“LOOK at them. Windmills, hundreds of them, as far as the eye can see,” commented a British visitor to Spain, who stopped on the side of a freeway to record the sight on his phone camera.
What also startled the UK visitor was that none of them appeared to be working. “I don’t understand this any more. None of this seems to make business sense or common sense. This is utterly insane what we’re doing to the planet … Call me old-fashioned, call me a conspiracy theorist, but this ain’t right at all. Another ponzi scheme.”
The sudden and total collapse of Spain’s renewable energy grid this week brought to light the reality of so-called renewable energy. Spanish politicians were bragging only a few weeks earlier that the country had achieved its “first weekday of 100% renewable power on the national grid”.
The UK man’s last comment was closer to the truth than he perhaps knew. Academics at the University of Guelph in Canada have researched the wind farm phenomenon and are saying almost exactly that: Wind turbines run on subsidies, not wind, and enrich wind farm corporates and while impoverishing taxpayers, says Economics Professor Ross McKitrick.
“All the arguments they put foward for the Green Energy Act (Canada) really turned out to be phony once we looked at them closely,” he said. McKitrick said wind turbines produced power that cost 13.5c a kilowatt-hour to generate, while traditional sources cost 3.5c kWh, which simply raises costs for the productive economy.
“Nobody was building wind turbines in Ontario until the government started throwing money at it. It is not a profitable source of electricity, it is not cost-effective. Wind turbines can’t compete on the wholesale market without a lot of government support.”
Cairns News is aware that the Australian federal government massively subsidizes wind turbines. A former federal Liberal Party staffer from Western Australia said the subsidies ranged from around $600,000 per turbine, while the Institute for Public Affairs says that in 2024, through the Large-scale Renewable Energy Target (LRET) subsidy scheme, a total of $1.04 billion was transferred from electricity consumers to the largest 50 wind farms operating in Australia.
This is the same scam outlined by Professor McKitrick: Multinational wind energy companies raking in billions of dollars from so-called renewable energy schemes globally – based on years of agitation by naive, but well-organised environmentalists pushing the anti-carbon narrative.
McKitrick’s findings have been made public in a documentary called Down Wind, produced by Surge Media.
“Progressive” governments in the UK, Canada, the US, Australia and Europe, influenced by Green parties, have had a long-running infatuation with so-called renewable energy, apparently ostensibly because they believe they have some sort of score to settle with “big oil” and “big coal”.
Instead they’ve been duped by “Big Green”, a trillion-dollar-a-year business destroying western nations’ power generation capacity. China, the major supplier of all this “green” technology with more than 1100 coal-fired power stations, must be laughing.
