News Round-Up
26 July 2024
Government Has Just Declared War on Free Speech
26 July 2024
by Toby Young
Germany has begun felling up to 120,000 trees from the 'fairy tale' forest of Reinhardswald – setting of many Brothers Grimm tales – to make way for wind turbines. But not a peep in protest comes from the Greens.
A wind turbine in Wales has exploded after bursting into flames. The Fire Service said that "pieces of the wind turbine were falling nearby".
The revelation that the U.K.'s ambitious climate target is based on just one unusually windy year's data threatens to unravel the credibility of the whole Net Zero project.
Government subsidies for wind power hit a record £255 million in December, confirming that renewables are not and never have been cheap, says David Turver. And they look set to increase further.
Australia is the latest country to buy in to the 'clean energy superpower' myth, says David Craig. In reality, it's cheap, reliable fossil fuel that enables countries like China and India to be manufacturing superpowers.
SNP ministers have quietly downgraded their claim that Scotland has a quarter of Europe’s offshore wind potential to just 7%, in a major blow to their economic case for independence.
The wind energy crisis deepens as Danish company Ørsted cancels major U.S. projects in the face of rising public opposition, evidence of harm to whales and collapsing economic viability.
"Living off-grid has shown me that anyone who thinks modern society can function on a power grid that runs on just solar and wind power without 100% backup capacity for cloudy, still days is totally deluded."
Politicians repeatedly reassure the public that wind power is cheaper than gas, but these misleading claims ignore the true costs of trying to run a modern electricity grid on the back of unreliable weather.
Further devastating evidence of the toll that onshore wind turbines take on local eagle populations has emerged in Tasmania, writes Chris Morrison.
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