environments, both in the vicinity of wind developments and elsewhere. Resonate do a … Continue reading More propaganda from Herr Marsh of the Stasi