In 2018, it’s easier to find a deluded wind turbine hugger, than an old-fashioned tree hugger. Michael Shellenberger is regarded as one of America’s leading environmental advocates, but his avowed hatred of subsidised, intermittent and unreliable wind and solar puts him at odds with his contemporaries. To the extent that carbon dioxide gas concerns him, … Continue reading ‘Green’ Vandalism: The Mounting Toll of Wind Industry’s Wave of Ecological Destruction
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Wind Industry Uses Fake Numbers to Cover Up Mass Bird & Bat Slaughter
The wind industry will never be accused of transparency or honesty. Every new wind power project is going to power 100,000 homes and suck millions of tons of CO2 gas from the atmosphere [note to Ed, please check what plants will do with less CO2?] and create hundreds of new jobs. Notwithstanding that the occupants … Continue reading Wind Industry Uses Fake Numbers to Cover Up Mass Bird & Bat Slaughter
Australia’s Renewable Policies an Economic Suicide Pact: Alan Finkel’s Report a ‘Death Wish’
Among the leaders of fanatical death cults, Jim Jones was probably one of the more endearing and charismatic: in 1978, at ‘Jonestown’, Guyana he encouraged 910 of his followers to gulp down some grape-flavoured Kool Aid and the rest, as they say, is history (it certainly was for the faithful cordial consumers). The psychology … Continue reading Australia’s Renewable Policies an Economic Suicide Pact: Alan Finkel’s Report a ‘Death Wish’
Businesses & Households Crushed: Ontario’s Wind Power Obsession Sends Power Prices into Orbit, Thousands Live With No Power
My plan, 'my bad'.... *** Thanks to its Liberal Government and their fanatical pursuit of subsidised wind power, Ontario faces a monumental social and economic crisis. Here's the view of an unfolding calamity from a battered, but once proud and prosperous province. The five sins behind Kathleen Wynne’s power failure: Why the Ontario Liberals under … Continue reading Businesses & Households Crushed: Ontario’s Wind Power Obsession Sends Power Prices into Orbit, Thousands Live With No Power
Henry Ergas: the CEFC Labor/Green folly in the extreme
The Clean Energy Finance Corporation is the brainchild of the Green-Labor alliance that left the Australian taxpayer as the unwilling underwriters of highly speculative wind power ventures that conventional banks won't touch with a barge pole. The CEFC is an outfit living on borrowed time - the Coalition have sworn that it'll be scrapped … Continue reading Henry Ergas: the CEFC Labor/Green folly in the extreme
Judith Sloan: Junking the RET is the right thing to do
Judith Sloan has already entered the STT Pantheon with an earlier piece on the insanity that is the RET (see our post here). Well, the lass with a head for numbers - and smarter than brain pie - is back at it with this sizzling piece from The Australian. Junking energy target is right The … Continue reading Judith Sloan: Junking the RET is the right thing to do
Donna Laframboise: “Global Warming” – The Greatest Lie Ever Told: Pt 3
Donna Laframboise is a Canadian feminist, journalist, writer, and photographer – and is the author of “The Delinquent Teenager Who Was Mistaken for the World’s Top Climate Expert” (2011) - a book that has a pretty fair crack at the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Donna also runs a site called noconsensus.org - that attacks … Continue reading Donna Laframboise: “Global Warming” – The Greatest Lie Ever Told: Pt 3
Show me the money! SHOW ME THE MONEY!
Study: Wind Power Costs Taxpayers Billions of Dollars Townhall.com Katie Pavlich 15 October 2013 According to a new study conducted by Texas Tech University Professor Dr. Michael Giberson for the Institute for Energy Research, the government and wind lobby aren’t telling taxpayers the whole truth about how much wind energy really costs. The study comes … Continue reading Show me the money! SHOW ME THE MONEY!
Miliband off with the pixies as Brits brace for Winter of Discontent
STT has given quite a bit of coverage on how Britain’s insane rush to install hundreds of giant fans has led to power-price-penury in Ol’ Blighty – see our posts here, here and here. But it seems that energy policy hypocrisy in the UK has a new name – “Ed Miliband”. Ed apparently believes Britain … Continue reading Miliband off with the pixies as Brits brace for Winter of Discontent
Coalition Get Set to Scrap the RET
With Tony Abbott's sweep to victory comes the prospect of putting some sense back into Australian energy policy. Here's one of his number - Dennis Jensen - writing in The Australian last Friday. Profitable path to sustainability The Australian Dennis Jensen 27 September, 2013 BJORN Lomborg has stated “if it is not economic, it is … Continue reading Coalition Get Set to Scrap the RET
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