Mortlake South wind farm is a nuisance case waiting to happen

7th May 2022

Via Wind Farm Living

Noise Matters: Wind Farms, Nuisance and the Law

4th May 2022

by Binoy Kampmark, World News, International Policy digest

Source: https://intpolicydigest.org/noise-matters-wind-farms-nuisance-and-the-law/

For years, the Australian wind farm has been reviled as ugly, noisy, and unendearing by a certain number of prominent figures. Former Prime Minister Tony Abbott pathologized them, calling wind turbines the “dark satanic mills of the modern era,” being not merely aesthetically problematic but damaging to health.

The latter view has been rejected by the National Health and Medical Research Council, which found “no consistent evidence that wind farms cause adverse health effects in humans” though it accepted at the time “that further high-quality research on the possible health effects of wind farms is required.” Literature examining the nature of wind farm complaints also notes “large historical and geographical differences in the distribution of complainants in Australia.”

Current Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce is another figure who never misses a…

Europe is paying the price for its suicidal obsession with chaotically intermittent wind and solar. The power pricing and supply calamity that’s hit Germany and others was as perfectly predictable as it was perfectly avoidable.

Power prices are out of control and weather-driven power rationing is the new normal.

The Germans once had heroic plans to kill off all of their nuclear and coal-fired power plants, but that was before Vlad Putin stormed into Ukraine and drew focus on just how reliant Germany is on Russian oil and gas.

Plans to mothball nuclear and coal-fired plants have been quietly shelved, and reliability and security of supply is all the rage.

Because the reality doesn’t fit the narrative, the mainstream media has largely ignored Europe’s self-inflicted energy crisis.

But, as Dr Benny Peiser points out below, Europe’s experience offers an opportunity to avoid the perfectly avoidable crisis that comes with an…

By Julia Dandoy ~

News of the potential downfall of Roe v. Wade has prompted wailing and gnashing of teeth from the pro-abortion left. Though it might appear strange to deem a political party that proclaims empathy and equality as its highest virtues “misanthropic,” there is nothing that suggests a hatred of mankind quite like the practice and promotion of abortion.

Calling people who proclaim empathy and equality as their highest virtues “misanthropic”? Well, nothing suggests hatred of mankind quite like the promotion of abortion. Pictured: Pro-abortion activists march in Boston during a protest over the leaked Supreme Court draft decision suggesting the justices are poised to overturn Roe v. Wade. May 3, 2022. (Photo: Erin Clark, The Boston Globe/Getty Images)

Politico broke the story earlier this week that it had obtained a draft of the Supreme Court’s majority ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization via an anonymous…

By Larry Bell ~