The revealed wind turbine scandal – an attempt to push through solutions that destroy nature and the lives of millions of people – is a good opportunity to rethink the meaning of developing this industry now and under current conditions.
— Jabłoński: The wind turbine scandal affects farmers and rural residents. It is for them that the Tusk coalition wants to build wind turbines close to their homes
– Since the new Sejm has become adept at appointing investigative committees, it should appoint a committee to investigate the “Lex Kloska” scandal.
There is no doubt that the wind farm bill introduced by the opposition, which expects to come to power, is a major scandal. At the state level, it highlighted several problems. Firstly, the ease with which lobbyists reach representatives, i.e. parliamentarians. Secondly: slowness, lack of competence in the matter being dealt with so quickly, sheer stupidity, naivete and sloppiness in the legislative field. Did those from PO and Szymon Hołownia think that no one would notice that expropriation of wind turbines was proposed and that someone wanted to build them 300 meters from houses? Or maybe they were stupid enough not to understand these provisions. No lies, vague stories and oratorical tricks suitable for TVN programs by Szymon Hołownia will hide the fact that the draft law on wind farms provides for expropriation. What Poland 2050 writes in the comments on X is pure nonsense. What does Putin have to do with the terrible wind farm law?
World eaters
However, the issue has other aspects that go beyond our legislative problems and exceed the scope of our Sejm. Wind energy is a project for lobbyists and big companies, but also an ideological project that has nothing to do with the public good. This company is only thriving because it receives major government support, funded by tax dollars, which subsidizes this company.
Maybe this whole thing is coming together somewhere on a local scale, under very specific circumstances. For example, near Chicago, the Windy City (not to be confused with the Eternal City of Rome). And if in Rio de Janeiro the arms of the statue of Christ the Redeemer turned and produced electricity, that would be something. Well, on a large scale this company does not generate electricity, but gigantic problems.
The physical structure of the wind energy sector itself reveals its pathology. Windmills are the biggest killer of birds and landscapes. There is no life around them. Even ants move, and MPs from PO and Hołownia want people to live next to them. These are monsters that literally devour the surface of the planet. Everyone can check it for themselves, it is not a philosophy.
Let’s take the Margonin wind farm, which has 60 wind turbines. Nominally, i.e. if there is wind, it can supply electricity to 90,000 people. farms. Statistically, this is slightly more than the population of Kielce, which has 200,000 inhabitants. This city covers 110 square kilometers, or 11,000 hectares. This farm, which could supply households in Kielce, has an area of 10,000 m2. hectares. In other words, it would be necessary to cover the entire Kielce with windmills, or build an empty Kielce next to it, only with windmills, to provide the residents of Kielce with energy as pure as dew in the morning. And where is the electricity for businesses, public services like street lighting, etc., ha? It’s a good thing there are no trams in Kielce, because another windmill city would have to be built next to it.
The new wind turbine law that is being put forward provides for the construction of 120 meter high towers with rotating blades at a distance of 300 meters (currently 700) from residential homes. The helpful Environmental Engineering Committee of the Polish Academy of Sciences states in its report “Wind Power Plants in the Human Environment” that there is no evidence that they are harmful or burdensome. I have already proposed a pilot program – you need to build windmills in selected places at a human-friendly distance of 300 m. Let’s build them in Wilanów, around Konstancin, in Kazimierz on the Vistula in Warmia and Masuria and in the Bieszczady Mountains, with special emphasis on places where windmill enthusiasts have estates, i.e. the Royal State TVN and “Gazeta Wyborcza”. Leave some of these majestic eco-wonders on the Baltic Sea, preferably with a beautiful view from the terraces of the Bryza hotel in Jastarnia. To make it even more friendly and inclusive, you can paint the spades in rainbow colors.
Maybe these are not optimal places in terms of wind, but the aim of the pilot is to convince you that wind turbines do not harm anyone, in fact, they are even friendly, because when their legs move you can think that they are greeting you and to to remind you that he did something great for the earth and humanity. Let PO and Hołownia politicians live in the shadow of the spinning giant rainbow swords of Damocles.
