A Bright, Shining Green Lie

The following was written about the US, however there are many similarities with the Australian Government’s Home Insulation Program farce.
Ed.

A Bright, Shining Green Lie

Home weatherization has neither created many jobs nor weatherized many homes

A year ago, President Barack Obama peered into our economic future and saw foam sealant and weatherstripping. In the midst of a punishing recession, Obama would wield that incomparable jobs-creating tool, the caulk gun. What the Works Progress Administration was to Franklin Roosevelt, the government-funded weatherization of homes would be to Obama.
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What both Obama and the British Conservatives don’t want you to know about green jobs and green energy

What both Obama and the British Conservatives don’t want you to know about green jobs and green energy

Green jobs are a waste of space, a waste of money, a lie, a chimera. You know that. I know that. We’re familiar with the report by Dr Gabriel Calzada Alvarez of the Rey Juan Carlos University in Spain which shows that for every “green job” that is created another 2.2 jobs are LOST in the real economy.
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The philosophy of climate change

The philosophy of climate change

Still incoherent. Specific events and the short term matter when it suits Warmists but not otherwise

In my previous column, we saw that defenders of Global Warming are trying to have it both ways when it comes to finding confirmations of their theory. They appeal to opposite sorts of natural phenomena as confirming evidence: Lack of snow in Vancouver, receding glaciers and recent milder winters on the one hand and this year’s record-setting snows on the other.
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Some nutty biologists pontificate on climate

Some nutty biologists pontificate on climate

Some comments below from physicist Lubos Motl

Some people seem to be unwilling to accept that the era of the global warming panic that couldn’t even be questioned is over.

In 1967, Paul Ehrlich predicted that hundreds of millions of people would starve to death in the 1970s and 1980s. Later, he updated his prediction and argued that most of the U.S. population would starve to death before 2000. His whole career has been built on making absolutely preposterous statements of this kind.
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Treason Is A Matter Of Dates

Treason Is A Matter Of Dates

This observation, famously made by Talleyrand at the Congress of Vienna as the powers debated the fate of the turncoat King of Saxony, reminded the crowned heads of Europe that all of them had at one time or another worked with Napoleon. Talleyrand himself had served the emperor as foreign minister and trusted ally before switching to the other side as Napoleon’s power waned — and his megalomania grew.
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Wind Farms = Cash for Clunkers

In the US during the Global Financial Crisis, Pres. Obama introduced his famous “Cash for Clunkers” program.

This brilliant piece of financial waste provided owners of “clunkers” (old cars) with monetary incentives to trade-in their vehicles on new “efficient” ones.

As with many such “environmentally friendly”  schemes it was a failure.

Here’s why:

A 15 mpg clunker that travels 12,000 miles a year uses 800
gallons of gas a year.

A 25 mpg vehicle that travels 12,000 miles a year uses 480
gallons a year.

So, the average Cash for Clunkers transaction will reduce
US gasoline consumption by 320 gallons per year.

They claim 700,000 clunkers were turned-in, so that’s 224
million gallons saved per year..

That equates to a bit over 5 million barrels of oil.

5 million barrels is about 5 hours worth of US consumption.

More importantly, 5 million barrels of oil at $70 per
barrel costs about $350 million dollars.

So, the government paid $3 billion tax dollars to
save $350 million.

They spent $8.57 for every dollar we saved.

Wind farms are somewhat similar. Con the public into believing they will save money and the environment and garner support.

Just like the Cash for Clunkers program however, wind farms ultimately save nothing – especially the environment – and will cost you vast sums in the future through increased power charges.

Think about it.

