President Donald Trump announced through social media that the U.S. will no longer “approve wind or farmer destroying Solar.” He posted:
Any State that has built and relied on WINDMILLS and SOLAR for power are seeing RECORD BREAKING INCREASES IN ELECTRICITY AND ENERGY COSTS. THE SCAM OF THE CENTURY! …The days of stupidity are over in the USA!!!
August 20, 2025, truthsocial.com
While this may seem like another hyperbole from the colorful President, on the contrary, he’s right: it is a scam. Bjorn Lomborg, president of the global think-tank, Copenhagen Consensus, says where countries have turned to so-called “renewables”, they must pay for two power systems since the sun doesn’t always shine and the wind isn’t always blowing.
Ask families in Germany and the UK what happens when more and more supposedly “cheap” solar and wind power is added to the national power mix, and they can tell you by looking at their utility bills: It gets far more expensive.
Bjorn Lomborg, New York Post, May 7, 2025; cf.
Germany and the UK now have so much “low-cost” solar and wind, he writes, “that their electricity costs have become among the world’s most expensive.” The same thing happened in Ontario after the Liberal government there let green corporations invade the countryside with industrial wind turbines.
Claims that wind or solar power are “cheaper” than fossil fuels does not tell the full story, writes environmental journalist, Naveen Athrappully . “It only calculates the cost of electricity generation when the power source is actually generating electricity… [it]does not include all the costs involved in producing electricity 24×7 continuously, which is necessary for an electric grid to be reliable.”1
Lomborg says the latest data from the International Energy Agency shows a strong and clear correlation between more solar and wind and much higher average energy prices for households and industries. In a country with little or no solar and wind, the average electricity cost is a bit over 11¢ per kilowatt-hour. For every 10 percentage points of solar and wind, the cost increases by more than 4¢. The results are nearly similar for 2019, before any impacts of COVID and the Ukraine war.
In the US, however, he says solar and wind costs are paid indirectly through tax deductions, implying that the actual cost of electricity with solar and wind is perhaps 25% higher than stated prices. It’s precisely why Trump has blasted it as a scam.
Big business, big banks, big law firms, and climate-focused NGOs are profiting from this run on the federal treasury in the name of climate change.
Robert Bryce, Substack, April 4, 2024
Should Canadian Leaders Follow Suit?
The U.S. President isn’t the only politician to expose that ideology rather than common sense is driving the “green” energy wave. Premier Danielle Smith pointed to Alberta’s soaring energy costs and flatly stated of the former government: “This is what happens when ideology runs the power grid.”2
So why is Alberta still allowing “green” projects to continue to be approved, especially when it is sitting on centuries of natural gas and oil reserves — true green resources, since they come from the earth like water, soil, and plants? The answer is pretty obvious: politics. While Trump won a clear mandate and majority to get his country’s economy back on track, Smith’s majority is more fragile and dependent upon major cities where the vast majority of leftwing voters reside. How do you put the brakes on environmentally damaging and price-increasing energy sources like wind energy when young voters have been indoctrinated to believe green energy will save the planet?
The answer is what we have been trying to do here at Wind Concerns: education. We are regularly publishing new studies and research and submitting it to the appropriate minstries who, by now, should be convinced that the road down renewables is a dead-end. What is needed are bold decisions by politicians to simply do the right — if unpopular thing. Whether you love or hate Trump, he’s doing the right thing when it comes to the climate change complex.
We need to elect leaders in Canada who will follow suit. High energy costs not only punish average Canadians but drives away business. And technologies like industrial wind turbines marr the landscape for generations to come. It’s a scam. May the days of stupidity soon be over in Alberta too.
- cf. https://www.windconcerns.com/the-true-cost-of-energy-generated-from-wind-turbines/[↩]
- https://www.windconcerns.com/what-happens-when-ideology-runs-the-power-grid/[↩]
Mark Mallett is a former award-winning reporter with CTV Edmonton and an independent researcher and author. His family homesteaded between Vermilion and Cold Lake, Alberta, and now resides in the Lakeland region. Mark is Editor in Chief of Wind Concerns.
Yup, wind and solar experts are lying when they tell us their technology powers X number of homes.
If that was true, there would not be any need for back up power from nuclear, gas, or, coal or hydraulic.
https://parkergallantenergyperspectivesblog.wordpress.com/2025/08/18/iwt-went-missing-for-two-days-but-suddenly-show-up-when-unneeded/
Trump is right, this is a scam. Wind and solar can’t be relied on to produce power 24/7. These turbines destroy the landscape and are unsightly. Businesses will not invest in Alberta if we are relying on solar and wind for power. Alberta is blessed with having natural gas to provide our power needs but the radical enviromentalists do not have the mental capacity to use common sense. Danielle Smith is right in stating that this source of power will only result in an excessive rise in power rates.
You tell us things that people with common sense have known all along. Anytime a government has to subsidize something to make it economically competitive it demonstrates that the “something” cannot survive on its own merit. The real tragedy for the people is that almost no government is ever willing to backtrack on stupid decisions, leaving their people to deal with the chaos and expense of decisions they never were asked about. Wind, solar, and even corn-based ethanol production are businesses that can’t survive on their own merits. But, once subsidies are in place those industries become self-licking ice cream cones that employ lobbyists and PR firms to cement themselves in place and to convince politicians and gullible people of their necessity. We – THE SCAMMED – don’t really have a chance. Meanwhile, the Earth, supposedly the reason for it all, continues to pay for ideological stupidity.
Hmm, We Should Wonder; Did Doug Ford Tell us Ontario Ratepayers and Taxpayers a Big Lie – Parker Gallant Energy Perspectives