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Big News owns Earth Hour

by Whaleoil on December 15, 2011

Andrew Bolt blogs about the revelation that Fairfax owns 33% of Earth Hour:

You know all that very flattering coverage that The Age and Sydney Morning Herald gives to Earth Hour?

Don’t you think the papers should have declared that their company doesn’t just support the event, but owns one third of it?

Isn’t this against the journalists’ code of ethics?

And all the while these papers run claims that sceptics are funded by Big Coal. At the very same time Big News is funding the warmists.

Now we know why the media hypes the event so much, it is because they have invested heavily in it. I bet the NZ Herald and other media outlets won’t be hyping it so much now, it is just giving coverage to their competitors.

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  • Mike

    Check out this article in the Canada free press on wind turbines:
    http://www.canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/43172?utm_source=CFP+Mailout&utm_campaign=5c8c1cfa57-Call_to_Champions&utm_medium=email

    One of the great green developments touted were thousands of wind mills,
    sorry, wind turbines, installed in California. Under various state
    governments, generous tax-subsidized handouts were given to
    manufacturers and buyers of such. But now, some 14,000 of such turbines
    are cluttering the landscape of the western US, without producing any
    power whatsoever. Their gear boxes are broken and they just keep on
    flailing without generating anything. (But they still keep shredding any
    bird getting into their path).  As the tax subsidies have disappeared,
    it is not even profitable to repair them any longer, even with the
    existing (and generous) “feed-in” tariffs. Of course, the groups which
    were early in the game and have all left the game since, were the real
    winners. Who cares about any electricity actually being produced?

  • insider

    Windmills are notoriously tough on their gearboxes. It’s to do with the pressures generated by rapid starts and stops with wind gusts. Failure has been a major cost for windfarms and you’ll probably find a reasonable % out of operation at any one time. Modern gearboxes are predicted to fail at about half the life of a 20 year turbine. It’s hard to know as most turbines are still new.

  • Engineer

    The fact that the Turbine life is only 20 years should ring alarm bells.

  • Peter Wilson

    I have a family member in the energy business. He says that alternative energy sources (wind, tidal power) could only ever supply around 20% of energy needs, so why even bother

    • MrV

      I think there is an opportunity for tidal to be further developed/proven, because generating capacity can be reasonably predicted owing to the regularity of the tide. But wind – forget about it.

      • Peter Wilson

        Well, the interesting thing about wind, is that it is totally predictable. It changes from day to day of course, but over a year is very consistent.

        The problem, I understand, with tidal power is finding the right material that won’t rapidly corrode in the salt water. Plus, of course, the engineering challenges of installation.

      • Peter Wilson

        Well, the interesting thing about wind, is that it is totally predictable. It changes from day to day of course, but over a year is very consistent.

        The problem, I understand, with tidal power is finding the right material that won’t rapidly corrode in the salt water. Plus, of course, the engineering challenges of installation.

    • http://www.whaleoil.co.nz Whaleoil

      A couple of decent nuke plants is all we need.

  • http://twitter.com/ChiefsFan73 Rhys Wilson

    Which is why Senator Bob Brown is trying to single the News Limited Press out after the News of the World scandal, for a big enquiry, but speaks nothing of the fairfax media.