As the wind industry faces its inevitable Armageddon, and with their rearguard reduced to a miserable and angry rump, moves by Donald Trump to dismantle the Climate Industrial Complex gather apace. Which brings us to this week’s roundup. The team from Jo Nova highlights the fact that the massive and endless subsidies forked out to … Continue reading Stop These Things’ Weekly Round Up: 13 April 2025
Tag: wind farm litigation
Private Property: Wind & Solar Outfits Have No Right to Destroy Your Community
That hard-working farmers and rural folk reject the ‘opportunity’ to be overrun by giant industrial wind turbines and endless seas of solar panels is no surprise. Why would anyone in their senses welcome the single most destructive force into their communities: subsidised wind and solar. Peaceful, prosperous and productive farming communities worked out long ago … Continue reading Private Property: Wind & Solar Outfits Have No Right to Destroy Your Community
How The Wind Industry Propaganda Machine Smears Its Community Based Opponents
The wind industry fights dirty, just stand between it and a bucket of subsidies and you’ll soon find out what we mean. True enough, corporates of all descriptions are adept at manipulating the message to advance their interests. But the wind industry and its political enablers operate at a whole different level. The strategies are … Continue reading How The Wind Industry Propaganda Machine Smears Its Community Based Opponents
Renewables Rejected: How American Communities Successfully Block Wind & Solar Projects
Americans fight - which is the only way to beat Big Wind and Big Solar when they’re threatening anyone’s backyard. Over the last few years, American communities have banded together, got organised and lawyered up. The result is an enviable string of victories by which pro-community and pro-reliable energy groups have defeated the crony capitalists … Continue reading Renewables Rejected: How American Communities Successfully Block Wind & Solar Projects
Grand Cover-Up: Sierra Club Conceals American’s Growing Hostility to Wind Power
The Sierra Club reckons wind power is the future, but hundreds of industrial wind projects have been canned across the USA, and plenty more are being quietly withdrawn, thanks to growing community resentment and hostility towards industrial wind power. The only way to prevent industrial wind power from destroying your hitherto peaceful and prosperous community … Continue reading Grand Cover-Up: Sierra Club Conceals American’s Growing Hostility to Wind Power
No Place For Man or Beast: Irish Family Pockets €225,000 From Wind Power Outfit For Noise Torture
Wind developers face liability in the millions for the nuisance caused by unrelenting, turbine generated low-frequency noise and infrasound. Litigation is where the rubber hits the road: myths get replaced with facts; evidence overtakes spin and propaganda. Court rooms (and where they determine the facts, juries) strike fear into the (ordinarily icy) hearts of those … Continue reading No Place For Man or Beast: Irish Family Pockets €225,000 From Wind Power Outfit For Noise Torture
Bogus Wind Farm Plan Scotched: Developer Caught Out Lying In Planning Application
Wind factory developers are universally despised bunch, whose penchant for bullying, lying and deceiving locals knows no bounds. Little wonder that the communities they threaten quickly close ranks and, when they’ve got the resources, lawyer up and fight. And, so it was, in Victoria’s Gippsland, where a group of pro-community defenders managed to expose the … Continue reading Bogus Wind Farm Plan Scotched: Developer Caught Out Lying In Planning Application
Fightin’ Irish: Local Mob Goes To War Over Threatened Wind Farm
Community hostility to industrial wind power is inevitable, when the community in question is the one that ends up with 300 tonne monsters speared in its backyard. The characters that never leave the inner-city latte zone are more than happy to destroy your rural landscape, your peaceful rural way of life and the value of your homes and properties; it’s a … Continue reading Fightin’ Irish: Local Mob Goes To War Over Threatened Wind Farm
Settling Up: Irish Wind Farm Operator Pays Three Children €225,000 Compensation For Suffering Caused by Turbine Noise
Wind developers face liability in the millions for the nuisance caused by unrelenting, turbine generated low-frequency noise and infrasound. Litigation is where the rubber hits the road: myths get replaced with facts; evidence overtakes spin and propaganda. Court rooms (and where they determine the facts, juries) strike fear into the (ordinarily icy) hearts of those … Continue reading Settling Up: Irish Wind Farm Operator Pays Three Children €225,000 Compensation For Suffering Caused by Turbine Noise
Rare Birds: Court Scotches Wind Farm Proposal to Prevent Inevitable Bird Slaughter
Courts that aren’t biased in favour of the wind industry are rare birds, indeed. Slowly but surely, however, the law is catching up with the scope and scale of the environmental and societal harm caused whenever these things get speared into rural communities, farmland and forests. Ireland is no exception. The Emerald Isle has been … Continue reading Rare Birds: Court Scotches Wind Farm Proposal to Prevent Inevitable Bird Slaughter