The election of Donald Trump has caused conniption fits amongst the hard green-left in the United States and elsewhere. Pundits predicted, with supreme confidence, that Hillary Clinton would take the White House and that all would be well in the politically correct garden. However, America’s “basket of deplorables” had other ideas: a brash and vulgar … Continue reading Clinton ‘Trumped’: Vestas’ Shares in Freefall & Wind Industry in Full Scale Panic
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US Wind Power Outfits’ Shares Plummet – Hundreds of ‘Green’ Jobs Axed
**** Remember all those stories about the wind industry providing millions of groovy, well-paid ‘green’ jobs - as secure as Fort Knox? No? Sure, you’ll hear mention of loads of promised wind industry jobs - in fictional retellings from wind industry spruikers - as they wail about dreaded ‘uncertainty’ - causing bankers to baulk and … Continue reading US Wind Power Outfits’ Shares Plummet – Hundreds of ‘Green’ Jobs Axed
Wind Industry Welfare: How Crony Capitalism Drives the Great Wind Power Fraud
'Wind PTC Action Hub': Time to End Energy Cronyism Master Resource Robert Bradley Jr. 9 October 2015 “Without the PTC, any mandated wind generation would be an even bigger political problem because its cost inflation would be exposed. The wind-is-competitive-with-fossil-fuels hyperbole would be refuted in real time.” Congress enacted the Wind Production Tax Credit (PTC) in 1992 as a temporary measure … Continue reading Wind Industry Welfare: How Crony Capitalism Drives the Great Wind Power Fraud
US Wind Industry Shudders as Senate Lines Up to Slam the PTC Subsidy Scam
**** Senate votes down PTC amendment E&E Daily Nick Juliano 29 January 2015 A majority of the Senate went on record yesterday against reinstating an expired renewable energy tax credit through the end of the decade. The 47-51 failure of a nonbinding measure calling for a five-year extension of the production tax credit (PTC) delivered … Continue reading US Wind Industry Shudders as Senate Lines Up to Slam the PTC Subsidy Scam
Republican Mid-Term Victory Spells Doom for US Wind Industry
The US has just been through its mid-term elections, which saw sweeping gains by the Republican Party in the Senate, House, and in many gubernatorial elections, as well as state and local races. The Republicans gained control of the Senate for the first time since 2006, and increased their majority in the House. The Republicans … Continue reading Republican Mid-Term Victory Spells Doom for US Wind Industry