Essay by Eric Worrall
“… The clean energy company strongly denies this allegation, saying that no such offer was ever made. …”
Farmer claims he was offered lap dance if he agreed to wind turbine on his land
Energy company offering Welsh landowners incentives to sign up to green schemes denies the allegations
Telegraph Reporters8 January 2024 • 11:09am
A farmer was offered cash and a trip to a lap dancing club in exchange for allowing a company to build a wind turbine on his land, according to a council document.
The apparent bribe was made as part of an alleged “dirty tricks” campaign to use financial incentives as a sweetener for more turbines across the Welsh countryside.
During an emergency meeting of Nelson community council near Caerphilly, South Wales, to discuss controversial new green power installations, minutes show a member of the public claimed that Bute Energy, a Scottish company focused on green power schemes in Wales, had made the offer to a local farmer.
The clean energy company strongly denies this allegation, saying that no such offer was ever made.
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Read more (paywalled): https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/01/08/farmer-claims-he-was-offered-cash-and-trip-to-lap-dance-clu/
This isn’t the first time I’ve heard of interesting incentives being offered, though offering an erotic experience in return for allowing wind turbines, if this is what happened, is a new low.
I was at a power line protest a few months ago in which one of the participants accused companies of offering $500 shopping vouchers in return for signing away land rights. The extent of the land right giveaway was allegedly obfuscated in the small print.
I don’t know what actually happened in this particular case, but I am getting a strong sense that some renewable energy developers are getting desperate, especially in places where a future change of government is on the cards, and their short term payoff is proportionate to hitting progress milestones. Most of the low hanging fruit has been picked, and remaining landowners who haven’t already accepted offers are in some cases proving to be a significant obstacle to renewable developers receiving their next tranche of taxpayer cash.
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Now if it’d been a sheep giving the lap dance Tavey would’ve taken the deal. 😉
You rotten swine! I had exactly the same thoughts. 😂😂😂😂😂
Aye, a good ole bit o’ ogitaggin on the dance floor, would go down well. 😄
That is a Llap Dance in Wales. and should only be done intermittently.
Define a recreation centre in Cardiff. A sheep tied to a lamp-post.
Would you prefer a Polish lap-dancer or a Lappish Pole Dancer
Would probably end up with a bearded trans lap-dancer of the very ugly kind !
Might need a crane after that.
At my age, I’d be happy with one.
A great Rodney Dangerfield line: “At my age, I envy a stiff wind.”
Presumably the crane is only using “clean energy” to do its job.
Alastair, is your joke about just putting the Welsh guttural ‘ll’ in front of ‘lap’, or did you know that llap is actually a real welsh word, meaning scrotum? I am not a Welsh speaker and only know this via Monty Python’s Welsh martial art – ‘llap goch’ – red scrotum. For more information, see this link: https://www.llapgoch.org.uk/
They might buy more interest if they offered 5% of the subsidy payments over the life of the turbine and 1¢ per KWh produced
Better yet, if they really want to bribe the land owner, give them their electricity usage for free over the life of the turbine
So … 15 years of intermittent electricity and then a huge bill to remove the broken tower?
A pair of smart suited Londoners (Sean & Jamie) visited me, in the far NE corner of Cumbria, having spotted my 2 toy turbines (Sammy and Wang Wang)
My farm seemed ideal, it had a 35 mile uninterrupted vista to the prevailing south west and a nice phat 11kV 3-phase line running across it.
They asserted that if I let them plant a 500kW turbine in a far corner of a field, I’d get one pence for every kWh it produced.
At the time, the ‘going rate’ for retail electric was about 18 pence so there’s your 5%.
They weren’t very clued up on the process, the largest turbine that could connect to my transmission line was ‘only’ 250kW
I knew of and often visited (to artificially inseminate his cows) a dairy farm 24 miles away as the crow flies from mine. With binoculars I could see his windmill, one of a group of 3 spread over 2 adjacent dairy farms.
Each turbine was rated 500kW and he always reckoned that the one he had doubled the income from his 90 cow dairy heard
How about 1 cent per kWh promised?
I figure 1c per nameplate kW times 24 hours daily would do me fine and the bigger and more the merrier.
