Spain’s Wind Industry Slaughters Thousands of Endangered Birds With Impunity

The wind industry is all about getting away with it. Whether it’s slaughtering millions of birds and bats, or terrorising neighbours, wind power outfits pride themselves on avoiding liability to all and sundry. Over the last 20 years, Spain has been overrun with these things, including the pretty principality of Asturias on its northwest coast. … Continue reading Spain’s Wind Industry Slaughters Thousands of Endangered Birds With Impunity

Spain Puts its Economy Destroying Wind Industry to the Sword: ZERO MWs Installed in 2015

España launched into a subsidy-drenched, wind rush almost 20 years ago; for which it’s been lionized by wind-worshippers, worldwide. But its effort to conquer the wind and wallow in taxpayers’ (forced) largesse wasn’t confined to its own sunny climes. Like the Conquistadors of old, its wind power outfits launched off to all points, in search … Continue reading Spain Puts its Economy Destroying Wind Industry to the Sword: ZERO MWs Installed in 2015

European Wind Power Outfits Reduced to ‘Subsidy Beggars’

At the risk of sounding like a broken record, we’ve said it before, and we’ll keep saying it – the wind industry exists – and ONLY exists – for one single purpose: to wallow in a massive subsidy stream that – in order to keep this monstrous Ponzi scheme alive – will need to outlast … Continue reading European Wind Power Outfits Reduced to ‘Subsidy Beggars’

Noose Tightens on Spain’s Wind Farm Fraudsters: Tax Inspectors Uncover €110 million Paid as Bribes & Backhanders

 **** The wind industry seems to attract a particular class of bloke, in much the same way that the Prohibition era drew lots of heavy-set Italians to the Mob. Maybe that seemingly endless stream of massive subsidies filched from taxpayers and power consumers generates the same allure as festering dung does for swarms of flies? … Continue reading Noose Tightens on Spain’s Wind Farm Fraudsters: Tax Inspectors Uncover €110 million Paid as Bribes & Backhanders

European Government Support for Wind Power Collapses

**** Europe winds back the clock on windmills The Sunday Times Danny Forston 23 November 2014 Lured by subsidies, the power companies went green. But to keep the lights on they have to burn coal Sixty miles northeast of Düsseldorf, outside the town of Hamm in northwest Germany, workers are giving a final tune-up to … Continue reading European Government Support for Wind Power Collapses

Spain’s Renewable Energy Disaster Draws to a Close

**** Spain has been held up by the gullible and naïve (some might say, cynical and malign) hard-green-left as the model for our “new” energy future. Some “model”!! The Spaniards have thrown 100s of billions of euros in subsidies at solar and wind power, and have achieved nothing but economic punishment in return. The power … Continue reading Spain’s Renewable Energy Disaster Draws to a Close

Spaniards cry Olé – as its great wind scam nears the end

A while back we started running a form guide looking at the odds on which country would be first to put an end to the great wind power fraud.  Front runners were Australia, the UK and Germany. But a rank outsider – España - has just caught the bookies’ eyes. As if Spanish wind swindlers … Continue reading Spaniards cry Olé – as its great wind scam nears the end