Among the wind cult, it’s apparently the ‘aesthetics’ of these things that titillate the senses and get their juices flowing: just knowing that they’re out there somewhere (in someone else’s backyard, not their own) gently caressing the breezes, is more than enough for starry-eyed wind worshippers. Ignore the hundreds of $billions squandered on subsidies for … Continue reading Brits Tear Down Lake District Wind Turbines to Restore Pristine Views: Locals Delighted
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Ontario’s Wind Power Nightmare: More like a Drug-Fuelled Horror Movie
Ontario gothic The Times Editorial 6 October 2017 Mary Shelley is said to have conceived the story of Frankenstein, a manmade monster let loose upon the countryside, while under the influence of opium in the cold summer of 1816. The gothic horror story, it turns out, was the work of a dark imagination fuelled by … Continue reading Ontario’s Wind Power Nightmare: More like a Drug-Fuelled Horror Movie
Thinking About Welcoming Wind Turbines in your Community? Well, Think Again – An Avoidable Nightmare Awaits
Communities that were gullible and naïve enough to welcome wind turbines inevitably end up regretting being played for dupes. And it’s a regret that lasts a lifetime. Promises of money for jam; being led to believe that everyone involved is about to save the planet from imminent incineration; and being told these things are quieter … Continue reading Thinking About Welcoming Wind Turbines in your Community? Well, Think Again – An Avoidable Nightmare Awaits
If You’re Fighting the Wind Industry: Keep Fighting, Because Fighters Win
The wind industry is always and everywhere about subsidies. The punitive cost of those subsidies are starting to appear in retail power bills, infuriating householders and driving businesses to the wall. Panicked politicians, who enabled the greatest economic and environmental fraud of all time, are reacting. Their inevitable response is to cut the subsidies that … Continue reading If You’re Fighting the Wind Industry: Keep Fighting, Because Fighters Win
What the Wind Industry Doesn’t Want Anyone to Know
In this repost, STT welcomes Britain's Peak Protection Force - and its blog, MindWind to our International Network. This insightful piece tackles the type of awkward questions that the wind industry would rather you never asked. And, sure as hell, will never openly answer. Awkward Questions Answered MindWind Peak Protection Force 24 September 2017 This … Continue reading What the Wind Industry Doesn’t Want Anyone to Know
Why Wind Power is the Greatest Economic & Environmental Fraud in History
When called upon the think of certainties, gravity springs to mind (at least on earth). Although, for the wind industry it does tend to deliver harsh results - see above, yet another fatal collapse, this time in Lincoln, Nebraska. Another certainty, is that once people tackle the facts, they turn against wind power with a … Continue reading Why Wind Power is the Greatest Economic & Environmental Fraud in History
Victorian Police Perplexed: Furious Neighbours Continue to Shoot-Up Noisy Wind Turbines
The photo above was cooked up a couple of years ago by wind industry stooge, Andrew Bray. The stories below, though, are real enough. ‘Could result in death’: shots fired at Waubra wind turbines The Courier Derrick Krusche 27 Sep 2017 Police suspect a long-arm gun such as a rifle was used to shoot turbines … Continue reading Victorian Police Perplexed: Furious Neighbours Continue to Shoot-Up Noisy Wind Turbines
Wind Turbines Present Mortal Threat to Flyers: Project Canned as Unacceptable Threat to Human Life
All power generation comes with risk. However, those risks are traded off against the immeasurable societal benefits provided by reliable and affordable electricity. Where the power source is wholly weather dependent – and the industry that profits from it wholly dependent upon massive and endless subsidies and, therefore, wholly unsustainable – there is nothing … Continue reading Wind Turbines Present Mortal Threat to Flyers: Project Canned as Unacceptable Threat to Human Life
Government Mandated Theft: The Great Scottish Wind Power Racket Unwrapped
Dr John Constable is Director of the Renewable Energy Foundation. Matt Ridley is a journalist and author. In this well-crafted piece they pair up to unwrap the greatest State sponsored fraud in history; this time as it's playing out in Scotland. The Scottish wind-power racket CAPX John Constable and Matt Ridley 10 August 2017 Imagine … Continue reading Government Mandated Theft: The Great Scottish Wind Power Racket Unwrapped
Wind Industry’s Dirty Little Secret: Turbines to Generate 40 Million Tonnes of Toxic Waste
Environmentalists of the kind lovingly called ‘tree huggers’ (rather than wind turbine worshippers) are finally cottoning on to the fact that the wind industry is anything but the ‘clean, green’ energy source its proponents claim it to be. In this piece, Emily Wade makes her indignation palpable; it’s almost as if she’s been played for … Continue reading Wind Industry’s Dirty Little Secret: Turbines to Generate 40 Million Tonnes of Toxic Waste
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