Busting the Climate and Energy Lies – a Limitless Series
IAIN HUNTER
It’s been too long since I wrote anything about the climate bullshit so, prompted by an article that appeared in the Telegraph on the weekend of 9/10th August I reckon it’s time to put that right.
In January of last year, I posted On the Folly of Wind Turbines. Since then we’ve had our change of government in Britain and the disaster has occurred of having Ed Milliband installed as the laughably titled Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero. He was rumoured to have cancelled all new drilling licences in the North Sea oil and gas fields shortly after taking office but that was denied by the Starmer regime. However, in March this year the regime moved to start putting into effect its manifesto pledge to cancel new licences and at the same time announced two consultations on tax and future exploration that gave North Sea operators just eight weeks to secure proposals for a stable future. Madness.
Milliband has taken the brakes off onshore wind farm development but it’s the devasting consequences to the British fishing industry, or what remains of it, of the offshore windfarms which are exposed by that Telegraph article.
When Ken Bagley led a convoy of fishing boats into battle against the UK’s first wind developers two decades ago, his hope was to save something of the fishing industry that had supported his family since the 1890s.
Bagley’s convoy sailed in front of the barges attempting to install the first turbines in the rich fishing grounds off Skegness, halting work and infuriating the contractors trying to kick-start Britain’s entry into the world of green energy.
“They were installing that turbine into one of the richest mussel beds in the region, so I led 22 boats into the construction area and halted the work. We thought it was a great victory back then,” recalls Bagley, who is chairman of the Boston Fishermen’s Association.
Twenty years later, he sees it as a hollow victory: “The wind farms are still stealing our fishing grounds from us.”
Twenty years ago there were few wind turbines in British waters. The first ones arrived in 2000 just off Blyth in Northumberland. Since then another 3,000 have been installed in nearly 50 wind farms that now cover thousands of square miles of sea. On the Dogger Bank, a joint venture between Equinor, Vårgrønn – both Norwegian – and SSE, is being built across what was once Britain and Europe’s richest fishing grounds.
James Cole, who fishes out of Whitby in Yorkshire is head of the Whitby Commercial Fishermen’s Organisation. He says:
“The cables being laid from Dogger Bank plus the carbon capture pipelines that are also being laid out to sea are hugely disruptive,” he says. “We can’t fish in areas where they are working but this is the crab and lobster season, which is the time when we earn most of our income.
“These foreign wind companies are just forcing British fishermen to move away from their traditional fishing grounds. We are being pushed around by big business and useless politicians.”
Just how the fishing grounds are being stolen is neatly illustrated in the article which goes on to describe the floating turbines that will make up the windfarms now being constructed off-shore and those that are projected. As if turbines built on the sea-bed weren’t bad enough for the fishermen, the new floating turbines are an absolute disaster.
These machines are designed for waters too deep for conventional turbines. In theory they offer a way to encircle the entire British Isles with wind farms – with official maps showing planned construction already approaching this level. Each floating turbine will need to trail several mooring and power cables down through the water column and between machines.
The following illustration shows the principle.
An assumption is made that fisheries are infinitely relocatable, that the fishermen can simply go and fish elsewhere but that completely ignores the nature of the sea bed and where the particular fish species that fishermen target will be found. They do not exist everywhere.
The problem is not just the existing windfarms or the ones currently under construction. The Dogger Bank windfarm is just the beginning of what is in store for British waters and British fishermen. Currently, The UK’s 3,000 offshore turbines have a supposed capacity of about 16 gigawatts. Recently, however, Miliband announced the plans to triple that capacity by 2030 with even more to come by 2050. It means several thousand more turbines, collectively driving Britain’s fishermen into ever smaller areas. To appreciate the scale of the take over of British territorial waters just take a look at this illustration.
Up in Scotland, Stuart King, of West Coast Sea Products, based in Kirkcudbright, runs five scallop fishing boats operating right around Britain, generating jobs for 135 people including 35 crew. He says that the politicians responsible represent inland constituencies and have no idea about the industry they are legislating for.
“Our politicians are making decisions about fishing based on nothing more than watching a David Attenborough documentary,” King says. “They know nothing. Not only are we excluded from wind farms but there is a growing hazard from the cables taking power ashore. These are often covered in rocks and if we snag them it’s a serious safety hazard. These cables are closing off large areas of our fishing grounds.”
RenewableUK (UnreliableUK?), through its policy director Ana Musat, rejects these claims ands says it works with the fishing industry to enable fishing to continue. They claim the windfarms are specifically designed to enable this although there might be temporary dispruption or enforced cessation of fishing during some phases of construction. They say compensation would be paid in that case and they claim to be open to ‘feedback’.
It’s not just the fishermen, however. I wrote in On the Folly of Wind Turbines that:
Off-shore turbines don’t get a free pass either. As well as being lethal to sea birds it is thought that the low frequencies set up by the turbines can interfere with the echolocation and communication of whales, dolphins and porpoises leading to navigational confusion and strandings.
It goes further than that. Due to the electric fields set up around the cables, species of marine life which rely on the earth’s magnetic field to migrate around the sea bed have their senses interfered with. Scientists have reported crabs becoming disorientated and some fish larvae being much less active.
Cynically, fishermen compare that to the mindless attitude of politicians who are so obsessed with climate change and cutting emissions that they are destroying one of Britain’s traditional family and community industries.
The government claims to be working closely with the Crown Estate to ensure the seabed is “unlocked” for offshore wind power while “minimising the impact on fishing”. They say there is a £360m Fisheries and Coastal Growth Fund while there will be thousands of skilled jobs brought to coastal towns by the offshore wind projects. Many of these jobs turn out to be temporary and will cease to exist when each construction phase is complete.
Bagley said: “We are just being pushed out. We have to ask: where are we going to be able to fish? Everything is being taken off us.”
Ken Bagley, James Cole, Stuart King and their friends and colleagues would be incandescent with rage if they understood that the whole wind farm business, every single project, every part of this so-called “energy transition” is based on an outrageous lie about the need to curb emissions of carbon dioxide in order to mitigate imagined anthropogenic climate change.
In the four part series There is a Climate Crisis – It Just Isn’t What You Think It Is I told the story of the global warming/climate change scare and who created it. I wish I’d had the work of Lynne Balzer to draw on then. Balzer is a retired teacher of physics, chemistry and biology. She started looking into this issue and spent 13 years working with the Faraday Science Institute to arrive at the truth. after considering all the facts she came to the conclusion that anthropogenic climate change is perhaps the greatest hoax ever visited upon humanity.
She has produced a 45 minute lecture, titled The Dirty Roots of the Climate Scam which she has presented to Tom Nelson for his podcast series. It pulls no punches in telling the story. Here it is:
The nefarious deeds of Al Gore and his accomplices are highlighted. Perhaps he knows his game is up; that would certainly explain his deranged, paranoid rantings at recent meetings of the World Economic Forum. He must be hoping to keep the scam going just long enough for him slip off this mortal coil so he doesn’t have to face the consequences of his actions, be stripped of his Nobel Peace Prize, and lose every dollar of the $300m he is reputed to have made from carbon trading. What sweet justice it would be if he were to evade death long enough to see that happen.
This article (Wind Turbines and the Dirty Roots of the Climate Scam) was created and published by Iain Hunter and is republished here under “Fair Use”
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