Easter uprising, Dublin, April 2014. *** Over the millennia, the Irish have suffered their fair share of merciless oppression. But, whatever the agent of their misery, their antagonists are guaranteed of one thing: the Irish fight. And so it is with the wind industry, as it brazenly attempts to carpet every last inch of the … Continue reading Irish Fury Mounts: Protesters Mob Dáil Éireann Demanding an End to Pointless, Subsidised Wind Power
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Spanish Wind Developer’s Attempt to Bribe Vermont Voters Generates Local Outrage
A few posts back we covered the story of how a Spanish wind power outfit is attempting to bribe its way into Vermonter's hearts and minds, with fat piles of the cash it filches from taxpayers as subsidies. STT clearly underestimated the locals' sense of outrage: here are another couple of pieces on the efforts … Continue reading Spanish Wind Developer’s Attempt to Bribe Vermont Voters Generates Local Outrage
Wind Industry Corruption: Plug Secretly Pulled on Wind Farm Health Investigation
Back in March STT reported on events in Huron County, Ontario – where, overwhelmed by health complaints, regional authorities appeared to have relented in an effort to gather the evidence of the known and obvious effects of incessant turbine generated low-frequency noise and infrasound - and to act on it (see our post here). We … Continue reading Wind Industry Corruption: Plug Secretly Pulled on Wind Farm Health Investigation
Wind Industry Corruption in NSW: Planning Officer ‘Doctors’ Noise Impact Report to Get Project Approval
New South Wales is a hotbed of wind industry corruption, as Maurice Newman (the Business Adviser to former PM, Tony Abbott) laid plain during a recent interview with STT Champion, Alan Jones: Wind Industry Corruption in NSW: Maurice Newman Lifts the Lid Alan is back, this time with yet more detail on just how rotten … Continue reading Wind Industry Corruption in NSW: Planning Officer ‘Doctors’ Noise Impact Report to Get Project Approval
Wind Industry Corruption: US Fish & Wildlife Push to Excuse Rampant Eagle Slaughter
**** The wind industry and its parasites have – from the outset – pitched these things as a “planet saving, clean, green and environmentally friendly technology”; which doesn’t quite gel with the wholesale slaughter of birds and bats. Let’s call it an “inconvenient truth” (see our post here). Were anyone caught shooting eagles or other … Continue reading Wind Industry Corruption: US Fish & Wildlife Push to Excuse Rampant Eagle Slaughter
The Foul Stench in Falmouth: Wind Industry Corruption Runs Riot
As it goes in Falmouth, the wind industry goes everywhere: lying, bullying, bribery and good old fashioned fraud is the order of the day. Local boy, Frank Haggerty digs the dirt where the popular press fear to tread. Falmouth wind turbines corruption blows out of control Wind Action Frank Haggerty 1 May 2016 The Falmouth … Continue reading The Foul Stench in Falmouth: Wind Industry Corruption Runs Riot
How Wind Power Outfits ‘Grease’ Their Way to Planning Approvals
Every politician has a price, and the wind industry has the uncanny ability of naming it and, when the need arises, stumping it up. Not necessarily in brown paper bags, though - so-called 'political donations' often do the 'trick'. But there have been plenty of cases where outright bribery has been employed to put the … Continue reading How Wind Power Outfits ‘Grease’ Their Way to Planning Approvals
German Government Hunts Down Wind Industry Criminals & Corruption
**** What amuses STT is not that the wind attracts career criminals, but that they have the sanctimonious audacity to preach to the rest of us about their nobler-than-noble 'trade', while lying, cheating and bullying their way to profit from massive and (seemingly) endless subsidies chiselled out of us. One of the funnier cases, was … Continue reading German Government Hunts Down Wind Industry Criminals & Corruption
Mexican Wind Farm Madness: Wind Industry Crime & Corruption Crush an Ancient Culture
*** Renata Bessi is a freelance journalist and contributor the Americas Program and Desinformémonos. She has published articles in Brazilian media: The Trecheiro newspaper magazine, Página 22, Repórter Brasil, Rede Brasil Atual, Brasil de Fato, Outras Palavras. Santiago Navarro is an economist, a freelance journalist, photographer and contributor to the Americas Program, Desinformémonos and SubVersiones. Together they … Continue reading Mexican Wind Farm Madness: Wind Industry Crime & Corruption Crush an Ancient Culture
Queensland Government Cover Up: New Wind Farm Planning Code Deliberately Ignores its own Noise Expert’s Damning Advice
Hidden documents reveal expert advice on health dangers from wind farms ignored Wind Energy Queensland 11 December 2015 Right to information search reveals government noise expert’s advice withheld. The Queensland Government’s own noise expert has warned proposed rules for wind farms in the State could cause public health and environment problems. Bryan Lyons, spokesman for … Continue reading Queensland Government Cover Up: New Wind Farm Planning Code Deliberately Ignores its own Noise Expert’s Damning Advice