**** Remember all those glowing stories about wind power outfits being welcomed into rural communities with open arms? You know, tales about how farmers are dying to have turbines lined up all over their properties? How locals can’t wait to pick up some of the thousands of permanent, high paying jobs on offer? How developers … Continue reading ‘Democracy’ in Jackboots: Wind Industry’s Government Stooges Threaten to Ignore 83% Vote Against Wind Power
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Community Defenders Winning Wind Farm Battle of Britain
*** In Britain, dogged community defenders are winning the Battle for Britain; skirmish by skirmish; village by village; town by town. The wind industry is being pummelled by an environment in which the massive and endless subsidies upon which the scam essentially depends have been slashed - never to return. And in which community defenders … Continue reading Community Defenders Winning Wind Farm Battle of Britain
Wind Farms: Crushing Property Rights & Values Everywhere
**** In Australia, hundreds of law-abiding rural citizens have had their valuable property rights permanently destroyed by wind power outfits - with knowing assistance from all levels of government. Property values for those unfortunate enough to be situated anywhere near these things, are a mere fraction of what they would otherwise be; and even the … Continue reading Wind Farms: Crushing Property Rights & Values Everywhere
‘Fighters’ Win: Another UK Wind Farm Scrapped in Response to Dogged Opposition
**** As the spruikers selling tickets in a lottery tell us: “you’ve got to be in it, to win it”. And so it is with killing off the greatest economic and environmental fraud of all time. ‘Fighters’ have a remarkable tendency to win. Those that don’t, tend to get steam-rolled, at about the same rate. … Continue reading ‘Fighters’ Win: Another UK Wind Farm Scrapped in Response to Dogged Opposition
Forces Marshall in International Revolt Against the Great Wind Power Fraud
*** Across the Globe - wherever these things things have been threatened upon rural communities - or the threat has been realised - outrage follows. One line spun is that the hostility is an entirely English speaking phenomenon. That piffle was firmly skewered by Lilli-Anne Green (an American researcher and documentary film-maker, who has spoken … Continue reading Forces Marshall in International Revolt Against the Great Wind Power Fraud
Potential Wind Farm Neighbour Finds Idyllic Property is Now ‘Unsaleable’ at Any Price
**** STT hears that hundreds of communities across rural Australia are about to launch the mother-of-all counter-attacks, against the pending threat of having their homes quite literally stolen by wind power outfits. Monstrous outfits - like near-bankrupt Infigen - are just dying to spear another 2,500 of these things into places that have greeted that … Continue reading Potential Wind Farm Neighbour Finds Idyllic Property is Now ‘Unsaleable’ at Any Price
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)
Scots Fight-back as Wind Power Outfit Aims to Thump its ‘Community Message’ Home
**** Remember all those glowing stories about wind power outfits being welcomed into rural communities with open arms? You know, tales about how farmers are dying to have turbines lined up all over their properties? How locals can’t wait to pick up some of the thousands of permanent, high paying jobs on offer? How developers … Continue reading Scots Fight-back as Wind Power Outfit Aims to Thump its ‘Community Message’ Home
Angry Wind Farm Victims Pull the Trigger: Turbines Shot-Up in Montana and Victoria
**** One of the great lines spun by the wind industry, its parasites and spruikers is how country people simply just can’t wait to snuggle up next to a cuddly bunch of Vestas V112s (see our post here). Apparently, life for rural communities just isn’t complete without a fleet of blade-chucking, pyrotechnic, sonic-torture devices. The … Continue reading Angry Wind Farm Victims Pull the Trigger: Turbines Shot-Up in Montana and Victoria
Turbine Hosts’ Lament: Hammered by Wind Power Outfits; Hated by Former Friends, Relatives & Neighbours
**** After years of being shunned by former friends and neighbours for introducing turbines into their communities (or signing up for that to happen in future), many turbine hosts are keen to wind the clock back and make amends. Community division, angry former friends and hostile neighbours are just one aspect of what’s causing actual … Continue reading Turbine Hosts’ Lament: Hammered by Wind Power Outfits; Hated by Former Friends, Relatives & Neighbours