Wind Farms: As “Safe as Houses”

**** STT has worked pretty solidly to cover the increasing numbers of turbine blades that routinely unshackle themselves in bids for airborne freedom, troublesome events, which the wind industry euphemistically calls “component liberation” (see our posts here and here and here and here). But lately, STT has been working over-time to keep up with the […]

BUSHFIRE RED ALERT: Wind Power Really Is Setting the World on FIRE

**** As the Australian countryside turns to the golden hues of summer, the attentions of its farming and rural communities also turn: hundreds of eager eyes become fixed on the horizon for tell-tale signs of the smoke that heralds the bushfires that cast fear amongst those that live and work in the bush. Rules are […]

German Offshore Fan Plan almost Kaput

The bigger they come, the harder they fall. And none will fall harder than the German wind weasel.  Germans have woken up to the obscene costs of supporting a power generation system based on perverse ideology – rather than economic (or even common) sense. Here’s Der Spiegel on how the scam is grinding to a […]

Suzlon – sets new benchmark for managing “community outrage”

We’ve reported on just how rotten the wind industry is – from top to bottom – and whether it’s bribery and fraud; vote rigging scandals; tax fraud; investor fraud or REC fraud – wind weasels set a benchmark that a snake can comfortably crawl over. We’ve looked at how nothing is sacred when there’s a […]

Indian wind power generators told to put up or pay up

Run on a fat pile of subsidies, given in return for nothing but hollow promises – the wind industry has just been called to back its wild claims about powering millions of homes for “free” in India. No doubt confected outrage will follow from wind weasels and the parasites that feed off of them. HOW […]

Dr Roger Sexton – CERES the most the most ill-conceived development project ever seen

For some time STT has been following the battle to save the Heartland – on SA’s Yorke Peninsula and home to Australia’s best barley growing country – bar none. Here’s a press release from David Ridgway on the latest before the SA Wind Power Select Committee. “We don’t want power station,” Yorke Peninsula landholders say […]

Council says no to Ceres

We congratulate Heartland Farmers for their effective grassroots campaign to stop these things. We applaud the District Council of York Peninsula for its good sense and ability to see through the spin of the wind industry. See the report from an STT correspondent at the bottom of this post. From Adelaide Now 28 March, 2013: […]

So what went wrong with the Ceres wind farm information meeting?

“Their so-called public consultation process is a perfect example of how developers stifle the democratic rights we believe we have – those rights slowly but surely are being taken away by politicians, development proposals and anyone else with dollar signs in their sights.” From the Yorke Peninsula Country Times. Mr Thomson is a former mayor […]

Sit down and shut up – or we’ll call the police

You will enter the room only if you have the right colored card. You will not ask questions until we say you can ask questions. If you cause trouble, we will call the police and you will be removed. A public meeting held in a small South Australian outback town has shed new light on […]