By popular demand – here’s Paul’s Epistle to Australian power punters.

In our last post, Paul Miskelly gave Ian Macfarlane an almighty serve over his apparent sympathy for wind weasels.

We’ve been overwhelmed by the number of hits on – and with the responses to – Paul’s extremely well-crafted challenge to the new Industry Minister.

Here’s the letter that Paul sent to the editor of Acoustics Australia (and Macfarlane) – giving the wind industry’s pet acoustic consultants a solid whack over their (self-justified) failure to go in to bat for rural communities – a failure that STT puts down to their love of filthy wind weasel lucre and their collective contempt for hard-working, rural Australian families.

Letter to the Editor
Paul Miskelly, Mittagong, NSW

Response to article by S. Cooper, “Wind farm noise – an ethical dilemma for the Australian Acoustical Society?”, Acoustics Australia 40(2), 139-142 (2012)

I would…

Judith Curry writes in the Australian:

The Australian reports:

The cause of the Ontario Liberal government’s industrial wind turbine madness

Why, against all that is rational, ethical, and in the best interests of the people, is the Ontario Liberal government continuing to impose thousands more of the useless, destructive, dangerous, costly, un-green, landscape-blighting industrial wind turbines on large swaths of rural Ontario? The premiers McGunity/Wynne apparently did not do their homework on the efficacy of their green ambitions, which have proven to be economically, environmentally and socially ruinous.  And yet Premier Wynne, successor to resigned-in-disgrace McGuinty, is undeterred, charging full blast into further unmitigated disaster, all the while making platitudinous, clichéd promises: ‘My responsibility is to make sure that going forward, we have a better process in place, and that’s what we’re doing.’ It’s a heartless, bullying process of the cruelest sort when you consider the absolute uselessness of it all. All industrial wind…

Letter to the Editor — Lethbridge Herald — September 20, 2013

Re: Alberta lagging in wind power generation, Sept. 14.

The CanWEA and Dave Mabell try hard to perpetuate the myth that wind electricity is good for Albertans and good for the environment. Wind is expensive and inefficient; it does little to reduce carbon dioxide emissions; and wind turbines kill thousands of bats and birds in Alberta annually.

In Alberta, electrical output from wind turbines is just 32 per cent of design capacity, rendering actual production facilities and new transmissions lines inefficient – lines that we pay for with every electricity bill. We have spent billions on wind generation in Alberta and yet wind produces only three per cent of our electrical needs.

But have carbon dioxide emissions been reduced by three per cent? Almost certainly not, because when the wind blows, gas and coal plants still operate. Wind is…

Robert Bryce writes for Bloomberg News: