**** The mandatory RET has seen the cost of around $9 billion worth of Renewable Energy Certificates added to retail power prices and recovered from all Australian power consumers. Under the Large-Scale Renewable Energy Target, a further $45 billion is designed to be transferred from power consumers to wind power outfits via the REC Tax/Subsidy … Continue reading ARREA Spears Wind Industry’s Parasites During Thumping Senate Appearance
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Global Investment Collapses: Investors Wake Up to the Wind Power Delusion
*** The wind industry is in meltdown around the globe, simply because investors have woken up to the monumental RISKS. Risks like: - turbines falling apart in less than 2 years; under pressure from voters, governments pulling the plug on the massive subsidies essential to keep the scam rolling; neighbours suing the operators to obtain … Continue reading Global Investment Collapses: Investors Wake Up to the Wind Power Delusion
Europe’s Wind Powered Recipe for Economic Disaster
**** Lessons from Europe: Recipe for a high-cost energy system Communities Digital News Steve Goreham 26 May 2015 CHICAGO, May 26, 2015 — While President Obama promotes renewable energy and members of Congress argue about energy policy, a renewable energy disaster is unfolding in Europe. Driven by a desire to halt climate change, Europe has … Continue reading Europe’s Wind Powered Recipe for Economic Disaster
Alan Moran: on the Insane & Pointless Cost of Wind Power
**** Green energy generates big costs for little gain Alan Moran Australian Financial Review 21 June 2015 Reports of the death of coal are greatly exaggerated. For green power is still very costly and uncompetitive, and likely to remain so despite all the subsidies. In this newspaper last week Richard Denniss opined that there was … Continue reading Alan Moran: on the Insane & Pointless Cost of Wind Power
Wind Turbines: The Evil Seed
They came in like a soft silent breeze Hushing the naïve Speaking with forked tongues Proclaiming black is green Maiming thinkers with corrupt words Casting a thick cloud of concern Residing with hidden evils Leaving a trail of trash Forever scarred The stench you see Smells of decay What appears above and below is a … Continue reading Wind Turbines: The Evil Seed
Larry Pickering: on the Quixotic Calamity of Wind
*** Larry Pickering is a four-time Walkley Award winning political commentator and Churchill Fellow, whose life's work has been irritating the loopy-left. Here he is slaying the great wind power fraud. It's more than a Quixotic Calamity Larry Pickering The Pickering Post 20 June 2015 **** The European Renewable Energy Foundation, a Green body supportive … Continue reading Larry Pickering: on the Quixotic Calamity of Wind
Hepburn Wind: Community Wind Farm ‘Helps’ Wombats with Other Peoples’ Money
**** Anyone that's looking to make a small fortune, need only hand a very large one to a community wind farm operator: More Wind Power Outfits Go Bust: “Farmer-Investors” Lose their Shirts in the US Community Wind Farm Investors Losing their Shirts Part of their pitch (some might call it laying bait for the more … Continue reading Hepburn Wind: Community Wind Farm ‘Helps’ Wombats with Other Peoples’ Money
Germany’s Wind Power Debacle: Economic Destruction on an “Astronomical Scale”
**** STT keeps a close eye on Germany. It’s held up by eco-fascist nut jobs around the globe as the wind power “Super Model” - although, as we pointed out in this recent post, their “pin-up girl” is looking a little worse for wear: Germany’s Wind Power ‘Dream’ Becomes a Living Nightmare Last week - … Continue reading Germany’s Wind Power Debacle: Economic Destruction on an “Astronomical Scale”
Doomed UK Wind Power Outfits Reduced to Idle Legal Threats
**** The Guardian (both in its home territory, the UK and in its doppelganger Australian version) is the ecofacists’ megaphone – and is duly lapped up with relish by the intellectual pygmies of the hard-‘green’-left or – as James Delingpole aptly dubbed them; “greentards”. Both here and in the UK, The Guardian has been the … Continue reading Doomed UK Wind Power Outfits Reduced to Idle Legal Threats
Time to Tune-In Tony: Coalition’s $46 Billion Wind Industry Rescue Package has Liberal Voters Seething
**** A week or so back, Tony Abbott’s Coalition struck a deal with Labor involving a $46 billion electricity tax aimed at salvaging what’s left of Australia’s wind industry (see our post here). The 'deal' - which has passed the House of Reps - and is on its way to the Senate - is seen … Continue reading Time to Tune-In Tony: Coalition’s $46 Billion Wind Industry Rescue Package has Liberal Voters Seething
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