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Self-Censored: Love Media Refuse to Cover Green Leader’s Backflip on Wind Power

July 25, 2019 by stopthesethings 6 Comments

Inconvenient facts like the wind industry’s rampant Eagle slaughter troubles the narrative and requires the mainstream press to do backflips to maintain a positive spin. Remember, this is an ‘inevitable’ transition to an all wind and sun powered future. So, the slicing and dicing of millions of birds and bats, the destruction of pristine wilderness […]

Filed Under: Animals, Australia, Big wind industry, Big wind politics, birds, Tasmania, Wind Farm Bird Fatalities Tagged With: ABC media bias, Australian Greens renewable energy, Bob Brown Adani coal mine, Bob Brown wind farm Eagle, Bob Brown wind farm Tasmania, community opposition wind farms, Community opposition wind power, Community support for wind power, green hypocrisy, media bias favours wind farms, Robbins Island wind farm, Support for renewable energy

Climate Terrorism: Mainstream Media Waging War on Common Sense & Reason

July 4, 2019 by stopthesethings 7 Comments

Australian voters recently rejected a massive increase in wind and solar and voted in favour of the Queensland coal industry. And yet, plenty in the mainstream media continue to act as if the Green/Labor Alliance had, in fact, won the Federal election in May. Never let the facts get the way of a deluded narrative, […]

Filed Under: Australia, Australia's renewable energy target, Big wind industry, Big wind politics Tagged With: ABC biased renewables, ABC media bias, ABC renewable energy, Anti-coal media bias, Australia's energy crisis, Federal Election 2019, Fran Kelly ABC, Mainstream media renewable energy, media bias favours wind farms

Democracy in Action: Vermonters Vent Fury at Planned Wind Power Project

October 6, 2015 by stopthesethings Leave a Comment

**** Remember all those glowing stories about wind power outfits being welcomed into rural communities with open arms? You know, tales about how farmers are dying to have turbines lined up all over their properties? How locals can’t wait to pick up some of the thousands of permanent, high paying jobs on offer? How developers […]

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Fairfax & the ABC: the Wind Industry’s Useful Idiots; or How “Mantras” Killed Journalism

June 23, 2015 by stopthesethings 14 Comments

**** Ron and Chris Jelbart, and their son, Peter have come to prominence on these pages once or twice; for all the wrong reasons. Ron and Peter have given evidence about the debilitating impacts of incessant turbine generated low-frequency noise and infrasound on their ability to sleep and function as a farmer and heavy-vehicle driver: […]

Filed Under: Australia, Big wind industry, Big wind politics, Health Tagged With: ABC biased renewables, ABC wind farms, AGL Macarthur wind farm, Annabel Crabb wind farms, Fairfax wind farms, Karl Kruszelnicki wind farms, low frequency wind turbine noise, media bias favours wind farms, media wind farms, Peter Jelbart, wind farms kill birds, wind industry propaganda

ABC’s Pro-Wind Industry Bias Exposed as a National Scandal

August 19, 2014 by stopthesethings 10 Comments

**** Ever had the feeling that certain quarters of the media give the wind industry an easy run? Australia’s National broad-sheet, The Australian stands as an exception; publishing plenty of pieces that, quite rightly, highlight the obscene cost and spurious “benefits” of the mandatory Renewable Energy Target and its product: the wind industry (for just […]

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