STT followers might be tiring of our focus on South Australia. However, the disaster - both economic and social - unfolding in SA should be taken as a warning to any policy maker foolish enough to believe that an economy can be powered using sunshine and breezes. Here’s another take on the debacle from The … Continue reading South Australia’s Wind Power Debacle Leaves Labor Government Begging for Baseload Power
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South Australia’s Energy Fiasco: Wind Power Dropout Leaves BHP with Whopping $2.5 Million Power Bill
Continuing our focus on Australia’s “wind power capital”, South Australia and its self-inflicted energy disaster, here is another story outlining the debacle, this time from The Advertiser. BHP’s SA power bill hit $2.5m - on a single day The Advertiser Luke Griffiths 16 July 2016 THE power bill of the state’s largest private employer recently … Continue reading South Australia’s Energy Fiasco: Wind Power Dropout Leaves BHP with Whopping $2.5 Million Power Bill
Panic Hits South Australia: Wind Power Debacle Sends Power Prices Through the Roof
*** South Australia’s witless Labor government is in a state of full blown panic. Since the closure of Alinta’s Northern and Playford power stations at Port Augusta, peaking power operators (using highly inefficient Open Cycle Gas Turbines or even diesel generators) have been gouging SA’s crippled power market, every time wind power output collapses. The … Continue reading Panic Hits South Australia: Wind Power Debacle Sends Power Prices Through the Roof
South Australia’s Wind Power Nightmare Crushing its Biggest Employers
For over 3½ years, STT has been warning about the pending social and economic disaster in Australia’s so-called “wind power capital”, South Australia. A few weeks back we covered yet another crippling 12% hike in retail power prices, to be suffered by cash-strapped South Australian households; those who, of course, aren’t among the tens of … Continue reading South Australia’s Wind Power Nightmare Crushing its Biggest Employers
Australia Votes: STT Takes a Little Break
In a thousand places, from Albany to Yerranderie, from the Bungle Bungles to Zeehan, around 16 million Australians have just ticked a few boxes that will determine which team gets to control its Federal Parliament for a while. As to the future of the wind industry, the result matters little: without bi-partisan support, the LRET … Continue reading Australia Votes: STT Takes a Little Break
Wind Farm Noise Victims Sue Developer & Noise Consultant for $Millions
Litigation is where the rubber hits the road: myths get replaced with facts; evidence overtakes spin and propaganda. Court rooms (and where they determine the facts, juries) strike fear into the (ordinarily icy) hearts of those that stand behind or run with wind power outfits. Wherever in the world civil actions have been pursued in … Continue reading Wind Farm Noise Victims Sue Developer & Noise Consultant for $Millions
What’s Wrong with Wind Power? Everything is Wrong with Wind Power
Much to the horror of the wind industry, its parasites and spruikers - and the dismay of the clowns that pretend to govern us - slowly, but surely, the facts are getting out: these things don't work; on any level. Piecing it together, in fine and erudite style, this time it's Sherri Lange from the North … Continue reading What’s Wrong with Wind Power? Everything is Wrong with Wind Power
Why Wind Turbine Noise is Just So Incredibly Annoying to Wind Farm Victims
'Annoyance' is a term much used, and frequently abused, in relation to the acoustic torture caused by incessant turbine generated low-frequency noise and infrasound. Those that abuse the term, including a former tobacco advertising guru, claim that the known and obvious effects of being immersed in thumping waves of pulsating air pressure (ie noise and vibration), … Continue reading Why Wind Turbine Noise is Just So Incredibly Annoying to Wind Farm Victims
‘Green’ Epiphany: Environmentalists Join Fight Against the Great Wind Power Fraud
The death of the wind industry didn’t come about because BIG Coal felt ‘threatened‘ and set out in some kind of John Grisham conspiracy to wreck it by fair means or foul. No. What kills it is the fact that a growing band of ‘eco-travellers’ – of the kind who once placed their faith in … Continue reading ‘Green’ Epiphany: Environmentalists Join Fight Against the Great Wind Power Fraud
Wind Power: The Greatest Swindle Ever Known
Australia is in election mode, with the battle for Federal political supremacy being won and lost on television and on the airwaves. The one broadcaster a political hopeful doesn't want off-side is 2GB's Alan Jones. AJ's followers number in the millions across 77 stations across the Country. Last week, Alan picked up on the cost … Continue reading Wind Power: The Greatest Swindle Ever Known
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