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 If the green energy plans by the German Federal Government are implemented, the expansion of onshore wind energy will soon come to a standstill and then go into reverse. In early March, German Economy Minister Sigmar Gabriel presented a draft for the amendment of the Renewable Energies Act (EEG). The new rules regulate the subsidy levels for renewable energy. The new regulations are to be adopted in coming months. A study by consultants ERA on behalf of the Green Party’s parliamentary group concludes that under these provisions the development of wind energy will collapse fairly soon. –Frank-Thomas Wenzel, Berliner Zeitung, 7 April 2016 China’s proposed investments |
Report the Harm Caused by Wind Turbines…
The Wind Industry’s Malicious & Unjustified Harm to Public Health
April 8, 2016 by
Wind power is a public health problem
Cape Cod Times
Lilli-Ann Green
7 March 2016
Wind turbine projects have previously been rejected in Wellfleet, Eastham, Orleans, Harwich, Dennis, Brewster, Barnstable and Bourne. Health concerns have been a major issue.
A Superior Court judge, hearing neighbor’ complaints that wind turbine noise constituted an intolerable “nuisance” that was causing “irreparable harm,” issued an injunction to curtail operations.
The “Falmouth experience” is not unique. Residents in at least 21 communities in Massachusetts (and hundreds of locations all over the world) have reported significant health problems as the result of living too close to wind turbines. Those problems include sleep disruption and deprivation, headaches, ear pressure, dizziness, nausea, problems with concentration and memory, fast heart rate, high blood pressure and panic episodes.
In a 2011 peer-reviewed journal article, Harvard-trained epidemiologist Carl Phillips wrote, “There is overwhelming evidence that wind turbines cause serious health problems in nearby residents … at a nontrivial rate. The bulk of the evidence takes the form of thousands of adverse event reports. … The attempts to deny the evidence cannot be seen as honest scientific disagreement, and represent either gross incompetence or intentional bias.”
Ambrose and Rand’s 2011 peer-reviewed journal article, presented at the InterNoise international conference, concluded there was “a strong correlation with wind speed, power output and health symptoms.” Research was conducted at one homeowner’s dream home in Falmouth, which was abandoned after wind turbines became operational nearby and cause health problems.
There is plenty of additional scientific and medical evidence of harm caused by wind turbines globally. This is not a “he said, she said” issue. The health impacts are real, and people report they become worse over time. It’s a dose response.
Affected people report not experiencing symptoms before wind turbines started operating near their home. The symptoms go away when they leave their homes. The conclusion is that wind turbines are causing their problems.
Many people living in the proximity of wind turbines are not informed about the potential health impacts of wind turbines by wind developers. Some people report they don’t start experiencing the symptoms until much after wind turbines begin operating. They don’t connect the symptoms they started to experience with wind turbines nearby, perhaps because of the dose response.
Approximately 13 wind turbines operate on Cape Cod and the Islands where people living nearby (over 1.25 miles away in several cases) have reported health problems.
What steps can one take?
It is important for those affected to report and create a record of the problem with their town health board and with Wind Wise Massachusetts (email lgreen@windwisema.org). Town health boards have the responsibility to residents and their families and to take action if there is a health problem in town.
Certainly most Barnstable County citizens don’t want to directly or indirectly cause harm to others. Furthermore, common sense dictates it shouldn’t be legally proper for one town to approve an industrial machine at its border with another town while knowing there is a potential to harm the health of residents of that town nearby.
The Cape’s state legislators have filed several bills to study health problems, educate health care providers and the public and to help people who have been adversely affected by wind turbines. It would be helpful if readers and local media supported the passage of these bills. Honest and unbiased research is needed so we can understand how to do no harm to people in the proximity of wind turbines by determining how close is too close. Only then could a regional comprehensive energy plan that does not harm the health and safety of people living and working nearby be drafted.
Cape Cod Times
Lili-Ann Green’s evidence to the Australian Senate Inquiry is available here: Lilli-Anne Green – no ‘Green’ Dupe – tells Senate: Wind Farm Health Impacts ‘Universal’
Cleaning Up After the Wind Power Fraud is Done: Local Governments Demanding $Millions from Developers Upfront
A Step in the Right Direction! Hold the Windpushers Accountable!
Cleaning up the mess made in just a few short years …
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Among the sillier claims made by the wind industry, its parasites and spruikers is that these things will run on the smell of an oily rag, for a quarter-of-a-century without needing so much as a shifting spanner.