PS: They said they’d get back to me so I told them don’t leave it too long as we’re all on TikTok together and understand the marketplace-
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£43.8 million a year?!
Did I do the math right and is 1 pence 100th of a pound sterling?
500,000KW nameplate (always base the deal on the flat rated output, not the actual production or the lack thereof) x 24 x365 x 0.01
you multiplied the 500kW by 1,000 tpo get 500,000kW before you started your calc.
For a 500kW turbine, at 1p per rated kW per hour for the full year, the full calc is:
500kW x 0.01GBP/kw x 24 hr/day x 365 day/yr = GBP 43,800
(US keyboard, no Pound key 🙂 )
Here, £, borrow mine. 🙂
Well the offer is firmly within wokey ends- justify- the- means- philosophy, and Epsteinian proclivities that A-list Wokies prefer.
Can’t have happened. Nothing about it on the BBC website.
Sarc tag. There are sarcasm impaired in the vicinity!
Reminds me of a joke I heard recently.
What do wind turbines and strippers have in common?
You have to throw money at them to get them to perform.
At least the strippers return something of perceived value for the money
At least strippers perform when the wind blows! Except I’m not sure that’s such a good idea!!!!
There’s gotta be something about a blow job in all of that!
Was Ed Militwat the lap dancer?
Lap-dog dancer.
Now a certain ex Prime Minister’s father-in-law, makes around £300Kpa. out of renting out his land.
You mean our illustrious Foreign Secretary?
Just to expand that, “Dave Boy”, “Hug a Husky” Cameron, Prime Minister of the UK 2010-2016, now Lord Cameron, Foreign Secretary, famously said that “we need to get rid of the green crap.”
However, his lovely wife Samantha’s father, Sir Reginald Sheffield, allowed BigWind to erect eight modest sized (by today’s standards) whirligigs in a corner of his ancestral estate.
For this, Sir Reginald, trousered £1,000 per day, rain, hail, snow or blow.
It has been suggested that the old sofa in the attic didn’t appeal and most “green crap” was consequently retained and, in fact, hugely expanded, entirely at the expense of the plebs who face the consequences also of unreliable energy.
Note also that Cameron was faced, when Prime Minister, with such opposition to the continued membership of the UK to the insanely corrupt, green and incompetent European Union, whose laws allowed vast numbers of unwanted invaders into the Country, regardless that almost none were “refugees” in any sense, but were largely excitable young male adherents of the Religion of Peace, that Cameron agreed to a referendum on leaving the EU. Despite spending millions campaigning to remain, the British People voted to leave. Cameron’s response was to resign in a sulk.
It is fair to say that the Uniparty that rules us has only got worse since 2016, we still haven’t been allowed to leave the EU properly, invaders are everywhere to be seen and Big Wind is lavished with hundreds of Billions of taxpayers’ and energy users’ money to despoil our once pleasant land.
“Dave Boy”, “Hug a Husky” + Pig porker……
So totally childish and self-tittivating, what has become of this world?
(Don’t answer that)
Even before the offer was patently made as a joke and the world has lost its sense of humour, if any UK lap dancing club ever actually delivers or supplies ‘sex’, it would be closed down, permanently, the day before yesterday.
You need to get off your farm more Peta.
Wind and solar have nothing. Their products don’t work, they aren’t long lasting, they are expensive, they aren’t dispatchable, they are ugly, they kill wildlife, they aren’t recyclable and they aren’t sustainable. Who in the hell would think they are a good idea?
A politician?
Oh, sorry, that’s after they get to Hell.
Caveat emptor. Hope that he held out at least formovign the whole club to his property, and transferrable free electricity.for his entire property for thirty years (regardless of the lifetime of the turbine).
Getting a fee based on the nominal power output of the turbines would be good, however, there are several caveats to be considered:
I wonder how many landowners have 3, 4 & 5 in their contracts?
I would not want to be a landowner who, having spent the loadsamoney, is then lumbered with the cost of demolition because the special purpose company set up to build and operate the turbine has suddenly and most unexpectedly gone bankrupt just before it is due to be decommissioned!
Interesting way to “save the planet” – trade carbon emissions for other more organic emissions.