Joanne Kermond: a victim of Bill Shorten’s wind industry mates.

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Australia’s Labor Party – once, justifiably, called the worker’s party – has long since ceased being a voice for anything other than the corrupt bosses of the unions that fund it – via the $billions siphoned through Union Super Funds, like IFM Investors. IFM Investors is the outfit that used to own Pacific Hydro, a wind power outfit that lost $700 million of mum and dad retirement savings in a single year:

Pacific Hydro’s Ponzi Scheme Implodes: Wind Power Outfit Loses $700 Million of Mum & Dad Retirement Savings

Pacific Hydro (for the time being) owns the Cape Bridgewater wind farm disaster, which has been driving its neighbours nuts and/or out of their homes, due to incessant turbine generated low-frequency noise and infrasound, for well over 6 years.

Among its victims are Brian and Joanne Kermond, and their family.

There’s only a ‘contest’ if you enter the ring.

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As the spruikers selling tickets in a lottery tell us: “you’ve got to be in it, to win it”.

And so it is with killing off the greatest economic and environmental fraud of all time.

‘Fighters’ have a remarkable tendency to win. Those that don’t, tend to get steam-rolled, at about the same rate.

Thankfully, communities all over the world are picking the former – front-foot-approach, with success after brilliant success being won. Here’s another one from Britain.

Firm shelves plans for controversial windfarm
Telegraph & Argus
Rob Lowson
7 September 2015

A DEVELOPER has “shelved” its plans to build a controversial wind farm on moorland overlooking Bronte country in the Bradford district.

The Banks Group first revealed plans to construct up to six turbines, some measuring up to 125m, on Thornton Moor, near Denholme, in 2010.

The project has…

Unlike the wind, something you can set your watch by.

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STT has been pointing out for sometime now, the fact that Australia’s big 3 power retailers have been refusing to ‘play ball’ with beleaguered wind power cowboys, like near-bankrupt, Infigen and the union super fund backed disaster, Pacific Hydro.

Commercial retailers have not entered any power purchase agreements with wind power outfits, since about November 2012; and have made it very clear that they have no intention of doing so, any time soon.

Their renewables-recalcitrance is not, however, some kind of amorphous syndrome: it’s specifically a case of ‘wind’. Capturing a few of the Sun’s rays is still, apparently, on the retailer’s radar, as this article from The Australian points out.

Energy boss Grant King tips solar explosion
The Australian
Shane Rodgers
10 September 2015

Origin Energy boss Grant King says the only way the emission targets could…

Navitus Bay wind farm refused permission by government
BBC News
11 September 2015

A proposed wind farm off the south coast of England has been refused consent by the government.

Developers behind the Navitus Bay project – for up to 121 turbines off Dorset, Hampshire and the Isle of Wight – say it would have provided electricity for up to 700,000 homes.

Opponents said it would damage tourism and was too close to protected coasts.

It is only the second time the Department of Energy and Climate Change has rejected an offshore project.

The £3.5bn Navitus Bay plan, developed jointly by Dutch firm Eneco and French giant EDF Energy A, would have seen up to 121 8MW turbines at 200m (656ft) high constructed.

The Planning Inspectorate spent six months studying the plans, which developers said would contribute £1.6bn to the UK’s economy over 25 years.

MHI Vestas Offshore Wind would…

Spaniards line up to ‘enjoy’ their promised wind power ‘job bonanza’.

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One “justification” put up by the wind industry and its parasites for the social and economic chaos caused by spiralling power costs, community division and outrage – is the laboured-claim that investment in wind power would create a “new” economy, with millions of groovy “green” jobs for all.

No better case study to debunk that myth than Germany, which went into wind power harder and faster than anyone else: 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 purpose of the policy – CO2 emissions are rising fast (see our post here).

True it was that Germany saw an increase in renewables related employment – the bulk of it in the development and manufacture of solar panels –…