Nothing generates more hatred and bitter community division than a wind farm. And when what's proposed is 800 of these things: 290 tonne, 165m tall, bat-chomping, bird slicing, blade-chucking, pyrotechnic, sonic-torture devices - speared all over the bucolic Welsh and Shropshire countryside it's little wonder that locals have erupted in fury - a taste of which … Continue reading Wales Erupts in Wild Protests Against Outrageous 800 Turbine Wind Farm
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The Best Defence Against the Wind Industry is the Truth
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 are … Continue reading The Best Defence Against the Wind Industry is the Truth
‘Mongrels’: AGL Treats its Wind Farm Neighbours with Ridicule & Contempt
*** 'Wicked' and 'wanton' doesn't quite capture the manner in which wind power outfit, AGL behaves towards its victims. Spearing hundreds of these things into the heart of (once) peaceful and prosperous rural communities would be bad enough, but treating those that suffer the consequences - such as the chronic sleep deprivation caused by incessant … Continue reading ‘Mongrels’: AGL Treats its Wind Farm Neighbours with Ridicule & Contempt
Governor’s Wind Farm Push Brings Community Backlash in Upstate New York
**** The wind industry rides roughshod over rural communities wherever it goes, and Upstate New York is no exception. New York's Governor, Andrew Cuomo is another of the wind industry's willing 'enablers' who seems to believe that arrogance and malice are a political virtue. Crash or crash through is a style long associated with those … Continue reading Governor’s Wind Farm Push Brings Community Backlash in Upstate New York
Split Asunder: Wind Farms Cause Hatred & Permanent Community Division
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. Bitter community division, angry former friends and hostile neighbours are just one aspect of what has caused … Continue reading Split Asunder: Wind Farms Cause Hatred & Permanent Community Division
If You’re Going through Wind Farm Hell, Then Keep Going
**** What impresses STT most is the tenacity and perseverance of community defenders, all over the Globe. Pro-farming (REAL farming, that is), pro-community and pro-real power groups are better informed and organised, and more vocal and hostile, than ever before. Hard-working, decent, rural people throughout the world are fighting back – to obtain sensible energy … Continue reading If You’re Going through Wind Farm Hell, Then Keep Going
Community Defenders Bomb Wind Farm in the Philippines
**** After years of being lied to, bullied, berated and treated like fools (at best) and “road-kill” (at worst), for most, the ‘gloss’ comprising wind industry PR efforts to ‘win hearts and minds’ has well and truly worn off. These days, the communities aren’t so gullible; they aren’t so welcoming; and they aren’t willing to … Continue reading Community Defenders Bomb Wind Farm in the Philippines
‘Deer Wind Developer, We Hate You, With a Burning Passion. Yours, the Deerhunter’ ..
**** Linguistic pedants might wish to take issue with the apparent misspelling, appearing in the title above. However, the choice of “deer” rather than “dear” was a deliberate little wordplay on the subject matter of today’s post. STT has reported on a variety of steps taken by community defenders around the globe: Angry Wind Farm … Continue reading ‘Deer Wind Developer, We Hate You, With a Burning Passion. Yours, the Deerhunter’ ..
Rye Park Rumble: 91% of Locals Hostile to Trustpower’s Planned Wind Farm Disaster
A week or so back we covered the antics of another foreign owned wind power outfit struggling to come to grips with the fact that Australian rural communities have had - as they say - ‘a gutful’ of the wind industry’s lies, treachery and deceit. And they’ve especially had enough of the bully-boy, stand-over tactics … Continue reading Rye Park Rumble: 91% of Locals Hostile to Trustpower’s Planned Wind Farm Disaster
Big ‘Green’ Wrecking Machines: The Wind Industry’s Woeful ‘Legacy’ – So Far ..
*** America’s big ‘green’ wrecking machines cfact.org Mary Kay Barton 19 August 2015 Politically connected industrial wind zealots are destroying rural America and electricity markets “If you have no conscience, no morals, no aesthetic sensibility, no understanding of free markets; if you hate wildlife, people and the natural landscape; if you loathe private property… then … Continue reading Big ‘Green’ Wrecking Machines: The Wind Industry’s Woeful ‘Legacy’ – So Far ..
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