The rather expensive truth is that, when they’re not bursting into flames, throwing their 10 tonne blades to the four winds or their 290 tonne hulks are being splattered over paddocks and roads, their blades and innards disintegrate within a few short years; requiring wholesale replacements of gearboxes, blades and bearings.
Replacing their internal and external workings comes at an enormous cost, which for the present is (mostly) covered by the phenomenal subsidies filched from taxpayers and/or power consumers. But, as voters and those that they vote for react to spiralling power prices and unstable grids
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Split Asunder: Wind Farms Cause Hatred & Permanent Community Division
Windpushers Destroy & Divide Rural Communities!
After years of being shunned by former friends and neighbours for introducing turbines into their communities (or signing up for that to happen in future), many turbine hosts are keen to wind the clock back and make amends.
Bitter community division, angry former friends and hostile neighbours are just one aspect of what has caused actual and potential turbine hosts to regret their decisions; and, in Australia, encouraged them to present their cases to the Senate Inquiry last year:
While the wind industry, its parasites and…
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How Wind Farm Developers Use Taxpayer Subsidies to Steal Homes & Gag Their Victims
Bribes from the Windweasels….Dancing with the Devil….
It’s OK, the Federal Government pays me to steal them…
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In Australia, the wind industry is designed to be the beneficiary of $3billion a year in subsidies, paid for by a Federal Tax on all power consumers. Here’s some of what it does with that money.
Wind funds used to buy neighbours’ silence
The Australian
Graham Lloyd
29 March 2016
Wind farm developers are offering tens of thousands of dollars in one-off and annual payments to neighbouring properties in a new bid to silence objectors and help break the funding drought for renewable energy investments.
Developers claim the offers are an attempt to combat jealousy between neighbours over personal cash benefits but affected residents claim it is an offer to “share and shut up”.
Landowners who accept the lengthy contracts must agree to allow the wind farm projects to exceed their permit conditions on noise levels, shadow flicker and…
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Stop Debating the Wind Industry & Start Destroying It
Advice on Fighting Windpushers & Windweasels!
In this post we documented over 2,000 Anti-Wind Power Fraud groups operating world-wide, fighting to protect their homes, farms, families and communities from being overrun and destroyed by giant industrial wind turbines.
The battles being waged have a common enemy, but the tactics and strategies employed are diverse – and, unfortunately, in some cases play into the hands of wind power outfits, their advocates and apologists.
In Australia, when the battle to save communities began some years back, the usual response from those opposed to wind farms was along the lines of: “we’re all in favour of renewable energy, so long as wind farms are built in the right place”.
Thankfully, it’s a line rarely heard these days as people switch on to the scale and scope of the great wind power fraud – and open their eyes, for the first time, to the phenomenal cost of the subsidies directed…
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Tasmania’s LRET Inflicted Power Crisis: its 308 MW of Wind Power Capacity Deemed Utterly Worthless
Wind Turbines…. useless!
The boxes are green ….
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Lunatics, like those that people Australia’s Labor Party and the so-called ‘Greens’, continue to delude themselves that, not only is wind power a ‘meaningful’ power generation source, but also that, if we would all simply have faith and ‘believe’, our modern, first world economies could be run entirely upon the whims of the Wind Gods.
South Australia, an economic basket case that took up the ‘faith’ back in 2002, now enjoys the ignominy of having an unstable grid – prone to mass blackouts whenever its wind power output plummets – businesses grappling with another 90% hike in power prices (with worse to come); and a forward spot price of over $90 per MWh, more than double what their neighbours in Victoria will be paying.
Tasmania, half of which is a National Park, with most of the balance devoted to organic berry farms and…
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The Fightin’ Irish are Defending Their Home Turf!
Ireland’s Battle Against Wind Farm Rollout Escalates: Vestas Workers Receive Death Threats
April 2, 2016 by
On the Centenary of the 1916 Easter Uprising – its causes and consequences – soon became the hot topic in Ireland: for the Irish, deliberating and celebrating its underdog status (whether at arms, through its history, or trade) is almost a National pastime.
Underdogs or not, let there be no doubt about it: the Irish know how to fight. And their fighting spirit is no more evident when the threat faced is one to Irish homes and hearts.
True it is that hard-working, decent, rural people throughout the world are fighting back – to obtain sensible energy policies that support growth, development and vibrant, prosperous rural communities – against an industry with all the natural respect for property rights of Genghis Khan; and the moral fibre of Judas Iscariot.
