New Yorkers Count the Staggering Cost of Cuomo’s Wind Power Obsession

STT has fought the battle against the great wind power fraud on a number of fronts over the years: the totally unnecessary harm caused to wind farm neighbours by incessant, turbine generated low-frequency noise and infrasound; the pointless slaughter of millions of birds and bats; the environmental harm caused by the growing mountains and lakes … Continue reading New Yorkers Count the Staggering Cost of Cuomo’s Wind Power Obsession

America Set to Cut Subsidies to Wind Power & Prevent Grid Chaos

Donald Trump is not the wind industry's biggest fan. And now that the damage done to once reliable and affordable power supplies by the intermittent and chaotic delivery of wind power is plain for all to see (look no further than South Australia), the US is out to avoid the inevitable. Starting with an investigation … Continue reading America Set to Cut Subsidies to Wind Power & Prevent Grid Chaos

South Australia’s Ridiculous Wind Power Push Driving Business to Bankruptcy: Power Prices Triple (Again)

*** In Australia’s so-called wind power capital, South Australia, its hapless Labor government is crowing about having reached its ludicrous 50% renewable energy target. However, the cost of that vanity project is crippling what remains of South Australia’s productive enterprise. In our recent post - Economic Carnage: SA’s Rocketing Power Prices Crippling Miners, Bakers & … Continue reading South Australia’s Ridiculous Wind Power Push Driving Business to Bankruptcy: Power Prices Triple (Again)

Subsidised Suicide: Wind Power Delivers Nothing But Rocketing Power Prices & Blackouts

*** In this pair of pearlers, James Delingpole spans the globe: firstly detailing the growing and staggering cost of subsidised wind power in Britain; and then turning his attention Downunder to the disaster that is Australia's wind power capital, South Australia. Post-Brexit Britain Wants To Escape Its EU Renewables Targets. About Time Too Breitbart James … Continue reading Subsidised Suicide: Wind Power Delivers Nothing But Rocketing Power Prices & Blackouts

Subsidised Wind & Solar Set to Quadruple German Power Prices

In Europe wind powered Denmark and Germany are vying for top spot on the insane power price ladder. The world over, businesses and households are fast waking up to the fact that the wind industry line about wind power being 'free' and getting cheaper all the time is among the greatest lies ever told. Sure, … Continue reading Subsidised Wind & Solar Set to Quadruple German Power Prices

Australia’s Power Grid Groans: Wind Power Obsession Threatens Lives & Livelihoods

Vain and dishonest, former Labor PM (and Muppet-in-Chief), Kevin Rudd has a lot to answer for. When his predecessor, Liberal PM, John Howard brought in a renewable energy target in 2001, it was set at a tokenistic 2%: clearly a sop to the wind cult, but for Australian businesses and families, a 'nothing to see … Continue reading Australia’s Power Grid Groans: Wind Power Obsession Threatens Lives & Livelihoods

‘System Black’: South Australia’s Wind Power Experiment a Costly, Abject Failure

*** No other two word combination strikes more fear into the hearts of the wind industry and its political backers than 'South Australia'. Rocketing power prices, routine load shedding and mass blackouts are the inevitable results of South Australia's wind power experiment. Tom Quirk trained as a nuclear physicist at the University of Melbourne. He … Continue reading ‘System Black’: South Australia’s Wind Power Experiment a Costly, Abject Failure

SA’s Deluded Labor Government Determined to Kill Jobs with 50% Renewable Energy Target

*** In a week when Coca-Cola Amatil announced that it would close its Adelaide bottling plant with the loss of 200 jobs, one might have reasonably expected South Australia's hapless Labor government to have taken the opportunity to retreat from its disastrous energy policy. To the contrary, Jay Weatherill & Co sought to double down … Continue reading SA’s Deluded Labor Government Determined to Kill Jobs with 50% Renewable Energy Target

Wind Power Subsidies Become Turnbull’s Worst Political Nightmare: Australia’s RET Must Go Now

*** At the risk of sounding like a broken record - or for the younger generation a stuttering CD or a corrupted MP3 file - STT has said it before and will keep saying it: any policy which is unsustainable will fail, crushed by its own imponderable weight or ignominiously scrapped by those who created … Continue reading Wind Power Subsidies Become Turnbull’s Worst Political Nightmare: Australia’s RET Must Go Now

Trudeau’s Politics of Pain: Canadians Suffer Rocketing Power Prices Due to Subsidised Wind Power

*** A couple of weeks ago, former Australian PM, Tony Abbott went to press, slamming Australia's business and family killing Renewable Energy Target and calling for an end to subsidised wind power. Abbott quite properly observed that: "The first rule of government should be to do no harm. Right now, the government must avoid all … Continue reading Trudeau’s Politics of Pain: Canadians Suffer Rocketing Power Prices Due to Subsidised Wind Power