“Over the past decades, national and supranational governments have amply incentivised wind farm power production. In this paper, we reconstruct investments in the wind sector over twenty years of national support schemes in Italy, and we uncover unintended consequences of wind incentives exploited by criminal organization groups. We show that Italian mafia-exposed municipalities register … [Read more…]
“Wind and solar energy are both essentially obsolete technologies. There is a reason why only the very rich or the very adventurous sail across oceans: the wind is unreliable, and at best produces relatively little energy. Nevertheless, liberals have concocted fantasies whereby all of our electricity, or perhaps our entire economy, will be powered … [Read more…]
“Some of them thought they were enrolling in a free government program to make their homes more energy-efficient. Others were promised the energy savings from their renovations would quickly offset the cost, only to end up with solar panels that didn’t work or were too few in number to make much of a difference. … [Read more…]
“Sept 22, 2020. Chautauqua County NY. Cassadaga Wind project filmed mostly from September 1 to September 21, 2020 at Cassadaga Wind construction sites in towns of Charlotte and Cherry Creek and at the base of operations on Rt 60 south of Cassadaga. Industrial wind is foisted on rural communities with the promise of local … [Read more…]
“Two men, who fraudulently sold solar panels to vulnerable people, have been ordered to pay confiscation totaling £413,206.10. Stephen Wilson and Robert Ross obtained millions of pounds from 760 victims as part of the Solar Energy Savings scam. They used deceitful sales techniques and false guarantees of reimbursement to sell solar panels, and specifically … [Read more…]
“The usual suspects had predictable reactions this week after a federal trial jury convicted three upstate real-estate developers and the State University’s onetime nanotech czar, Alain Kaloyeros, on charges of bid-rigging tied to Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s upstate economic-development projects. Cuomo’s harshest critics jumped on the verdict in the Buffalo Billion case as further evidence … [Read more…]
“The Mantria Corporation Ponzi scheme has been described as the “biggest green energy scam” in United States history.[1] A Federal judge in the Securities and Exchange Commission’s civil case found Mantria had scammed more than $54.5 million “by egregiously, recklessly, knowingly, and shamelessly perpetrating a fraudulent scheme” that used “misrepresentations, omissions, and blatant lies … [Read more…]