**** Ministers accused of trying to ‘buy off’ local discontent on wind farms Western Morning News Phil Goodwin 12 October 2014 Landscape campaigners have described the latest Government moves to help communities obtain financial benefits from wind farms as a guide to bribery. The Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) has set out new … Continue reading UK Wind Industry Turns to Bribery as it Fails to “Win Brit’s Hearts & Minds”
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Brits Belted by Insanely Expensive and Utterly Unreliable Wind Power
**** Britain’s political betters have set it up for one enormous gamble. Britain is wagering its entire economic future on its – out of control – wind power boondoggle. Back in January, The Economist reported on the INSANE cost of delivering offshore wind power – where generators are guaranteed obscene returns – being able to … Continue reading Brits Belted by Insanely Expensive and Utterly Unreliable Wind Power
UK’s Wind Power Debacle Threatens to Leave Brits in the Dark
**** Scrap the Climate Change Act to keep the lights on, says Owen Paterson The Telegraph Christopher Hope 11 October 2014 The Climate Change Act 2008, which ties Britain into stringent environmental measures, should be suspended - and then scrapped - if other countries refuse to agree legally binding targets, says Owen Paterson MP Britain … Continue reading UK’s Wind Power Debacle Threatens to Leave Brits in the Dark
The Wind Industry is based on a Central, Endlessly Repeated Lie
*** Lunacy on sea: As Ministers agree to the world’s biggest wind farm off Brighton, has Britain ever succumbed to a more catastrophic folly? The Daily Mail Christopher Booker 2 August 2014 What should be our reaction to daft stories like the one recently reported in the Daily Mail about the 60ft wind turbine put … Continue reading The Wind Industry is based on a Central, Endlessly Repeated Lie
Brits Being Fleeced for £billions by Offshore Wind Farm Outfits
Britain’s political betters have set it up for one enormous gamble. Britain is wagering its entire economic future on its – out of control – wind power boondoggle. Back in January, The Economist reported on the INSANE cost of delivering offshore wind power – where generators are guaranteed obscene returns – being able to charge … Continue reading Brits Being Fleeced for £billions by Offshore Wind Farm Outfits
Wind Farms & “Community Division”: Tales from Rye Park (NSW) & Northumberland (UK)
*** Naked greed, institutional corruption and State-sanctioned corporate bullying and thuggery are part and parcel of the wind industry, wherever you go. We recount below a tale from Northumberland that could have been written anywhere that giant fans have been slung up in the world. In tales like these the phrase “community division” often appears. … Continue reading Wind Farms & “Community Division”: Tales from Rye Park (NSW) & Northumberland (UK)
Wind Power in Britain: it’s Robin Hood in Reverse
A while back, there was a plucky young English lad, called Robin Hood, who was pretty handy with both long-bow and sword; and so comfortable with expressing his “feminine side” that he wasn’t afraid to be seen in figure hugging green tights. Hood hung out with his band of Merry Men in Sherwood Forest, dodging … Continue reading Wind Power in Britain: it’s Robin Hood in Reverse
Brits put All their Eggs in the Wind Power Basket
Having slung up thousands of giant fans the Brits now face a brewing energy crisis. Britain has thrown £billions in subsidies at wind power and has clearly put way too many eggs in the same (nonsensical) basket. Here’s lefty rag The Guardian on the looming – but perfectly avoidable – wind power driven catastrophe. Blackouts … Continue reading Brits put All their Eggs in the Wind Power Basket
Now That Ain’t Workin’, That’s the Way You Do It
**** British wind weasels have taken Mark Knopfler’s ode to indolent, but loaded, rock stars quite literally and are clearly out to “Get their money for nothing and their chicks for free.” Here’s The Telegraph on the latest UK wind scam. Wind farms handed £5 million to switch off turbines as thousands of homes left … Continue reading Now That Ain’t Workin’, That’s the Way You Do It
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