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To: Brumar89 who wrote (71597)	8/20/2016 1:39:46 PM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 86350

German Scam: “A Contribution To Rescuing The Climate” Is In Fact Just “A Multibillion Euro Business” By P Gosselin on 19. August 2016 Germany’s largest circulation daily, BILD, recently wrote an article titled: The Multibillion Euro Madness With The Energiewende, which looks at the profound failure of Germany’s transition to renewable energies and the government bowing to the green energy lobby. The BILD article refers to a recent German ARD public television documentary. “Exploding costs” BILD begins by bringing up the fact that many wind parks are built in places where there really isn’t that much wind to start with, and that in general “costs for the Energiewende are exploding” and it’s the landowners where the turbines are sited who are making money hand over fist. In the end the consumer picks up the tab for what many see as a rampant, crony-capitalist scheme that is benefitting only a select and elite few (who are already well off). The result for the rest of the people are huge costs and no benefit of any type. Bild writes: Indeed what the lobby sold as a contribution to the rescue of the climate is foremost one thing: a multibillion-euro business!” Bild also cites examples of how the industry is corrupt to the very core, citing internal e-mails from Germany’s number 1 environmentalist group BUND and showing how the activist organization “is doing the lobbying work for the wind industry. Of bird species that are chopped up by rotating blades, it is best not to speak about it.” Even the BUND director admits that many of its members are active in the wind industry. Bild writes in bold letters: The losers are people who have little money. Single mother Nina Albig has two jobs, her power bill has double since 2008: 90 euros.” Nina Albig tells BILD that she’s desperate and has no idea where to get the money to pay for the high costs. BILD writes that the government’s idea to revamp the country’s spiralling-out-of-control Energiewende is a good first step, but that there’s one obstacle: “The Lobby”. BILD quotes a top Green party official Anton Hofreiter, who shouted at a demonstration that was in large part attended by employees of the green energy industry who were bussed in free of charge: “We need wind turbines to rescue our planet.” In the end BILD reports that the government bowed to The Lobby and decided to further expand wind energy, thus ratcheting up the pain consumers are having to endure. BILD summarizes: The consumers will be asked to cough it up. That means all of us.” - See more at: http://notrickszone.com/2016/08/19/german-scam-a-contribution-to-rescuing-the-climate-is-in-fact-just-a-multibillion-euro-business/#sthash.gRLbc3x3.