First Strike: Communities Threatened by Wind Farms Gathering Own Noise Data to Later Sue Turbine Hosts & Developers in Nuisance

Over the last few weeks there has been an uptick in chatter about long dormant wind farm projects being resurrected, which has more to do with anxious developers hoping to offload their projects than any kind of renewed confidence in Australia’s precarious renewable energy policies. In the main, this rush of panicked activity is about […]

Needless Human Suffering the Price of Wind Industry Corruption

*** For far too many acoustic engineers ethics runs a poor second to pocketing fat piles of easy cash from the wind industry for knocking out noise reports that (always) show ‘compliance’ with the noise conditions of planning consents – even if that requires fabricating data – as occurred at the Waubra and Cape Bridgewater […]

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 […]

Fraud in Falmouth MA – Town Relied on Acoustic Consultants’ Faked Vestas Wind Turbine Noise Report

There aren’t many certainties in life, save death and taxes. But STT is happy to add – without reservation – to that short-list, another: that you’ll never find the words ‘integrity’ and ‘wind industry’ coupling up in the same sentence. Lies, fraud and corruption are the norm; and that extends to the industry’s pet acoustic […]

Energy Minister, Josh Frydenberg Cops a Well-Earned Serve from Alan Jones & Victoria’s Wind Farm Victims

**** In late 2015, any one of our political betters caught paying lip-service to the wind industry can be fairly branded “pig ignorant”; or, if not just willfully blind to the greatest economic and environmental fraud of all time, then a “piggy with his trotters firmly planted in the subsidy trough”. The wind industry is […]

Wind Turbine Infrasound: What You Can’t Hear Can Really Harm You

Wind turbine noise, what you can’t hear can harm you Vermontbiz Brian Dubie 25 September 2015 What do you think of when you think of an industrial wind project? Wind developers want you to think of free, green electricity. People who live near industrial wind turbines think of noise. Let’s see why. An Industrial Wind […]

Wind Industry Fraud & Corruption Exposed: Pacific Hydro & Acciona Defrauding the Commonwealth

**** Following up on Senator John Madigan’s brilliant exposé of criminal fraud and corruption in Australia’s wind industry, which we covered in this post: Pacific Hydro & Acciona’s Acoustic ‘Consultant’ Fakes ‘Compliance’ Reports for Non-Compliant Wind Farms Alan Jones went to town on his 2GB Breakfast Show that – some 2 million listeners tune in […]

Labor’s Bill Shorten Publicly Ridicules Joanne Kermond – a Victim of Pacific Hydro’s Non-Compliant Cape Bridgewater Wind Farm

**** Australia’s Labor Party – once, justifiably, called the worker’s party – has long since ceased being a voice for anything other than the corrupt bosses of the unions that fund it – via the $billions siphoned through Union Super Funds, like IFM Investors. IFM Investors is the outfit that used to own Pacific Hydro, […]

Pacific Hydro & Acciona’s Acoustic ‘Consultant’ Fakes ‘Compliance’ Reports for Non-Compliant Wind Farms

**** Victorian Senator – and STT Champion – John Madigan delivered the speech-of-a-lifetime in the Federal Senate this week, recorded in the video and Hansard (transcript) below. What John reveals is nothing short of criminal, as we detail later in the post. **** **** SENATE Hansard TUESDAY, 15 SEPTEMBER 2015 Senator MADIGAN: Firstly, I seek […]

Paul’s Epistle to the Australian Electricity Consumer

By popular demand – here’s Paul’s Epistle to Australian power punters. In our last post, Paul Miskelly gave Ian Macfarlane an almighty serve over his apparent sympathy for wind weasels. We’ve been overwhelmed by the number of hits on – and with the responses to – Paul’s extremely well-crafted challenge to the new Industry Minister. […]