Lawmakers in Texas have blocked a Chinese billionaire’s push to build a 15,000-acre wind farm on a large swath of land he purchased after news of his plans drew the attention of a conservancy group.
The Biden administration announced Tuesday that it was opening the California coast to offshore wind farms, after the Pentagon suddenly dropped objections that wind farms would interfere with military operations along the Pacific coastline.
The United Kingdom has reportedly been sending millions of pounds sterling to the communist Chinese state in foreign aid, subsidising one of the world’s largest economies as well as one of the most totalitarian regimes on Earth.
Last week, millions of pounds in “constraint payments” were paid to wind energy farms to not run their turbines.
China is on the verge of unleashing an energy revolution which will destroy pretty much forever the green argument that “we are running out of fossil fuel.”
Anyone who doubts that President-elect Donald Trump means business on slaying the “Green Blob” really needs to look at the guy he has just appointed to head the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
Living near wind turbines can cause stress, anxiety and sleep loss, a government report has admitted. The report, commissioned by the former Department for Energy and Climate Change last year, found a “clear link” between the amount of noise emitted
Campaigners in Scotland are calling for a full, independent investigation into allegations that wind farms are contaminating water supplies across large areas of Scotland. They have written to the First Minister Nicola Sturgeon and Energy Secretary Amber Rudd calling for
If just reading the words ‘wind turbines’ makes you feel physically sick then spare a thought for the people who have had them thrust into their lives. A new report shows living near a wind turbine may harm emotional wellbeing after
In a move that could effectively end the building of new onshore wind farms in Britain, Energy Secretary Amber Rudd has announced that no new wind farms will be given the go-ahead without the permission of local communities. She has also promised
So the new government’s battle lines are drawn – between the True Tories and the Continuation Cameron squishes. And already the Continuation Cameron squish camp has fired its first salvo, in the form of this outrageous provocation, on the subject
The future of Germany’s base load power supply is now in doubt as non-renewable energy sources cannot compete against subsidies, Reuters reports. German energy industry association BDEW has stated that the planned new-build coal and gas fired power stations are
Thousands of mega-wind turbines more than double the height of Big Ben could be set up across Britain if the wind power industry gets its way. A “cost reduction task force” has argued that constructing more mega-turbines would bring down
The Scottish government is riding roughshod over planning regulations and scientific evidence by pursuing plans to “build a huge wind farm” across Scotland, Kate Mavor, the outgoing chief executive of the National Trust for Scotland has said. She criticised the
Energy Secretary Ed Davey handed out more than £4 billion in lucrative subsidies to renewable energy companies yesterday, but industry lobbyists and green campaigners have insisted that the sum still isn’t enough. Meanwhile, Conservative Parliamentarians have reacted furiously to news that
The go-ahead has been given for the world’s biggest offshore wind farm to be built just 80 miles off the Yorkshire coast. The scheme will see 400 turbines spaced over 430 square miles and will cost taxpayers £10.5 billion in subsidies,
A 328ft tall wind turbine has mysteriously collapsed at a wind farm in Northern Ireland, despite wind speeds not being more than a medium 10 to 12 metres per second (22 to 27 miles per hour). The wind farm, home
As Britain shivers under a blanket of snow and ice, it has emerged that offshore windfarms have been idling to prevent icing up – and drawing electricity off the national grid to do so. Critics have pointed out the “folly”
