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

The Economy Crushing Consequences of Massively Subsidised Wind Power

Reaping the carbon policy harvest Catallaxy Files Alan Moran 18 January 2016 For five years, Tata, the Indian firm that owns what used to be British Steel has been warning that energy costs in Britain are squeezing competitiveness. Previous reductions have accelerated in 2015 with a 15 per cent cut in jobs. Successive UK governments … Continue reading The Economy Crushing Consequences of Massively Subsidised Wind Power

The Cost of Wind Power: Killing Jobs and Crushing Families – SA’s Biggest Smelter Under Threat with 750 Jobs at Risk

**** To call what South Australia’s Labor government has ‘gifted’ their constituents an energy ‘policy’, is to flatter it as involving some kind of genuine ‘design’. It’s an economic debacle, pure and simple. The current mess started under former Premier, Mike Rann –  a former spin-doctor, whose relatives lined up at the wind power subsidy … Continue reading The Cost of Wind Power: Killing Jobs and Crushing Families – SA’s Biggest Smelter Under Threat with 750 Jobs at Risk

Wind Industry Pockets Lion’s Share of Subsidies for Commercially Generated Power

 **** STT followers are painfully aware that the wind industry exists - and ONLY exists - to wallow in an endless stream of subsidies filched from power consumers and/or taxpayers: The Wind Industry: Always and Everywhere the Result of Massive & Endless Subsidies (Part 1) The Wind Industry: Always and Everywhere the Result of Massive … Continue reading Wind Industry Pockets Lion’s Share of Subsidies for Commercially Generated Power

Adam Creighton: Labor’s Ludicrous Wind Power Policy to Squander more than $100 Billion

**** In Sunday’s post, we detailed Labor’s descent into wind power madness – with its impossible push for a 50% renewable energy target. One of the immediate responses has come from the press-pack; who have now turned on the great wind power fraud with a vengeance. Journalists with a modicum of common sense have woken … Continue reading Adam Creighton: Labor’s Ludicrous Wind Power Policy to Squander more than $100 Billion

Alan Moran: on the Insane & Pointless Cost of Wind Power

 **** Green energy generates big costs for little gain Alan Moran Australian Financial Review 21 June 2015 Reports of the death of coal are greatly exaggerated. For green power is still very costly and uncompetitive, and likely to remain so despite all the subsidies. In this newspaper last week Richard Denniss opined that there was … Continue reading Alan Moran: on the Insane & Pointless Cost of Wind Power

Texans Move to Slam Wind Power Subsidies

**** The great wind power fraud is in meltdown around the globe. In the US, ‘wind power’ states have cut their state based subsidies to wind power outfits (or are well on the path of doing so); and Republicans are out to prevent the extension of the Federal government’s PTC wind power subsidy: 2015: the … Continue reading Texans Move to Slam Wind Power Subsidies

Who exempts the Poor from the LRET’s $50 Billion Electricity Tax & More Power Price Punishment?

**** The "debate" about the Large-Scale Renewable Energy Target continues to rage in Canberra, where the rent-seekers' game of "save the LRET at all costs" has been driven by the increasingly panicked and apoplectic rantings of Miles George and Kane Thornton. Miles heads up near-bankrupt wind power outfit Infigen (aka Babcock & Brown) and, to … Continue reading Who exempts the Poor from the LRET’s $50 Billion Electricity Tax & More Power Price Punishment?