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jurbie
852 posts
70 months
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I'm not local but google has found another report: http://news.stv.tv/scotland/304706-wind-turbine-ma...As well as the HSE's own breach notices against Nordex. http://www.hse.gov.uk/notices/recipient/recipient_...The impression I get is that Nordex are a bunch of cowboys who employ Brazilians because they can perhaps pay them a bit less but more likely because they won't make a fuss about lax health and safety. They are now discovering that whilst good health and safety is expensive it's nothing like as expensive as having an accident.
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LongQ
Original Poster
8,837 posts
102 months
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jurbie said: I'm not local but google has found another report: http://news.stv.tv/scotland/304706-wind-turbine-ma...As well as the HSE's own breach notices against Nordex. http://www.hse.gov.uk/notices/recipient/recipient_...The impression I get is that Nordex are a bunch of cowboys who employ Brazilians because they can perhaps pay them a bit less but more likely because they won't make a fuss about lax health and safety. They are now discovering that whilst good health and safety is expensive it's nothing like as expensive as having an accident. Good find. I note that the parent company is German. One would have thought they would be more thoroughly in control of how they manage their business in foreign lands. They have a country's reputation to uphold.
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Globs
11,747 posts
100 months
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LongQ said: They have a contry's reputation to uphold.  but they make windymills - you know, those bird toppling, subsidy gulping energy sinks.
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dickymint
11,405 posts
127 months
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LongQ said: However, apart from the personal tragedy involved, one has to wonder how a disturbine 'farm' developer can be in such a parlous financial state and why 'green jobs' in Scotland turn out to be the province of Brazilians. Specialist job and they're train for it in Rio.........  
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stevejh
592 posts
73 months
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Oakey
13,699 posts
85 months
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MEanhile, in Japan, two nuclear reactors are restarted due to a Summer power shortfall
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turbobloke
55,480 posts
129 months
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More LovelockOld Lovelock 'Billions of us will die, few breeding pairs of people that survive will be in Arctic'New Lovelock 'So-called sustainable development is meaningless drivel'
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Diderot
2,585 posts
61 months
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He's getting a kicking in the comments. Hell hath no fury like a guardianista scorned. 
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Blib
20,648 posts
66 months
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turbobloke
55,480 posts
129 months
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Blib said: His last comment on the current UK weather could be cut and addressed on the Science thread. And right on cue, here's Delingpole in the Mail. no wonder the world's cooling on climate changeArticle said: Of course, you are not supposed to ask yourselves: ‘Whatever happened to global warming?’
Not even if you say it particularly quietly, or as a joke. If you do, chances are you will be sharply reminded that ‘weather is not the same as climate’.
This is true. But it’s also a bit of a cop-out. After all, as most of us are now aware, there has been no ‘global warming’ since 1998, which is when the curve on the graph goes flat. Good stuff overall but it's still a pity that those who get to write in the MSM don't mention solar forcing as a combination of irradiance and eruptivity, focusing on the issue of sunspots presumably as a populist simplification device. Unfortunately it doesn't work that way.
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Pointman
107 posts
17 months
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@Oakey In Germany for instance, where they’ve sunk 100 million Euros into renewables and closed down all their nuclear plants in the wake of the anti-nuclear hysteria provoked by Fukushima, the alarm bell has started to ring in government circles. This was caused by their Federal Network Agency warning them last month, that the national power grid was in a precarious state, if not on the brink of collapse. Once you get past the bureaucratic speak, the message to the government, via not a private memo but most tellingly a press release, is explicit. Next winter, there’s going to be power outages across Germany and we’re handing over the problem to you. You regulated us into this position, so you regulate us out of it. http://thepointman.wordpress.com/2012/06/15/our-se...I get the feeling that a few reactors in Germany might be unmothballed in the near future. Pointman
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mybrainhurts
71,615 posts
124 months
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One has to chuckle, doesn't one...? Just wait until the BMWs don't get delivered on time... 
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Blib
20,648 posts
66 months
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Pointman said: One hopes and prays that Hanover doesn't suffer a devastating tsunami in the near future.
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Happy82
5,173 posts
38 months
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Perhaps a lack of power to heat homes over winter is what the populace need to make them wake up to the green / renewables lies , no amount of global warming promotion from the media will be able to make them believe it when they're freezing to death.
Basically life is too easy at the moment and people don't realise the dangers of cold weather, which is probably why the MMuGW scam has survived so long.
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Pointman
107 posts
17 months
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Happy82 said: Perhaps a lack of power to heat homes over winter is what the populace need to make them wake up to the green / renewables lies , no amount of global warming promotion from the media will be able to make them believe it when they're freezing to death. The DECC estimated that 18% of households in the UK fell into the official definition of fuel poverty. That figure was their estimate as of July 2009. In the last three years, power bills have soared. I wouldn't be surprised if the figure isn't now between 25% and 30%. Somebody has to pay for those birdie choppers and as usual, it's the poor. Pointman
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LongQ
Original Poster
8,837 posts
102 months
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mybrainhurts said: One has to chuckle, doesn't one...? Just wait until the BMWs don't get delivered on time... They will just build them somewhere else. China, USA, South Africa (still there I assume) and Hams Hall probably - if we have any power left ourselves. Still, if the manufacturing collapses in Germany due to energy shirtages will their companies be able to make more money by outsourcing manufacturing than by keeping it in the country? Or will the Government use it as a poor excuse for not being able to subsidise the Euro Zone?
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Apache
38,242 posts
153 months
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Pointman said: @Oakey In Germany for instance, where they’ve sunk 100 million Euros into renewables and closed down all their nuclear plants in the wake of the anti-nuclear hysteria provoked by Fukushima, the alarm bell has started to ring in government circles. This was caused by their Federal Network Agency warning them last month, that the national power grid was in a precarious state, if not on the brink of collapse. Once you get past the bureaucratic speak, the message to the government, via not a private memo but most tellingly a press release, is explicit. Next winter, there’s going to be power outages across Germany and we’re handing over the problem to you. You regulated us into this position, so you regulate us out of it. http://thepointman.wordpress.com/2012/06/15/our-se...I get the feeling that a few reactors in Germany might be unmothballed in the near future. Pointman Y'see, this is what perplexes me, Fukashima was not a disaster, even that bellend Monbiot changed his tune regarding nuclear power after it happened. It could have been, and considering the idiotic design, poor safety back ups and laughable siting, should have been but it wasn't. So why the hell did Merkel react as she did? is the Green lobby that powerful in Germany?
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Globs
11,747 posts
100 months
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Apache said: Fukashima was not a disaster What?
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LongQ
Original Poster
8,837 posts
102 months
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I see Charlie is sticking his oar in again. What next I wonder? Windfarms in the Palace garden? Dry toilets at all the royal residences? Rows himself to international 'duties' in a canoe?
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Apache
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153 months
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