Australia’s National Health and Medical Research Council long ago disqualified itself as a body fit, willing, or even able to investigate and report on the known and obvious consequences to human health and well-being caused by incessant turbine generated low-frequency noise and infrasound. From the get go, it’s been infiltrated by wind industry consultants, such … Continue reading Australian Senators Demand Wind Farm Moratorium: NHMRC (finally) Decides to Conduct Actual Health Research
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The Wind Might be ‘Free’, but Utterly Pointless Wind Power Costs a King’s Ransom
**** In their sillier moments, the wind industry, its parasites and spruikers pitch the line that their pointless product is not only getting cheaper all the time, but go so far as to claim that wind power is already cheaper than gas and coal-fired power. Risible PR antics aside, the wind industry has always had … Continue reading The Wind Might be ‘Free’, but Utterly Pointless Wind Power Costs a King’s Ransom
Germans Face Wind Powered Economic Nightmare: €Billions Squandered on Subsidies, as CO2 Emissions Rise
**** The Germans went into wind power harder and faster than anyone else – and the cost of doing so is catching up with a vengeance. The subsidies have been colossal and the impacts on the electricity market chaotic. Some 800,000 German homes have been disconnected from the grid – victims of what is euphemistically … Continue reading Germans Face Wind Powered Economic Nightmare: €Billions Squandered on Subsidies, as CO2 Emissions Rise
German Doctors Spell Out the Serious Harm Caused by Wind Turbine Infrasound
**** The wind industry has known about, attempted to cover up and lied about the adverse health effects caused by incessant turbine generated low-frequency noise and infrasound for over 30 years; and knowing full-well that the dB(A) weighting is irrelevant to measuring the low-frequency noise spectrum, wrote their own ‘rules’ that even make the risible … Continue reading German Doctors Spell Out the Serious Harm Caused by Wind Turbine Infrasound
Germany: 60-Tonne Wind Turbine Rotor Crashes To Earth
**** 60-Tonne Wind Turbine Rotor Crashes To Earth NoTricksZone Pierre Gosselin 1 March 2016 The online SVZ here reported yesterday on a wind-turbine construction accident occurring in Southern Germany. Workers of the Hamburg-based Nordex company were operating a large hoisting crane by remote control as it lifted the 60-tonne wind turbine rotor assembly for mounting … Continue reading Germany: 60-Tonne Wind Turbine Rotor Crashes To Earth
Irish High Court Slams Cork Wind Farm
High Court overturns permission for Cork wind farm The Irish Times Mary Carolan 25 February 2016 Judge says process used by An Bord Pleanála did not comply with Irish law The High Court has overturned a grant of planning permission for a wind farm near Inchigeelagh, Co Cork. Mr Justice Bernard Barton ruled the permission … Continue reading Irish High Court Slams Cork Wind Farm
Typically Bogus ‘Green’ Jobs Promise sees Texan Wind Power Outfit Sued for $2.7M
**** As the wind industry hoodwinked its way around the globe, one of the standard promises (well, more like bait for the more gullible fish in the pond), used to sucker in politicians was that, if (and only if) those in power were ready to sign over their constituents’ hard-won property rights, as well as … Continue reading Typically Bogus ‘Green’ Jobs Promise sees Texan Wind Power Outfit Sued for $2.7M
Australia’s Wind Industry Under Siege: LRET Subsidy Set to be Slashed (Again)
**** Subsidy won't generate target Australian Financial Review Ben Potter 10 March 2016 Less than a 10th of the wind and solar generation capacity required by the renewable energy target this decade is under construction, which could force the Turnbull government to renegotiate the controversial scheme with the opposition. Significant shortfalls under the cross-subsidy scheme … Continue reading Australia’s Wind Industry Under Siege: LRET Subsidy Set to be Slashed (Again)
Community Defenders Bomb Wind Farm in the Philippines
**** After years of being lied to, bullied, berated and treated like fools (at best) and “road-kill” (at worst), for most, the ‘gloss’ comprising wind industry PR efforts to ‘win hearts and minds’ has well and truly worn off. These days, the communities aren’t so gullible; they aren’t so welcoming; and they aren’t willing to … Continue reading Community Defenders Bomb Wind Farm in the Philippines
Wind Turbine Rollout Turns Californian Desert from Dream to Nightmare
**** Stop ruining our priceless desert in the name of the big 'E' The Bakersfield Californian Girard Fisher 1 March 2016 Ever been to Nipton? It’s a whistle stop on the northern edge of the Mojave National Preserve. It’s as far west of the California state line as nearby Primm, Nev., is east. In other … Continue reading Wind Turbine Rollout Turns Californian Desert from Dream to Nightmare