South Australia isn't the only place in the world where subsidised, intermittent and wholly unreliable wind power has become a proven social and economic disaster. Oh no. The inevitable consequences of trying to run an economy on the whims of the weather are universal. In this very detailed study from Wisconsin - based on actual … Continue reading Wisconsin Study: Subsidised Wind Power a Certified Job Killer
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Desperate Salvage Mission: Europeans Slash Wind & Solar Subsidy Schemes
Europe’s Energy Crisis Poses Warning for the U.S. Breitbart Terry Jarret 14 April 2016 Europe has a problem that may soon become ours. Countries including Germany, Spain, and England are finding that their recent “green energy” experiments are proving too costly to continue. Between 2005—when the European Union adopted its emissions trading scheme—and 2014, residential … Continue reading Desperate Salvage Mission: Europeans Slash Wind & Solar Subsidy Schemes
US Study Shows Wind Power Push to Kill 1.2 Million Real Jobs
Most, gifted with the slightest grip on the basics of economics, pick up on the fact that producers of widgets (and the like) are driven by the prospect of profits (a motive lost on Labor/Green apparatchiks), which, in turn depend upon input costs. For widget makers, butchers, bakers and the like, drive up input costs … Continue reading US Study Shows Wind Power Push to Kill 1.2 Million Real Jobs
Wind Power Disaster Unfolds: SA Facing Total Blackouts, Rocketing Power Prices & Thousands More Chopped from the Grid
**** To call what South Australia’s Labor government has ‘gifted’ their constituents an energy ‘policy’, is to flatter it as involving some kind of genuine ‘design’. It’s an economic debacle, pure and simple. The current mess started under former Premier, Mike Rann – a former spin-doctor, whose relatives lined up at the wind power subsidy … Continue reading Wind Power Disaster Unfolds: SA Facing Total Blackouts, Rocketing Power Prices & Thousands More Chopped from the Grid
Wind Power Subsidies Crushing Families & Killing Thousands of Real Jobs
**** The wind industry’s fortunes are waning all over the globe. As politicians face the wrath of furious voters lumbered with the ludicrous costs of backing an entirely meaningless power generation source - subsidies are being slashed; investors are grabbing their money on the way out, before the whole Ponzi scheme inevitably collapses; and wind … Continue reading Wind Power Subsidies Crushing Families & Killing Thousands of Real Jobs
Canada’s Wind Power Disaster Laid Bare
Ontario is about to boil over, as impacted and threatened communities unite in seething rage at what their political betters have done to energy policy (see our post here). The hard-green-left Liberals have created a wind power policy so insane as to beggar belief: sending power prices through the roof (referred to as “hydro bills”, … Continue reading Canada’s Wind Power Disaster Laid Bare
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