The offshore wind industry has as much chance of recovering as the dodo and the woolly mammoth. Donald Trump’s obliteration of America’s offshore wind industry is gathering pace. And with dozens of projects worth $billions in capital expenditure being quietly scrapped, offshore wind construction outfits and turbine manufacturers face financial annihilation. Which brings us to … Continue reading Stop These Things’ Weekly Round Up: 12 October 2025
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Stop These Things’ Weekly Round Up: 21 September 2025
Desperation is a stinky cologne - it’s the stench the pervades America’s offshore wind industry these days - thanks to the game being played out by the Trump administration. The 47th President is no fan, to be sure - and there are plenty on his team who share his loathing for the greatest economic and … Continue reading Stop These Things’ Weekly Round Up: 21 September 2025
Stop These Things’ Weekly Round Up: 31 August 2025
Donald Trump will never be accused of worshipping wind power. The US President is a Stop These Things pinup boy for putting our tagline into brutal effect. And among his political compatriots, he is far from alone. Which brings us to this week’s roundup. In the X video post below, Robert F Kennedy Jr hooks … Continue reading Stop These Things’ Weekly Round Up: 31 August 2025
Stop These Things’ Weekly Round Up: 20 July 2025
Where occasionally generating power using breezes onshore is ludicrously costly, doing so offshore is positively bonkers. The exorbitant and exponentially rising costs associated with planting these things in marine environments has seen dozens upon dozens of projects scotched in the US, UK, Europe and now Australia. Which brings us to this week’s roundup. The team … Continue reading Stop These Things’ Weekly Round Up: 20 July 2025
Stop These Things’ Weekly Round Up: 6 April 2025
With Donald Trump’s tariff-led geopolitical strategy in train, watch countries rapidly ditch their obsession with chaotically intermittent wind and solar. Cheap and reliable energy is, always and everywhere, the key to competing in the global marketplace. That’s precisely why China dominates in manufacturing all of the stuff that the West consumes and uses. And within … Continue reading Stop These Things’ Weekly Round Up: 6 April 2025
Stop These Things’ Weekly Round Up: 25 February 2025
Wind and solar sit at the heart of the net-zero CO2 emissions scam which, thanks to Donald J Trump, is in its terminal phase. Indeed, the climate cult and its beneficiaries are in more trouble the Ned Kelly and his bushranger brothers at Glenrowan. Kicking off this week’s roundup, Robert Bryce provides a delightful summary … Continue reading Stop These Things’ Weekly Round Up: 25 February 2025
Stop These Things’ Weekly Round Up: 2 February 2025
Donald Trump’s efforts to destroy the wind industry continue apace. The President has made no secret of his disdain for these things, and the subsidies that rent seekers have gouged from power consumers and taxpayers over the last generation. The video above paints a picture of a man ready to Stop These Things, as to … Continue reading Stop These Things’ Weekly Round Up: 2 February 2025
Stop These Things’ Weekly Round Up: 26 January 2025
As Donald J Trump tells the world that America’s “not gonna do the wind thing” anymore, wind industry rent seekers are in a state of suicidal panic. As promised, Trump has signed executive orders that will pull offshore wind power projects to a grinding halt, as well as onshore projects that were slated for Federal … Continue reading Stop These Things’ Weekly Round Up: 26 January 2025
Stop These Things’ Weekly Round Up: 24 November 2024
This week’s roundup includes articles on the obscene and staggering cost of subsidies to wind power outfits born by every taxpayer and power consumer; how power prices are rocketing in every US state that’s backed chaotically intermittent wind and solar; how wind power never makes sense and taking it offshore is positively insane; how Donald Trump’s … Continue reading Stop These Things’ Weekly Round Up: 24 November 2024
Stop These Things Weekly Roundup: 10 November 2024
This week’s roundup includes articles detailing Donald Trump’s overwhelming victory and what the political shift means for the Climate Industrial Complex; how efforts by America’s Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) to gaslight Atlantic coastal communities about the devastating environmental harm caused by offshore wind power; how so-called ‘green’ energy drives the demand for coal, … Continue reading Stop These Things Weekly Roundup: 10 November 2024