Planting 300 tonne whirling juggernauts out to sea has a variety of endangered species on a greasy path to extinction. One of them is the South-east Australia’s Orange-bellied Parrot - a timid and migratory species - at last count, its remaining numbers would struggle to fill a symphony orchestra. The North Atlantic Right Whale’s numbers … Continue reading Bird Brained: Grand Offshore Wind Power Plans Threaten Endangered Species Wipeout
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Wind Power Wipeout: Monster Wind Farm Threatens Rare & Endangered Eagles
Cars, cats and skyscrapers don’t kill Eagles – like the critically endangered Tasmanian wedge-tailed eagle, but 60m wind turbine blades with their tips travelling at 350Kph routinely smash them out of existence. The current crop of well-fed and poorly educated teens raging against the evil patriarchy and its grand conspiracy to cook the planet and … Continue reading Wind Power Wipeout: Monster Wind Farm Threatens Rare & Endangered Eagles
Overloaded: Australia’s Eastern Grid Threatened by Proposal for Monster Tasmanian Wind Farm
Electricity grids are finely balanced systems, which depend upon order and are wrecked by chaos; chaos of the kind these things deliver on a daily basis across Australia’s Eastern Grid. Pictured above - courtesy of Aneroid Energy - is the output of every wind turbine connected to Australia’s Eastern Grid, situated from Far North Queensland, … Continue reading Overloaded: Australia’s Eastern Grid Threatened by Proposal for Monster Tasmanian Wind Farm