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Energy Suicide: Unplugging America

Energy Suicide: Unplugging America

By Alan Caruba

What was that most homeowners and apartment dwellers most feared in the recent record-breaking blizzard that hit the northeast? The answer is losing electricity and that is why the news of the event was always filled with reports of what towns had lost electricity due to downed tree limbs. This was followed by news of how quickly the utilities were making repairs.
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Bali-Hoo: U.N Still Pushing for Global Environmental Control

Bali-Hoo: U.N Still Pushing for Global Environmental Control

Despite the debacle of the failed Copenhagen climate change conference last December, the United Nations is pressing full speed ahead with a plan for a greatly expanded system of global environmental governance and for a multitrillion-dollar economic transfer scheme to ignite the creation of a “global green economy.” In other words: Copenhagen without the authority — yet — of Copenhagen.
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Australia: Police may lay charges over fatal results of rushed Greenie scheme

Australia: Police may lay charges over fatal results of rushed Greenie scheme

Peter “The Skull” Garrett should be in the dock too. He is the responsible Federal environment minister who seemed not to know his a*s from his elbow and basically seems to have supervised nothing in his portfolio

THE Federal Government’s home insulation debacle took another twist yesterday with police confirming criminal charges could be laid over the three Queensland deaths. Detectives have been interviewing witnesses and gathering forensic evidence in all three cases, which occurred between October 2009 and February this year.
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Global warming plan could leave humans extinct

Humans extinct? We thought that’s what radical greens wanted!
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Global warming plan could leave humans extinct

Forget climate change — the real threat to the planet and all of us riding on it comes from screwball scientists and their schemes to “save” us from nonexistent threats. The latest plot sounds like it might have been hatched by a Bond villain: a series of simulated volcanic explosions to fill the atmosphere with a manmade chemical sunblock that would shield the entire planet.
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IPCC Science Designed For Propaganda

The world has known the IPCC was crooked for years. A further alarming fact is that Australia’s meglomaniac P.M. Kevin Rudd desperately wants to be Secretary General of the U.N.
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IPCC Science Designed For Propaganda

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change was specifically designed by Maurice Strong as a political vehicle to further his objective of crippling the industrial nations

Scientists at the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) built a dam to contain a lake full of dirty water. Someone behind the dam drilled a hole and sprang a leak. The flow is small but growing and the color of the water gets dirtier and dirtier and the size of the hole will increase as the extent of the corruption expands. Now a second major leak has developed in a different area as people dig through the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Reports. The structure of the organization made this almost inevitable. However, the structure was necessary to achieve the political rather than a scientific goal.
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EDITORIAL: What Freedom of Speech?

Mortlake is a small country town in Victoria, Australia, located about 218km west from Melbourne and 50km north-east of the city of Warrnambool.

Mortalke’s an interesting place. The Kuurn Kopan Noot Aborigines are thought to have occupied the area before European settlement. Major Thomas Mitchell sighted the district in 1836 during his Australia Felix expedition and the Derwent Company, which succeeded the Port Phillip Association, established the Mount Shadwell station here in 1839.

There’s a great deal of history attached to Mortlake and surrounding areas. Like many similar towns in Australia, the locals are a resilient lot and don’t mind a bit of hard work to make an honest dollar.

Mortlake is a nice place to live and work, at least it was until the arrival of Acciona.

Acciona is an overseas-owned  “renewable energy” company. Some say “renewable energy company” is another term for an organisation that makes millions from government subsidies and resident’s misery; you may make your own mind up on that score.

Acciona wants to plant a 96 turbine wind farm at the south and east of Mortlake, and needless to say some Mortlake residents object.

Now you’d think that non-violent objection was the right of every Australian, wouldn’t you. After all, we seem to have an “objection” – by Greenpeace (who don’t appear too peaceful at times), Friends of the Earth, WWF, The Watermelon Party, er sorry – The Greens and any number of heavily government-funded “environmental” groups, all of which claim to be “not-for-profit” but strangely have very healthy bank accounts – virtually every day.

Of course it’s only OK to object provided you are objecting right along WITH a green group; if you object AGAINST them, well, that’s not OK, or so Hamish Cumming of Mortlake has discovered.

Hamish is one of those honest, hard-working Aussie blokes who obviously believes a man is entitled to stand up for his rights and voice his opinion on matters.

