Wind power in Scotland – STOP THESE THINGS

Scotland’s Wind Industry Clear-Fells 17,283 Acres & Wipes Out 14,000,000 Trees To ‘Save’ Planet

February 22, 2020 by stopthesethings 22 Comments

Wiping out entire forest habitats is all part of our ‘inevitable’ transition to a wind powered future. Across Germany, millions of acres of forest have been clear-felled and great swathes cut through others, to allow some 30,000 of these things to be speared across Deutschland. The same wanton destruction has been integral to Scotland’s […]

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Priceless: Scots Forced to Pay Wind Farms £650,000,000 To NOT Generate Power

January 23, 2020 by stopthesethings 11 Comments

Once upon a time, electricity had a value defined by demand, not by the weather. Power that can’t be delivered as and when it’s needed has absolutely no commercial value. Which brings us to weather-dependent wind power; generated in chaotic, random intervals, it’s a case of either feast or famine. But businesses and households don’t […]

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Government Mandated Theft: The Great Scottish Wind Power Racket Unwrapped

August 18, 2017 by stopthesethings 1 Comment

Dr John Constable is Director of the Renewable Energy Foundation. Matt Ridley is a journalist and author. In this well-crafted piece they pair up to unwrap the greatest State sponsored fraud in history; this time as it’s playing out in Scotland. The Scottish wind-power racket CAPX John Constable and Matt Ridley 10 August 2017 Imagine […]

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Shock Horror! Poll Shows Tourists Hate Wind Turbines: Scotland’s Highlands Shunned

July 26, 2017 by stopthesethings 8 Comments

A decade or so ago, the wind industry used to include claims about the tourism potential of their proposed wind farm in their planning documents. For some reason, that pitch has been quietly removed from planning applications in recent years. Could it be that it’s not just the locals who hate the look of these […]

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Trawlermen vs Turbines: Offshore Wind Farms Putting Scottish Fishermen Out of Business

June 16, 2017 by stopthesethings 7 Comments

Celebrated in the BBC reality TV series, ‘Trawlermen’ the men that brave the waves in search of the seafood that graces British dining tables, restaurants and fish and chip shops risk life and limb to bring the catch home. Ruthlessly competitive, British fishermen not only have to contend with mountainous seas and other Trawlermen, now […]

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Scotland Squanders ₤Billions on Subsidised Wind & Gets Stone Age Power in Return

June 4, 2017 by stopthesethings 6 Comments

*** A decade or so from now, when thousands of wind turbines are quietly rusting in some dimwit’s back paddock, the next generation will rightly ask why states and whole nations squandered $billions on a wholly weather dependent power source, abandoned centuries ago for pretty obvious reasons? Eventually, the spotlight will turn on the political […]

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Scotland’s Wind Power Lunancy Escalates: Scots Forced to Pay £90m a Year to Wind Farms that Will Never Deliver Power

December 7, 2016 by stopthesethings 8 Comments

*** If Scots thought that their energy ‘policy’ couldn’t get any more bizarre, Nicola Sturgeon’s utterly bonkers decision to pay £90m a year to wind farms that will never deliver a single watt, has taken them on a trip with Alice down the rabbit hole. Sturgeon’s wind turbines cost UK £90m a year – to stay […]

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