Stop These Things’ Weekly Round Up: 11 January 2026

2026 will go down in history as the moment when sanity finally returned to energy policy across the globe. The big switch started in the USA, where the turnaround is being driven by a man who hates these things with a passion. The Germans and Danes led the charge with their suicidal subsidised wind and … Continue reading Stop These Things’ Weekly Round Up: 11 January 2026

Under Siege: America’s Rural Communities Keep Defeating Big Wind & Solar Projects

The Land of the Free is most certainly the Home of the Brave, namely those communities with the temerity to stand up to the subsidy-soaked wind and solar ‘industries’ and drive them out of town. Resolute and clearly well-organised, America’s rural folk have been taking on wind and solar developers (so-called) for years now, and … Continue reading Under Siege: America’s Rural Communities Keep Defeating Big Wind & Solar Projects

Not In Anyone’s Backyard: The Truth Behind Rural America’s Great Wind & Solar Backlash

Eco-zealots, like Bill McKibben reckon rural folk just can’t wait to get 240m high wind turbines whirling in their backyard; and that if they express any resistance to such a ‘golden opportunity’, it’s all down to the nefarious activities of ‘evil’ fossil fuel overlords and right wingers spreading “misinformation” about how wonderful it is … Continue reading Not In Anyone’s Backyard: The Truth Behind Rural America’s Great Wind & Solar Backlash

American Farmers First: Community Fightback Ends Wind Industry’s Onslaught in Ohio

All winners start out as fighters. So it is in Ohio, where locals have brought the wind industry’s rural onslaught to a shuddering halt. Ohio’s legislature has introduced a raft of new rules which, had they been in force a decade ago, would have saved rural Ohio from subsidy sucking rent-seekers eager to ruin the … Continue reading American Farmers First: Community Fightback Ends Wind Industry’s Onslaught in Ohio