Ponzi Power: US Wind Power Company – Sun Edison – Implodes

**** STT has likened it to the great corporate Ponzi schemes, pointing out, just once or twice, that the wind industry is little more than the most recent and elaborate effort to fleece gullible investors, in a list that dates back to “corporate investment classics”, like the South-Sea Bubble and Dutch tulip mania. In the … Continue reading Ponzi Power: US Wind Power Company – Sun Edison – Implodes

Germany’s Wind & Solar Obsession Killing Industry & Thousands of Real Jobs

In Germany, around €190 billion has already been burnt on renewable subsidies; currently the green energy levy costs €56 million every day. And, the level of subsidy for wind and solar sees Germans paying €20 billion a year for power that gets sold on the power exchange for around €2 billion. Energy poverty is a … Continue reading Germany’s Wind & Solar Obsession Killing Industry & Thousands of Real Jobs

Europe’s Wind Power Suicide Pact Killing 40,000 a Year

Green Europe is killing 40,000 poor a year Breitbart Jame Delingpole 30 March 2016 Europe’s suicidal green energy policies are killing at least 40,000 people a year. That’s just the number estimated to have died in the winter of 2014 because they were unable to afford fuel bills driven artificially high by renewable energy tariffs. But … Continue reading Europe’s Wind Power Suicide Pact Killing 40,000 a Year

Wind Power Costs Crush the Poor

The rush to 'power' modern economies with a Medieval 'technology', abandoned Centuries ago for pretty obvious reasons, has brought with it a banquet of consequences: not least, 'energy poverty'. That term is one that has only come into common parlance with the soaring cost of electricity, caused by throwing $billions at a wholly weather dependent … Continue reading Wind Power Costs Crush the Poor

The Wind Industry’s Malicious & Unjustified Harm to Public Health

Wind power is a public health problem Cape Cod Times Lilli-Ann Green 7 March 2016 Wind turbine projects have previously been rejected in Wellfleet, Eastham, Orleans, Harwich, Dennis, Brewster, Barnstable and Bourne. Health concerns have been a major issue. A Superior Court judge, hearing neighbor’ complaints that wind turbine noise constituted an intolerable “nuisance” that … Continue reading The Wind Industry’s Malicious & Unjustified Harm to Public Health

How Wind Farm Developers Use Taxpayer Subsidies to Steal Homes & Gag Their Victims

**** In Australia, the wind industry is designed to be the beneficiary of $3billion a year in subsidies, paid for by a Federal Tax on all power consumers. Here's some of what it does with that money. Wind funds used to buy neighbours’ silence The Australian Graham Lloyd 29 March 2016 Wind farm developers are … Continue reading How Wind Farm Developers Use Taxpayer Subsidies to Steal Homes & Gag Their Victims

Tasmania’s LRET Inflicted Power Crisis: its 308 MW of Wind Power Capacity Deemed Utterly Worthless

**** Lunatics, like those that people Australia’s Labor Party and the so-called ‘Greens’, continue to delude themselves that, not only is wind power a ‘meaningful’ power generation source, but also that, if we would all simply have faith and ‘believe’, our modern, first world economies could be run entirely upon the whims of the Wind … Continue reading Tasmania’s LRET Inflicted Power Crisis: its 308 MW of Wind Power Capacity Deemed Utterly Worthless

Ireland’s Battle Against Wind Farm Rollout Escalates: Vestas Workers Receive Death Threats

On the Centenary of the 1916 Easter Uprising - its causes and consequences - soon became the hot topic in Ireland: for the Irish, deliberating and celebrating its underdog status (whether at arms, through its history, or trade) is almost a National pastime. Underdogs or not, let there be no doubt about it: the Irish … Continue reading Ireland’s Battle Against Wind Farm Rollout Escalates: Vestas Workers Receive Death Threats

PM Hopes to Salvage LRET & Wind Industry by Reviving Renewables Slush Fund

**** In Australia, the fact that the Large-Scale RET was slashed once (from a 41,000 GWh annual target to 33,000GWh) guarantees that no commercial retailer will enter a long-term Power Purchase Agreement with a wind power outfit; and, accordingly, that no commercial banker will lend money for any new wind farms (see our post here). … Continue reading PM Hopes to Salvage LRET & Wind Industry by Reviving Renewables Slush Fund

AGL’s Macarthur Wind Farm Victims Join the Call for an Immediate Moratorium

In last night’s post, we covered the call by a growing band of Australian Senators for an immediate moratorium on the construction of any more of these things - unless and until they’ve been exonerated, beyond all reasonable doubt, as the cause of a raft of noise related health effects suffered by wind farm neighbours; … Continue reading AGL’s Macarthur Wind Farm Victims Join the Call for an Immediate Moratorium