The Irish High Court has just handed down a decision holding German wind turbine manufacturer, Enercon liable in noise nuisance in a claim pursued by 7 families whose lives and livelihoods have been thoroughly and mercilessly destroyed by incessant turbine generated low-frequency noise and infrasound.

A report on the decision follows below, but first we’ll start where it all started back in 2013.

Families bid to sue wind farm operator
Irish Examiner
Michael Clifford
19 March 2013
By Michael Clifford

A group of families in a north Cork village are suing a wind farm operator in a landmark case, claiming the huge turbines are adversely affecting their health.

The seven families from Banteer claim they have been severely impacted, particularly through noise pollution, since the turbines began operating in Nov 2011.

If the action is successful, it is expected to lead to a number of others on similar grounds. Already…

It’s a little like watching the same train wreck, over and over again. South Australia’s power pricing and supply calamity is something that STT has been predicting for years.

Now that the disaster has been realised, mainstream media are all over it like a tropical rash.

In South Australia there is a pervasive sense of helplessness, blended with barely concealed rage at the morally bankrupt idiots the pretend to govern the economically battered State.

That a full-scale revolution has yet to occur in South Australia is probably down the observation made by the late, great STT Champion, Alby Schultz, that:

“The only reason people are not rioting in the streets about the unjustified increase in their power bills is that they simply have no idea what is going on.”

That prescient little vignette was delivered by Alby in the Federal Parliament in February 2013, when he was the Liberal…

STT has been slogging away on this battleground for nearly 4 years now. At times we’ve felt like a lone sniper taking on a German Panzer division.

The dim-witted arts grads that double as ‘journalists’ in this country either actively joined with the wind cult in worshipping these things and crushing all those who had the temerity to point out the one or two minor flaws inherent in a power source that was abandoned centuries ago, for pretty obvious reasons (see above). Or, they stood slack-jawed on the sidelines and said nothing about a wholly predictable economic and social calamity – so much for the fourth estate.

All it took was a couple of Statewide blackouts – in what has hitherto been glowingly referred to by wind worshippers as “Australia’s wind power capital” – that followed total and totally unpredictable collapses in wind power output, and a doubling of power…

Germany Aims To “Throttle” Wind Energy To Avert Grid Overloading …Branch In Uncertainty
No Tricks Zone
Pierre Gosselin
23 November 2016

Germany’s national business daily Wirtschaftswoche here reports that the country’s Economic Minister/Vice Chancellor Sigmar Gabriel aims implement a plan that will throttle the expansion of north Germany’s onshore wind parks — due to the fact that rapid building is “overloading the power grid”.

This will impact the northern states of Schleswig Holstein, Mecklenburg Western Pomerania and northern Lower Saxony.

Wirtschaftswoche writes that the planned scale-back will profoundly hit the three northern states because they will receive support for only 902 megawatts of power capacity each year– far below the 1300 MW installed just in Schleswig-Holstein in 2014.

This limitation will be a major blow to the German wind industry, which is already reeling from uncertainty in the branch.

The measure is part of this year’s reforms to the German…

Donald Trump has declared ‘war’ even before his 20 January Inauguration.

No, it’s not a pending nuclear conflagration that’s in the offing; just the end of the wind industry as the world has known and grown to suffer it.

Trump Says He’s ‘Personally Offended’ By ‘Awful’ Wind Turbines
The Daily Caller
Andrew Follett
23 November 2016

U.S. President-elect Donald Trump told British politicians he hates “awful” wind turbines in Scotland because he believes they “sully” the country’s beauty, according to BBC News.

Trump allegedly told Nigel Farage and Andy Wigmore, both of whom were leaders of the Brexit movement, that he’s “personally offended” by wind turbines.

“He has got a bugbear – he doesn’t like wind farms at all,” Wigmore told BBC News. Trump allegedly told him “when I look out of my window and I see these windmills, it offends me. You’ve got to do something about these windmills…

Nyrstar’s Port Pirie Smelter & 800 jobs about to be blown away…

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Insanity is a term that doesn’t even come close to capturing the mania that has gripped South Australia in the last few months. Its hapless Labor government refused to cut a deal to keep Alinta’s Port Augusta power plants up and running and, since their closure in May this year, South Australia has suffered rocketing power prices, routine load shedding and several statewide blackouts (the last on the first day of summer).

In a State with the worst unemployment in the Nation by a whopping margin, its long-suffering citizens are being led into a social and economic disaster unparalleled in Australian history. Some call SA the “canary in the coal mine”, while others talk about the “South Australian wind power experiment”, as if the place was in the outer reaches of the cosmos.

Meanwhile, back on terra…

After what, for now, can be referred to as South Australia’s most recent mass blackout, Adelaide’s The Advertiser has finally woken up to the fact that the South Australian obsession with wind power has placed the economically battered State in a category alongside North Korea, sub-Saharan Africa and Cuba.

With the passing of Cuba’s long-time tormentor, Fidel Castro, STT couldn’t help but note that Castro was able to reliably guarantee Cubans would receive power every day (albeit for a single measly hour), something that South Australia’s vapid Premier, Jay Weatherill has no hope of matching this summer.

Here is a run of articles that spell out just exactly what a disaster South Australia’s wind power experiment has become.

Totally Powerless: Alarm Rises at Bushfire and Job Risk
The Advertiser
Cameron England & Paul Starick
2 December 2016

Biggest employer’s shock job warning on SA electricity crisis & Labor concedes more…