**** In recent weeks, STT followers have been treated to a pitched battle between Australia’s National broadcaster, the ABC’s “Ministry of Truth” (aka Media Watch) and the facts. In Media Watch's case, it's a battle with the true facts about the known and obvious adverse health effects caused by incessant turbine generated low-frequency noise and … Continue reading Britain’s Ministry of Truth – the BBC – omits all but the “Convenient” facts on the Great Wind Power Fraud
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James Delingpole: UK’s Wind Power Debacle Reaches “High Farce”
**** The great wind farm farce The Telegraph James Delingpole 22 February 2015 Ed Davey’s plan for 400 turbines to be erected off the Yorkshire coast will be a heinous burden on the taxpayer If ever there’s a competition for the most spectacularly pointless and wasteful project in engineering history, you’d be hard pressed to … Continue reading James Delingpole: UK’s Wind Power Debacle Reaches “High Farce”
Wind Industry Howls & Predicts Mass Exodus from Australia as Subsidy Trough Dries Up
Australian windfarms face $13 bln wipeout from political impasse Reuters Byron Kaye 9 February 2015 * PM Abbott wants to cut state support for industry * Labor opposition won’t back cutting clean energy target * Uncertain support regime is causing a freeze in investment * Some predict an exodus of investment SYDNEY, Feb 8 (Reuters) … Continue reading Wind Industry Howls & Predicts Mass Exodus from Australia as Subsidy Trough Dries Up
US Wind Industry Shudders as Senate Lines Up to Slam the PTC Subsidy Scam
**** Senate votes down PTC amendment E&E Daily Nick Juliano 29 January 2015 A majority of the Senate went on record yesterday against reinstating an expired renewable energy tax credit through the end of the decade. The 47-51 failure of a nonbinding measure calling for a five-year extension of the production tax credit (PTC) delivered … Continue reading US Wind Industry Shudders as Senate Lines Up to Slam the PTC Subsidy Scam
The Wind Industry’s Need for Massive Subsidies: The Never Ending Story
**** Wind Power Is Intermittent, But Subsidies Are Eternal Wall Street Journal Tim Phillips 1 December 2014 “Tax credits have been essential to the economic viability of wind farms so far, but will not be needed within a few years.” So said Christopher Flavin, now president emeritus of the Worldwatch Institute - in 1984. Thirty … Continue reading The Wind Industry’s Need for Massive Subsidies: The Never Ending Story
Germany’s Wind Power Disaster: An Economic & Environmental Failure
**** The Germans went into wind power harder and faster than anyone else – and the cost of doing so is catching up with a vengeance. The subsidies have been colossal, the impacts on the electricity market chaotic and – contrary to the environmental purpose of the policy – CO2 emissions are rising fast: if … Continue reading Germany’s Wind Power Disaster: An Economic & Environmental Failure
Institute for Energy Research Takes the Scalpel to the Great Wind Power Fraud
As time goes by, the number of crack energy market experts joining the effort to bring the great wind power fraud to its inevitable denouement – and the quality of their work directed at that fine and noble task – has increased exponentially. The American "Institute for Energy Research" has just released a brilliant piece … Continue reading Institute for Energy Research Takes the Scalpel to the Great Wind Power Fraud
Casualties of South Australia’s Wind Power Debacle Mount: Thousands Can’t Afford Power
**** The new protectionism: renewable energy industry’s shameless self-promotion Catallaxy Files Alan Moran 5 December 2014 According to Christopher Flavin, the President emeritus of the Worldwatch Institute, in a few years’ time wind energy will not need to be subsidised. Oh wait! He said that back in 1984. And he was not alone, Booz, Allen … Continue reading Casualties of South Australia’s Wind Power Debacle Mount: Thousands Can’t Afford Power
Senator Matt Canavan: Australia’s RET Policy: “Robin Hood visits Bizarro World”
**** Labor’s energy policy nothing but wind The Australian Matt Canavan 4 December 2014 GEORGE Orwell once said that political language was designed to “give an appearance of solidity to pure wind”. Step forward exhibit A and the Labor Party’s explanation for refusing to fix the mess that is Australian renewable energy policy. Mark Butler … Continue reading Senator Matt Canavan: Australia’s RET Policy: “Robin Hood visits Bizarro World”
The Guardian Caught Out Pumping Dale Vince’s Bogus Wind Power Propaganda
**** 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 The Guardian Caught Out Pumping Dale Vince’s Bogus Wind Power Propaganda
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