The wind industry hates Donald J Trump with a passion and the feeling is mutual. Never in the field of rent-seeker conflict was so much owed by so many to so few. Smashing the myth upon which the whole scam is predicated, and then smashing wind power outfits, one by one, Trump has done more to restore energy sanity to the world than any other political player.

Which brings us to this week’s roundup.

In the first, Alec Schemmel reports on the President’s decision to scotch what might have been one of America’s largest onshore environmental and economic disasters.

Trump admin nixes giant wind farm approved ‘last-minute’ by Biden team
Fox News
Alec Schemmel
6 August 2025

The team from Jo Nova report – with appropriate glee – on the fact that the global collapse in the wind industry’s massively subsidised fortunes is being played out in Australia, too.

Renewables Investment “falls off a cliff” in Australia — down 64% this year
Jo Nova Blog
Jo Nova
12 August 2025

Mike Newman provides a very detailed and helpful takedown of the whole net-zero carbon dioxide emissions scam, highlighting the overweening hypocrisy of those who seek to profit from it.

Riding the Dead Horse to Ruin
Substack
Mike Newman
11 August 2025

David Wojick provides a tale from the American West, where plans by Easterners to create a Nirvana ‘powered’ with sunshine and breezes are being foiled by the same gritty, independent spirit that tamed the West, in the first place.

Electric power fantasies collide out West
CFACT
David Wojick
11 Ausust 2025

David Wojick follows up with a report on how environmental groups are finally taking the wind industry’s pointless slaughter of whales, dolphins and other marine critters seriously.

NOAA petitioned to stop offshore wind killing whales
CFACT
David Wojick
5 Auguyst 2025

In this 10 minute video, Robert Bryce highlights the global resistance to industrial-scale solar, with rural communities uniting to stop pointless destruction of habitats and the loss of prime agricultural land to a massively subsidised occasional power source.

SUNBLOCK: The Global Fight To Save Farmland From Big Solar
YouTube
Robert Bryce
3 August 2025

Stay tuned, STT will be back next week with more.