New ‘Blown Away’ Film Wrecks The Idea Of Wind Power

Steve Cortes, founder of the League of American Workers, has recently branched out into short documentary filmmaking. His latest piece, Blown Away: Exposing the Wind Scam, pulls no punches in exposing the fraud of wind farms.

Cortes packs a lot of information into a digestible documentary format—his films run about the same time as a medium-length podcast. In 24 minutes, Blown Away lays waste to the underlying assumptions that wind energy could ever replace fossil fuels in the ever-increasing demand for electricity in America and across the globe.

The germ of the documentary, according to Cortes, came from a moment in a television series that went viral on social media. Landman, a drama on Paramount+, stars Billy Bob Thornton as an oil company employee who works in the field and handles the business side of drilling. In one episode, Thornton’s character rants about the amount of petroleum used to make and operate wind turbines, and how “renewable energy” could never overtake fossil fuels for our energy needs. Understandably, that scene in a popular series caused significant reaction on both sides of the debate.

Cortes took that moment and ran with it.

Right out of the gate, he comes strong with the realities of wind power—and their failure to match the hype:

These windmills, they’re giant. They’re disgustingly ugly. They’re bad for the environment, especially animals. And they are one gigantic, expensive scam. Once you know the full truth of the wind scam, you will be blown away.

He traveled to New Mexico, which has the second largest deposits of oil and natural gas of any state in America. That makes this state an odd choice for the implementation of the Green New Deal, and yet it has the largest wind farm being built in America.