Hamish has voiced his opinion on the proposed Acciona Mortlake wind farm.

A few days ago some haystacks and woolsheds (one with historic significance) on Hamish’s property at nearby Darlington were burned down.

At this point RGW points out there is no suggestion or inference that any individual or organisation is responsible for the apparent act of arson. Undoubtedly readers will use their own powers of adding two-plus-two in order to reach their own conclusions.

Hamish has been a frequent objector to wind farms for some time, and as such is no doubt regarded as a thorn in the side of wind farm proponents, developers and Victoria’s wind farm-crazy Minister for Planning, Justin Madden, who made an infinitely better footballer than he is a planning minister.

This type of reaction to honest objection demonstrates the type of people one is dealing with when it comes to wind farm projects.

For wind farm developers, turbine manufacturers, governments and those “not-for-profit” so-called environmental groups, wind farms (or even the small wind “parks”) can mean big dollars. Very big dollars.

For local residents and land owners it can mean loss of amenity, health issues and depreciation of their land value plus loss of lifestyle.

Hamish Cumming is not alone in receiving threats (and now violent action) because of his legal stance against wind farms. Some time ago a proposed public meeting of concerned residents of Smeaton in Victoria was canceled when a bomb threat was received. Acciona is also the developer of the Waubra wind farm near Smeaton. RGW again points out no inferences are made.

The incidents do suggest however that some person or persons unknown will go to great lengths and engage in illegal and violent actions simply because they perceive an individual’s or group’s actions as a threat to their money-making, lifestyle and environment-damaging developments.

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Noise complaints about one in six wind farms

Noise complaints about one in six wind farms

The cottages around Askam wind farm occupy the perfect spot, looking out to sea over to the isle of Man and inland to the Lake District. The only problem is the noise.

Noise complaints about one in six wind farms: Barry Moon and Gill  Haythornthwaite's home in the Cumbrian fells on the outskirts of the  village of Askam in Furness

Barry Moon and Gill Haythornthwaite’s home in the Cumbrian fells on the outskirts of the village of Askam in Furness Photo: NNP

Noise complaints about one in six wind farms: Barry Moon and Gill  Haythornthwaite

Barry Moon and Gill Haythornthwaite Photo: NNP

The seven turbines have sparked the most complaints about wind farms in the country. Residents complain of a noise like someone is “mixing cement in the sky” or a “clog is stuck in the tumble dryer” and they are not the only ones.

New figures reveal that at least one in six wind farms have had complaints about noise causing a lack of sleep or just been “dreadfully irritating”.
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Audit the Ontario government’s green programs

Audit the Ontario government’s green programs, says Trebilcock-Wilson report for Energy Probe

Energy Probe
5 Mar 2010

Ontario’s strategy of picking winners likely to fail

Ontario’s provincial auditor or other independent groups should periodically audit the programs and subsidies being offered through the recently passed Green Energy Act to ensure the programs are producing the promised environmental and economic benefits, says an Energy Probe report published today by Michael Trebilcock, Professor of Law and Economics at the University of Toronto, and James Wilson, a recent University of Toronto Law School Graduate.

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Engineers cave in to green pressure

Wind power the worst kind of mirage

Engineers cave in to green pressure, thanks to politically driven funding

By Henk Tennekes

Wind energy is an engineer’s nightmare. To begin with, the energy density of flowing air is miserably low. Therefore, you need a massive contraption to catch one megawatt at best, and a thousand of these to equal a single gas- or coal-fired power plant.

If you design them for a wind speed of 34 miles per hour, they are useless at  wind speeds below 22 mph and extremely dangerous at 44 mph, unless feathered in time. Remember, power is proportional to the cube of the wind speed. Old-fashioned Dutch windmills needed a two-man crew on 12-hour watch, seven days a week, because a runaway windmill first burnt its bearings, then its hardwood gears, then the entire superstructure. Continue reading

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