No matter where the wind industry plies its subsidy-soaked trade, rural folk soon turn hostile. Smart communities start fighting early and never give up. In the US, the wind industry is on the back foot, with well-organised and furious rural residents – fed up with being driven nuts in their homes, or being driven out … Continue reading If Your Community’s Fighting the Wind Industry – Keep Fighting, No Matter What
Tag: wind power in Ireland
Knocked Out: Irish Delighted at Decision to Rid County of Hideous Wind Turbines
Knock Iveagh’s community defenders have been fighting for remove hideous wind turbines from their emerald green landscape for years. Now, having delivered the knockout blow, locals are understandably delighted with their hard-fought victory. Get turbine down without delay - Knock Iveagh campaigners' delight as council calls for removal The County Down Outlook Matthew Dawson … Continue reading Knocked Out: Irish Delighted at Decision to Rid County of Hideous Wind Turbines
Busted: Irish Wind Project Slammed For Breaching EU Environmental Directives
It’s a rare and beautiful thing when wind power outfits have their feet held to the fire. Writing their own set of rules and riding roughshod over locals has been the standard mode of operation for the wind industry, from the get go. STT recently reported on the Irish government’s very own turbine troubles: it … Continue reading Busted: Irish Wind Project Slammed For Breaching EU Environmental Directives
Irish Government Slammed with €5m Fine Over Wind Farm’s Environmental Disaster
Getting into bed with wind developers is never going to end well. For its troubles, the Irish government has just been whacked with a €5m fine for failing to enforce its own environmental standards at a wind farm near Derrybrien, County Galway. During construction, the developer managed to wipeout half a mountain, sending a sea … Continue reading Irish Government Slammed with €5m Fine Over Wind Farm’s Environmental Disaster
Sick Again: Wind Turbine Infrasound Delivers Daily Torment to Wind Farm Neighbours
The wind industry doesn’t simply cause grid and power market chaos, it’s a guaranteed community wrecker, too. 300 tonne monsters set on 100 metre towers with 50-60 m blades (the outer tips of which are travelling at over 350 Kph) deliver a thumping, pulsing cacophony of low-frequency noise and infrasound, that drives neighbours nuts or … Continue reading Sick Again: Wind Turbine Infrasound Delivers Daily Torment to Wind Farm Neighbours
Cavalcade of Wind Farm Chaos: Turbines Collapse, Explode & Get Shot by Angry Neighbour
STT's sub-editor had a pretty tough time coming up with a headline that had some hope of capturing the cavalcade of chaos detailed in the stories below. We'll start with yet another turbine collapse in the Emerald Isle. Wind turbine collapses as storms batter Northern Ireland Belfast Telegraph David Young 03 February 2017 High winds … Continue reading Cavalcade of Wind Farm Chaos: Turbines Collapse, Explode & Get Shot by Angry Neighbour
Irish Fury Mounts: Protesters Mob Dáil Éireann Demanding an End to Pointless, Subsidised Wind Power
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
Irish Eyes Ain’t Smiling: Wind Power Push Sends Power Prices Into Orbit
The political lunatics in charge of Ireland's wind powered energy debacle are about to reap the reality of what they have sown. Despite all that puff and guff about wind power being free, and getting cheaper all the time, the Irish have just been told that the Public Service Obligation (a levy tacked on power bills … Continue reading Irish Eyes Ain’t Smiling: Wind Power Push Sends Power Prices Into Orbit
The Irish Wind Power Nightmare ‘An Expensive Mess’
**** As the wheels fall off the great wind power fraud around the Globe, we thought we'd head back to the future, with this prescient piece from the Emerald Isle from last year. Irish Energy Policy: An Expensive Mess The Sunday Times (Irish edition) Cormac Lucey 16 November 2014 In recent weeks political debate has … Continue reading The Irish Wind Power Nightmare ‘An Expensive Mess’
Wind Power Outfits – Thugs and Bullies the World Over
Potential threat to burial site on route to wind farm Press release, Inishowen, Donegal, Ireland 4 March 2015 PRESS RELEASE The developer of the wind farm at Crockbrack Hill has sent the Council a map that shows the route the turbines and related material will take from Noone’s Bridge past Ballinacrae Chapel into the Long … Continue reading Wind Power Outfits – Thugs and Bullies the World Over
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