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
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Wind Industry Belting its ‘Message’ Home: Trustpower’s Thugs Assault 79-Year-Old Pensioner & Disabled Farmer
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 Wind Industry Belting its ‘Message’ Home: Trustpower’s Thugs Assault 79-Year-Old Pensioner & Disabled Farmer
Banks Baulk at Lending to Wind Power Outfits as Brits Slash Subsidies & Communities Fight Back
**** Our British counter-parts are on a roll. Since David Cameron’s thumping election win, wind power outfits in the UK have been copping a belting on all fronts. And the same is true across the ditch in the Emerald Isle. Furious communities from Armagh to Kerry; and John O'Groats to Cornwall are gathering strength and … Continue reading Banks Baulk at Lending to Wind Power Outfits as Brits Slash Subsidies & Communities Fight Back
‘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
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 ..
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)
Wind Turbines: The Evil Seed
They came in like a soft silent breeze Hushing the naïve Speaking with forked tongues Proclaiming black is green Maiming thinkers with corrupt words Casting a thick cloud of concern Residing with hidden evils Leaving a trail of trash Forever scarred The stench you see Smells of decay What appears above and below is a … Continue reading Wind Turbines: The Evil Seed
Subsidies Scrapped: Scots Rejoice at Wind Industry’s Demise – Time for a Wee Highland Fling
**** The Scots are a tenacious bunch; and their history is a pungent mix of romance and tragedy. Legendary characters like William Wallace - who - single-handed - raised a fearsome Highland revolt - muscled up against the English invaders, time and time again. Wallace, with Andrew Moray gave a well-trained and drilled English army … Continue reading Subsidies Scrapped: Scots Rejoice at Wind Industry’s Demise – Time for a Wee Highland Fling
Germany’s Wind Power ‘Dream’ Becomes a Living Nightmare
**** The wind industry, its parasites and spruikers, around the globe, hail Germany as THE wind power ‘Super Model’. Trouble is, in Germany - as elsewhere - the ‘gloss’ has well-and-truly worn off - and the 'Model' is looking more than just a little worse for wear. The Germans went into wind power harder and … Continue reading Germany’s Wind Power ‘Dream’ Becomes a Living Nightmare
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