David Cameron's Conservatives strode to outright power on the back of a 'crystal clear' manifesto to cut subsidies to wind power and to give locals the right to veto wind farm projects at the planning stage. But, in a 'never-say-die' last ditch attempt to obtain 'backdoor' access to the perpetual subsidies that are the only … Continue reading Doomed & Desperate: UK Wind Industry Attempts to Engineer Backdoor Subsidies
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The Wind Industry: Always and Everywhere the Result of Massive & Endless Subsidies (Part 2)
**** In yesterday’s post - The Wind Industry: Always and Everywhere the Result of Massive & Endless Subsidies (Part 1) - we covered the fact that the Australian wind industry exists - and ONLY exists - for one single purpose: to wallow in a subsidy stream which will hit $3 billion annually in 2019; and … Continue reading The Wind Industry: Always and Everywhere the Result of Massive & Endless Subsidies (Part 2)
Rocketing Power Prices see Subsidies Slashed, Bringing Europe’s Wind Industry to its Knees
**** The Australian wind industry is copping a belting from all sides at the moment. With the Senate Inquiry about to release its final report on the great wind power fraud; retailers flatly refusing to enter long-term Power Purchase Agreements - essential to obtain finance for new wind farms; and with an increasing number of … Continue reading Rocketing Power Prices see Subsidies Slashed, Bringing Europe’s Wind Industry to its Knees
Deliverance for Brits: David Cameron Empties Subsidy Trough & 250 Wind Farms Get Scrapped
**** The wind industry isn’t powered by wind; it’s fuelled by massive and endless subsidies. If ever that proposition needed support, then events in the UK since David Cameron’s election win provide plenty. 250 onshore windfarms will be scrapped as taxpayer subsidies are axed Daily Express John Ingham 22 June 2015 LARGE swathes of the … Continue reading Deliverance for Brits: David Cameron Empties Subsidy Trough & 250 Wind Farms Get Scrapped
Doomed UK Wind Power Outfits Reduced to Idle Legal Threats
**** The Guardian (both in its home territory, the UK and in its doppelganger Australian version) is the ecofacists’ megaphone – and is duly lapped up with relish by the intellectual pygmies of the hard-‘green’-left or – as James Delingpole aptly dubbed them; “greentards”. Both here and in the UK, The Guardian has been the … Continue reading Doomed UK Wind Power Outfits Reduced to Idle Legal Threats