Dirty Rotten Scoundrels: American Wind Industry Caught Faking Community ‘Support’ for Wind Power

All politics, all the time – and thousands of dead birds and bats – and ruined rural serenity and sleep.

STOP THESE THINGS

The wind industry was founded on myth, is built on lies and runs on a mix of subsidies and propaganda.

And, it should never be forgotten that, the greatest economic and environmental fraud of all time, was only made possible by our political betters.

Armed with the belief (not unjustified) that you can fool most of the people, most of the time, politicians run the same nonsensical lines as the rent-seekers, who critically depend upon them for endless subsidies, mandated targets, tax credits, soft loans and corrupt planning rules and regulations. It’s a match made in heaven.

Then there’s the need to pretend that wind power has broad and lasting community support.

In its efforts to ‘win hearts and minds’ in increasingly switched-on and cynical rural communities, the wind industry is utterly shameless.

Sham surveys, phoney consultations and barefaced lying are all par for the course.

Struggling to conjure up…

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