Remember Life Before Wind Turbines Were Speared Into the Heart of Your Community?

Remember all those glowing stories about wind power outfits being welcomed into rural communities with open arms? You know, tales about how farmers are dying to have turbines lined up all over their properties? How locals can’t wait to pick up some of the thousands of permanent, high paying jobs on offer? How developers are … Continue reading Remember Life Before Wind Turbines Were Speared Into the Heart of Your Community?

German Opposition to Wind Farms Spawns New Political Party

Remember all the guff about Germans loving wind power to bits? And stories about how Germany is the wind power pioneer, and that its cheerful rural volk are 100% behind having thousands of these things speared all over their bucolic homeland? No? We've forgotten them too. German wind farm neighbours suffer from incessant turbine generated … Continue reading German Opposition to Wind Farms Spawns New Political Party

The More People Learn About Wind Power – The More They Hate It!

**** Remember all those glowing stories about wind power outfits being welcomed into rural communities with open arms? You know, tales about how farmers are dying to have turbines lined up all over their properties? How locals can’t wait to pick up some of the thousands of permanent, high paying jobs on offer? How developers … Continue reading The More People Learn About Wind Power – The More They Hate It!

Irish Gunmen Raise Arms & Kill Off Threatened Ulster Wind Farm

**** The six counties that comprise what’s referred to as Northern Ireland have had what might be described as a ‘colourful’ history. A little like the Middle East - where the past is never past - protagonists and antagonists have sought to lay blame and fault on each other - in an endless cycle of … Continue reading Irish Gunmen Raise Arms & Kill Off Threatened Ulster Wind Farm

‘Deer Wind Developer, We Hate You, With a Burning Passion. Yours, the Deerhunter’ ..

**** Linguistic pedants might wish to take issue with the apparent misspelling, appearing in the title above. However, the choice of “deer” rather than “dear” was a deliberate little wordplay on the subject matter of today’s post. STT has reported on a variety of steps taken by community defenders around the globe: Angry Wind Farm … Continue reading ‘Deer Wind Developer, We Hate You, With a Burning Passion. Yours, the Deerhunter’ ..

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

Rye Park Rumble: 91% of Locals Hostile to Trustpower’s Planned Wind Farm Disaster

A week or so back we covered the antics of another foreign owned wind power outfit struggling to come to grips with the fact that Australian rural communities have had - as they say - ‘a gutful’ of the wind industry’s lies, treachery and deceit. And they’ve especially had enough of the bully-boy, stand-over tactics … Continue reading Rye Park Rumble: 91% of Locals Hostile to Trustpower’s Planned Wind Farm Disaster

Scots Fight-back as Wind Power Outfit Aims to Thump its ‘Community Message’ Home

**** Remember all those glowing stories about wind power outfits being welcomed into rural communities with open arms? You know, tales about how farmers are dying to have turbines lined up all over their properties? How locals can’t wait to pick up some of the thousands of permanent, high paying jobs on offer? How developers … Continue reading Scots Fight-back as Wind Power Outfit Aims to Thump its ‘Community Message’ Home