In the wind
Around the world, the wind industry is in dire straits and is known to survive thanks to state aid, i.e. taxpayers’ money. On the occasion of the bill for the wind farm in Poland, much was said about the German company Siemens Energy, which requested a guarantee of 15 billion euros from the German government. Siemens Gamesa, the second largest manufacturer of wind turbines in Europe and the fifth largest in the world, lost 1 billion euros last year and had to lay off 3,000 employees. This year the results are even worse, hence the need for a guarantee for a generous government with taxpayers’ money. Siemens has been in the news lately for another reason. This is thanks to the show of Jim Hagemann Snabe, the head of the supervisory board of all Simens, owner of Energy, Gamesa and dozens of subsidiaries. Well, at the meeting of the world’s rulers and owners in Davos, the Dane announced that to save the climate, a billion people must stop eating meat. During the “Mobilization for Climate” panel, he said that animal proteins will be replaced by synthetic proteins and that they will probably taste even better. Siemens not only has plans for wind, climate and electricity, for example in Poland, but also for the kitchen and our customs. I can already imagine grilling and a cauldron of Bieszczady bigos with synthetic meat.
But let’s get back to friendly windmills and, since we’ve been recalling the Danish diet, let’s also mention Danish companies. Vestas Wind Systems, the world’s second largest manufacturer of wind turbines, is in big trouble and lost 1.6 billion euros last year. On the occasion of the Wind Farm Act, we met another Danish company, the world’s largest builder of wind farms, Orsted. It turned out that Hołownia’s main expert on wind and climate, Krzysztof Bolesta, is the husband of the head of the Polish Offshore Orsted Polska, Agata Staniewska-Bolesta. But it is not because of the Bolest couple that the Danish company is famous all over the world. Well, the world’s largest developer of offshore wind farms had to halt major projects in the US. It will leave one million homes in New Jersey without electricity. Orsted’s losses for the nine months of 2023 amount to $5.6 billion. The price has more than doubled over the year: a year ago the price for 1 share was over 700 Danish kroner and now the price is only about 300. Just three years ago it was worth over four times as much. Considering these results, the Orlen stock market crash after the parliamentary vote on PO and Poland 2050 is only minor.
In any case, the Danish company will become a partner of PGE on the Baltica 2 and 3 wind farms. Perhaps something will come of it, although a similar project off the coast of Great Britain was stopped a few months ago by the Swedish Vattenfall. And RWE is dismantling wind farms to make way for a lignite mine in North Rhine-Westphalia.
These are not isolated cases, but a trend that shows the problems that the wind farm sector causes not only with energy, but also with the operation itself. Enthusiasts point out that the problems are apparently temporary: excessively high interest rates and bottlenecks in supply chains. It is a lie. The wind lobby and climate fanatics deceive and deceive us. These problems become permanent. Eurozone interest rates won’t fall anytime soon, so the money needed to finance unprofitable but huge investments in wind farms will remain expensive for a very long time. This includes: due to high energy prices. Climate fanatics themselves have constructed this closed circle of impossibility. Due to the thoughtless switch to renewable energy, energy prices are very high, making the switch to renewable energy very expensive. And so, in order to keep energy prices at such a level that individual consumers can survive, PO and Polska 2050 plan to ruin Orlen. And according to the forecasts of the German Federal Network Agency, the equivalent of the Polish Energy Regulatory Agency, the cost of energy production in the Oder could rise by as much as 40% by 2030. And yet electricity was supposed to be free because it came from the sun’s rays and zephyrs.
All this has another effect. The industry is leaving Europe, which means that production of renewable energy equipment, for example, is moving to China. Until recently, Europe led the way, and now the Middle Kingdom is home to six of the world’s ten largest producers of wind turbines and all wind turbine equipment. The situation is similar in the rankings of companies building wind farms. Supply chains are getting longer, bottlenecks are shrinking and dependence on raw materials – especially rare earth metals needed for sustainable energy – is increasing.
Therefore, you should seriously consider whether it makes sense to enter this industry at all in the current political and economic conditions. Of course, the pressure from climate fanatics, the EU, the German and domestic lobbies will be enormous, especially since we have an opposition that expects power. Regardless of whether the allegedly obtained loan money from KPO – we have been abiding by the law since October 15 – goes to contracts with Siemens, another foreign wind company or whatever, we still know that almost 40 percent of the total fund is probably intended for In rebuilding the economy after Covid, we have to waste on air conditioning anyway. So in addition to Kielce itself, which is for people, we should, for example, build Kielce for wind turbines.
Source: wPolityce