**** Remember all those glowing stories about wind power outfits being welcomed into rural communities with open arms? You know, tales about how farmers are dying to have turbines lined up all over their properties? How locals can’t wait to pick up some of the thousands of permanent, high paying jobs on offer? How developers … Continue reading Farmer Knocks Back ‘Offers’ of $100,000 a Year to Host Turbines & Tells Senate: “These Things Shouldn’t Be In Anyone’s Backyard”
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ARREA Spears Wind Industry’s Parasites During Thumping Senate Appearance
**** The mandatory RET has seen the cost of around $9 billion worth of Renewable Energy Certificates added to retail power prices and recovered from all Australian power consumers. Under the Large-Scale Renewable Energy Target, a further $45 billion is designed to be transferred from power consumers to wind power outfits via the REC Tax/Subsidy … Continue reading ARREA Spears Wind Industry’s Parasites During Thumping Senate Appearance
Global Investment Collapses: Investors Wake Up to the Wind Power Delusion
*** The wind industry is in meltdown around the globe, simply because investors have woken up to the monumental RISKS. Risks like: - turbines falling apart in less than 2 years; under pressure from voters, governments pulling the plug on the massive subsidies essential to keep the scam rolling; neighbours suing the operators to obtain … Continue reading Global Investment Collapses: Investors Wake Up to the Wind Power Delusion
Wind Turbines: The Evil Seed
They came in like a soft silent breeze Hushing the naïve Speaking with forked tongues Proclaiming black is green Maiming thinkers with corrupt words Casting a thick cloud of concern Residing with hidden evils Leaving a trail of trash Forever scarred The stench you see Smells of decay What appears above and below is a … Continue reading Wind Turbines: The Evil Seed
Larry Pickering: on the Quixotic Calamity of Wind
*** Larry Pickering is a four-time Walkley Award winning political commentator and Churchill Fellow, whose life's work has been irritating the loopy-left. Here he is slaying the great wind power fraud. It's more than a Quixotic Calamity Larry Pickering The Pickering Post 20 June 2015 **** The European Renewable Energy Foundation, a Green body supportive … Continue reading Larry Pickering: on the Quixotic Calamity of Wind
Hepburn Wind: Community Wind Farm ‘Helps’ Wombats with Other Peoples’ Money
**** Anyone that's looking to make a small fortune, need only hand a very large one to a community wind farm operator: More Wind Power Outfits Go Bust: “Farmer-Investors” Lose their Shirts in the US Community Wind Farm Investors Losing their Shirts Part of their pitch (some might call it laying bait for the more … Continue reading Hepburn Wind: Community Wind Farm ‘Helps’ Wombats with Other Peoples’ Money
Curt Devlin: Details a Decade of Turbine Torture
**** Curt Devlin hales from Fairhaven, Massachusetts U.S.A. He was formerly a Teaching Fellow in the Philosophy Department at Tulane University. He revved up against the great wind power fraud back in 2007, when a wind power outfit set out to spear a clutch of giant fans into the undisturbed and ecologically sensitive salt marshes … Continue reading Curt Devlin: Details a Decade of Turbine Torture
Too Hot? Too Cold? Then Don’t Expect Wind Power to Help
**** What STT followers get in a heartbeat is the lunacy attached to reliance on a wholly weather dependent power 'system' - and we use that term in the wildest possible sense: power generation that only bursts into life with thumping breezes and disappears when things drop back to a zephyr can't sensibly be called … Continue reading Too Hot? Too Cold? Then Don’t Expect Wind Power to Help
German’s Top Daily – Bild – says Time to Chop Massive Subsidies for Wind Power
**** 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 German’s Top Daily – Bild – says Time to Chop Massive Subsidies for Wind Power
Today Tonight Reports on Senate Inquiry Into the Great Wind Power Fraud
**** The Australian Senate Inquiry into the great wind power fraud kicked off on 30 March. And, fitting it was, that this band of merry men – Queensland National Senator, Matthew Canavan, WA Liberal, Chris Back, independents Nick Xenophon and John Madigan, Liberal Democrat, David Leyonhjelm, Family First Senator, Bob Day (and one, not-so-happy, Labor … Continue reading Today Tonight Reports on Senate Inquiry Into the Great Wind Power Fraud