Delingpole: Ding Dong DECCs is Dead – UK’s Economy Saving Renewables Retreat

*** Britain’s New Prime Minister Drives A Stake Through The Heart Of The Green Vampire Breitbart James Delingpole 14 July 2016 Official: Britain no longer has“the greenest government ever.” Incoming Prime Minister Theresa May has driven a stake through the heart of her predecessor David Cameron’s fluffy, faux-Conservative project by scrapping the Department of Energy […]

Brits Slash Subsidies to Wind Power as South Australia’s ‘Green Dream’ Turns Nightmare

*** STT followers might be wondering at our present obsession with South Australia’s wind powered, energy calamity.  However, we haven’t forgotten about the rest of the world.  Our focus, we think, is justified; as South Australia stands as the perfect and inevitable example of what happens when you try to run an economy on sunshine […]

Doomed & Desperate: UK Wind Industry Attempts to Engineer Backdoor Subsidies

David Cameron’s Conservatives strode to outright power on the back of a ‘crystal clear’ manifesto to cut subsidies to wind power and to give locals the right to veto wind farm projects at the planning stage. But, in a ‘never-say-die’ last ditch attempt to obtain ‘backdoor’ access to the perpetual subsidies that are the only […]

Brits Crush Plans for Huge Offshore Wind Power Disaster

Navitus Bay wind farm refused permission by government BBC News 11 September 2015 A proposed wind farm off the south coast of England has been refused consent by the government. Developers behind the Navitus Bay project – for up to 121 turbines off Dorset, Hampshire and the Isle of Wight – say it would have […]

UK’s Wind Industry in Meltdown: Cameron to Flush-Out DECC’s Detritus

**** The wind industry’s current form reminds STT of Simon Pegg’s character in ‘How to Lose Friends and Alienate People‘, Sidney Young – blunt, gormless, and ready to pull out all stops to ensure every one who counts hates him. Now that they’ve lost the grip on the game in countries where they thought they […]

UK Elections: Britain’s Deliverance from its Wind Power Disaster

**** Britain’s political betters have set it up for one enormous gamble.  Britain is wagering its entire economic future on its – out of control – wind power debacle. Back in January last year, The Economist reported on the INSANE cost of delivering offshore wind power – where generators are guaranteed obscene returns – being […]

Wind Power Goes AWOL Right When Freezing Brits Need It Most

**** The hackneyed myth that wind power “powers” millions of homes with wonderful “free” wind energy is taking a beating around the globe (see our post here). The idea that a wholly weather dependent power generation source can ever be – as is touted endlessly by the wind industry and its parasites – an “alternative” […]

Exposure of UK’s Wind Power’s Crippling Costs sees Britain’s “Greenblob” Turn to Doublethink & Doublespeak

**** Britain’s energy policy is a debacle. It’s been driven by Marxist zealots of the hard-‘green’-left – branded the “Greenblob” by the reasonable and honest folks in politics, like Owen Paterson (see our post here). The Greenblob have set Britain up for an inevitable economic disaster, by wedding its increasingly bleak future to insanely expensive, […]

UK Plan to Ban Noisy Wind Farms

Noisy wind farms face ban as ministers launch review into ‘annoying’ sound levels The Telegraph Emily Godsen 30 November 2014 Exclusive: Energy department commissions review into disturbance from turbine noise in order to decide when annoyance becomes unacceptable  Noisy wind farms that disturb local communities could be banned, after ministers launched an unprecedented review into […]

When “MORE” is Never “ENOUGH”: British Wind Power Outfits Demand MORE Subsidies

Offshore wind farms may be scrapped due to budget cap, ScottishPower warns The Telegraph Emily Godsen 30 October 2014 Keith Anderson says company’s East Anglia project is being scaled back and claims Government budget limits mean wind farms that do get built will be unnecessarily expensive Several proposed offshore wind farms may be scrapped in […]