Outfits like struggling Danish turbine maker, Vestas have ridden roughshod over communities across the globe. While Vestas might be able to bully and placate Danes on their home turf (thanks to theinstitutional corruption it conjured up for its own mercenary benefit), the Irish are a different mark. From the tactics employed, it’s clear that the Irish play for keeps.
A while back we covered the story of how a group of (probably) IRA Volunteers put the frighteners on a wind farm developer in Ulster, whose workers quickly responded to the message and fled: Irish Gunmen Raise Arms & Kill Off Threatened Ulster Wind Farm
While that event might have been seen as an aberration, it seems that Irish ‘Volunteers’ have no intention of bowing down to an industry as selfish and vindictive as any distant or internal political tyrant. In that vein, the stakes in terms of freedom from oppression, and autonomy of action, are not so different from what went before during the Irish ‘Troubles’.
With just as much fury and passion, the boys from Fermanagh have delivered a stern message to Vestas & Co: leave or be prepared for a bullet.
Denmark raises issue of death threats at ex-Quinn windfarm
The Independent
Gavin McLoughlin
27 March 2016
The Danish Ambassador to Ireland is set to meet Justice Minister Frances Fitzgerald following the receipt of death threats against workers in Vestas, a Danish company operating a windfarm formerly owned by the Quinn Group.
The meeting between Carsten Sondergaard, the Danish Ambassador, Vestas and the Department of Justice officials is scheduled for Thursday.
Ms Fitzgerald, who is expected to attend the crisis meeting, had already sought a report on the matter, which has seen workers receive three bullets and a threatening letter, warning them to stay away from the Slieve Rushen windfarm.
Vestas told the Sunday Independent that the purpose of the meeting was to raise concerns and discuss possible solutions.
Representatives of Mantlin, which owns the windfarm and whose parent company is Europeaninvestment
firm Platina Partners, will also attend.
Mantlin has said it is very concerned about the message the incidents have been sending out aboutinvestment in Co Fermanagh.
Senior executives at Quinn Industrial Holdings (QIH), the company that bought the old Quinn packaging and building businesses, have also faced threats.
QIH has said the incidents will not “distract us from our drive to ensure that the company continues the strong growth which we have demonstrated”.
Sean Quinn Snr, who formerly led the Quinn Group, and who was appointed as a consultant to QIH in late 2014, has repeatedly spoken out against acts of intimidation in the region.
The Independent
When your entire business ‘model’ is to treat rural people with haughty disdain and merciless contempt, being presented with an ultimatum of the kind delivered in Fermanagh should come as no surprise.
Stop These Things & Stop the Slaughter of Endangered Brolgas
Help save these beautiful birds….sign the Petition!
There are few campaigners who can match Victorian Western District farmer and grazier, Hamish Cumming for courage and sheer determination.
Hamish is a true environmentalist – his love of endangered brolgas and his sterling efforts to prevent them being sliced and diced by these things, has made him a true Victorian legend. Hamish has served it up to Green’s Senator, Richard ‘Die Nasty’ and his wind industry backers – who all seem to think that rank hypocrisy is the new “black” (see our post here).
And – for years – Hamish has been on the war path about endemic, institutional corruption within the Victorian Planning Department and – the grubbiest of them all – the Department of Sustainability and Environment (DSE).
Hamish has uncovered the fact that, in order to help their wind industry ‘mates’ get planning applications over the line, those involved have actively removed data detailing…
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New Regs or Policies? Weigh in on Noise!
Noise Issues Need Far More Attention…
As a result of the series of meetings held with the Wind and Noise Turbine Advisory Group (WNTAG), new regulations, guidelines, or policies may be in the cards. And while the deck has been largely stacked against wind neighbors, this is an opportunity to throw down the aces: include infrasound, set L-90 low, use fast meter settings, recognize amplitude modulation. Play the wild card, too: anticipate wind shear.
Public comments are due April 8, 2016. Send them to the MassDEP’s Deputy Regional Director Laurel Carlson (Laurel.Carlson@state.ma.us) and to the Consensus Building Institute’s Senior Mediator Stacie Smith (stacie@cbuilding.org).
This table shows the relevant slides on potential regulation and guidelines. Click on a slide to view it or access the whole draft at Scope of Possible Noise Regulation and Policy.
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