At the risk of sounding like a broken record, we’ve said it before, and we’ll keep saying it – the wind industry exists – and ONLY exists – for one single purpose: to wallow in a massive subsidy stream that – in order to keep this monstrous Ponzi scheme alive – will need to outlast … Continue reading European Wind Power Outfits Reduced to ‘Subsidy Beggars’
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‘Fighters’ Win: Another UK Wind Farm Scrapped in Response to Dogged Opposition
**** As the spruikers selling tickets in a lottery tell us: “you’ve got to be in it, to win it”. And so it is with killing off the greatest economic and environmental fraud of all time. ‘Fighters’ have a remarkable tendency to win. Those that don’t, tend to get steam-rolled, at about the same rate. … Continue reading ‘Fighters’ Win: Another UK Wind Farm Scrapped in Response to Dogged Opposition
China’s Wind Power ‘Dream’ Wilts as Subsidies Wound Back
*** In recent times – with the wind industry taking a belting around the planet – its spruikers have taken to clinging to any vestige of hope, with the anxious zeal of shipwreck survivors happening upon a little fortuitous flotsam. One such “hope”, is their belief that China provides the perfect example of what wind … Continue reading China’s Wind Power ‘Dream’ Wilts as Subsidies Wound Back
The Wind Industry’s Days of ‘Wine & Roses’ are Over: Australian Senate says Massive Subsidies Should End
**** Renewable energy handouts winding down The Australian Graham Lloyd 6 August 2015 There is a real-world example of what can happen when subsidies are cut and greater scrutiny is applied to renewable energy projects, buried in the pages of the much maligned Senate committee report into wind turbines and health. In January 2012, following … Continue reading The Wind Industry’s Days of ‘Wine & Roses’ are Over: Australian Senate says Massive Subsidies Should End
The Wind Industry: Always and Everywhere the Result of Massive & Endless Subsidies (Part 1)
**** In Australia, the wind industry exists - and ONLY exists - to wallow in a subsidy stream which will hit $3 billion annually in 2019; and continue at that colossal rate until 2031. The cost of the greatest subsidy rort in the history of the Commonwealth will exceed $45 billion - every last cent … Continue reading The Wind Industry: Always and Everywhere the Result of Massive & Endless Subsidies (Part 1)
Adam Creighton: Labor’s Ludicrous Wind Power Policy to Squander more than $100 Billion
**** In Sunday’s post, we detailed Labor’s descent into wind power madness – with its impossible push for a 50% renewable energy target. One of the immediate responses has come from the press-pack; who have now turned on the great wind power fraud with a vengeance. Journalists with a modicum of common sense have woken … Continue reading Adam Creighton: Labor’s Ludicrous Wind Power Policy to Squander more than $100 Billion
Wind Power Fraud Finally Exposed: Senator John Madigan Details LRET’s Astronomical 45 Billion Dollar Cost to Power Consumers
When the Chinese make the suggestion “may you live in interesting times” they don’t mean you well – it’s more of a veiled warning about the perils of what’s lurking over the horizon – and some even characterise it as a curse. Well, it seems that the wind industry is living in VERY interesting times. … Continue reading Wind Power Fraud Finally Exposed: Senator John Madigan Details LRET’s Astronomical 45 Billion Dollar Cost to Power Consumers
UK’s Wind Industry in Meltdown: Cameron to Flush-Out DECC’s Detritus
**** The wind industry's current form reminds STT of Simon Pegg's character in 'How to Lose Friends and Alienate People', Sidney Young - blunt, gormless, and ready to pull out all stops to ensure every one who counts hates him. Now that they've lost the grip on the game in countries where they thought they … Continue reading UK’s Wind Industry in Meltdown: Cameron to Flush-Out DECC’s Detritus
Wind Power’s Toxic Embrace
**** Our Toxic Relationship with Wind Power The Valley Patriot Christine Morabito February, 2015 If clean, safe and efficient energy is to be our standard, then why use wind power at all? When we examine the entire process, the construction and operation of wind turbines is a dangerous and toxic affair. It begins with the … Continue reading Wind Power’s Toxic Embrace
Top US Energy Economist Takes the Scalpel to the Great Wind Power Fraud
**** One of the great mysteries behind the lunacy that is the great wind power fraud is how and why so many governments launched into mandating massive and endless subsidies (filched from unwitting power consumers and/or taxpayers) for an utterly meaningless power generation source - WITHOUT ever having carried out a cost/benefit analysis? You know, … Continue reading Top US Energy Economist Takes the Scalpel to the Great Wind Power Fraud
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