Farmers are rejecting offers to host wind turbines to avoid being left with the massive cleanup costs after these things grind to a halt. At first blush, being paid an annual license fee of $10-25,000 per turbine, per year sounds lucrative enough. However, put that against the $600,000 plus cost of demolishing and removing a … Continue reading Farmers Rejecting Wind Power Projects to Avoid Massive Clean Up Costs
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Bullying, Lies & Deceit: Just Another Day’s Work For The Wind Industry
In order to worm their way into rural communities, wind industry goons employ a mix of varnished lies, deceit and old-school thuggery. Over the last decade, wind power outfits have been able to beguile the gullible and hoodwink the unsuspecting. They usually start with a colossal lie and work up from there. However, as soon … Continue reading Bullying, Lies & Deceit: Just Another Day’s Work For The Wind Industry
Suckers Sign Here: Wind Turbine Hosts Taken For Fools By Developers in One-Sided Land Contracts
The great wind power fraud depends on a few gullible land owners signing up to host turbines, just to pocket a few pieces of silver -selling their souls to charming wind power outfits like Thailand’s RATCH (see our posts here and here and here). No turbine hosts; no wind industry. Lured by annual licence fees of around $10-15,000 per turbine, … Continue reading Suckers Sign Here: Wind Turbine Hosts Taken For Fools By Developers in One-Sided Land Contracts
It’s a Fraud: The Wind Industry’s ‘Lies, Damned Lies and Statistics’ Exposed
American Pensmith, Mark Twain's quip about there being "three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics" fits neatly with the propaganda pedalled by the wind industry, its parasites and spruikers. This dissection of what America's Wind Energy Association dishes up on a daily basis is as good as it gets, in tearing away wind industry … Continue reading It’s a Fraud: The Wind Industry’s ‘Lies, Damned Lies and Statistics’ Exposed
Split Asunder: Wind Farms Cause Hatred & Permanent Community Division
After years of being shunned by former friends and neighbours for introducing turbines into their communities (or signing up for that to happen in future), many turbine hosts are keen to wind the clock back and make amends. Bitter community division, angry former friends and hostile neighbours are just one aspect of what has caused … Continue reading Split Asunder: Wind Farms Cause Hatred & Permanent Community Division
Wynne’s Wind Power Fantasy Puts Ontario in the Red
Wynne’s green energy putting Ontario in red London Free Press Jim Merriam 8 February 2016 It’s to be hoped the Fraser Institute didn’t spend much money on its recent study of the fiscal performance of Canada’s premiers. Every resident of Ontario able to sit up and take nourishment -- probably including Wiarton Willie last week … Continue reading Wynne’s Wind Power Fantasy Puts Ontario in the Red
Angry Neighbours Shoot-Up Wind Turbines; as Hosts Hit With $Millions in Developers’ Debts
**** On the back foot around the globe, the wind industry, its parasites and spruikers keep trying to convince the chattering classes that country people just can’t wait to snuggle up next to a cuddly bunch of Vestas V112s (see our post here). The pitch is that life for rural communities just isn’t complete without … Continue reading Angry Neighbours Shoot-Up Wind Turbines; as Hosts Hit With $Millions in Developers’ Debts
Liberal Senator – Chris Back – Demands Moratorium on New Wind Farms
**** Over bitter opposition from Labor and the Greens, and following almost 6 months of solid graft, 8 hearings in 4 States and the ACT, dozens of witnesses and almost 500 submissions, the Senate Inquiry into the great wind power fraud delivered its ‘doorstop’ final report, which runs to some 350 pages – available here: … Continue reading Liberal Senator – Chris Back – Demands Moratorium on New Wind Farms
SA Farmers Paid $1 Million to Host 19 Turbines Tell Senate they “Would Never Do it Again” due to “Unbearable” Sleep-Destroying Noise
**** Clive and Trina Gare are cattle graziers from South Australia’s Mid-North with their home property situated between Hallett and Jamestown. Since October 2010, the Gares have played host to 19, 2.1MW Suzlon s88 turbines, which sit on a range of hills to the West of their stately homestead. Under their contract with AGL they … Continue reading SA Farmers Paid $1 Million to Host 19 Turbines Tell Senate they “Would Never Do it Again” due to “Unbearable” Sleep-Destroying Noise
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