**** The NRMRC has been wearing “ribbons of shame” since it rushed to print with its selective, biased and incomplete literature review back in 2010. The very, very Rapid Review was so quick off the mark that it completely missed the decade of work put together by Neil Kelley & Co during the 1980s in … Continue reading NHMRC Disqualified from Coalition’s Health Inquiry
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We are a group of citizens concerned about the rapid spread of industrial wind power generation installations across Australia.
Judith Sloan: Junking the RET is the right thing to do
Judith Sloan has already entered the STT Pantheon with an earlier piece on the insanity that is the RET (see our post here). Well, the lass with a head for numbers - and smarter than brain pie - is back at it with this sizzling piece from The Australian. Junking energy target is right The … Continue reading Judith Sloan: Junking the RET is the right thing to do
US Judge Orders Noisy Turbines to be Shut Down
Court Orders Utility To Address Wind Turbine Noise Problems Michigan Capital Confidential By Jack Spencer February 7 2014 Residents near Consumers Energy wind farm complain of health issues A judge has ordered Consumers Energy to come up with a plan to rid its Lake Winds Energy Plant of excessive noise levels. Last month, Consumers Energy asked … Continue reading US Judge Orders Noisy Turbines to be Shut Down
Kill the RET and Save the Poor
The REC Tax that comes with the RET is the most regressive tax of all. The impact on the poorest and most vulnerable is punishing and has led to the new phrase of our time – “energy poverty”. Germany has disconnected some 800,000 homes from its grid simply because they can no longer afford their … Continue reading Kill the RET and Save the Poor
Miners gang up on the RET
Australia’s miners have carried its economy along on a wave of investment and export growth over the last 20 years – so when they talk – governments listen (see our post here). Here’s a cracking piece by Minerals Council Chief, Brendon Pearson that appeared in The Australian. No end in sight to soaring electricity prices … Continue reading Miners gang up on the RET
The RET helped to kill Alcoa’s Port Henry Aluminium Smelter & 980 jobs
**** Proving Ron Boswell’s statement that: “Australia can have a carbon price and renewable energy targets or viable manufacturing. We can’t have both” – aluminium refiner, Alcoa has just announced that it will pull the plug on its Port Henry smelter near Geelong – with the loss of 980 jobs. Here’s The Australian on another … Continue reading The RET helped to kill Alcoa’s Port Henry Aluminium Smelter & 980 jobs
Europe ditches green economics
With their renewables experiment fast starting to look like a costly disaster, Europeans are quickening the pace in their rush to bring the insanity to an end. Europe Starts To Run, Not Walk, Away From Green Economics Investors.com 5 February 2014 Energy Policy: The media aren't paying much attention, but in recent weeks Europe has decided … Continue reading Europe ditches green economics
Frank Campbell: Letter of the week
The wind industry and it parasites are working overtime at the minute in a vain attempt to win back the moral high ground - one target are local rural rags that are always keen to print anything that'll fill their pages. Well, no longer do these spinners get a free run, as friendly, farming folk … Continue reading Frank Campbell: Letter of the week
Health Impacts of Waterloo Wind Farm
**** In the recent review (not study) of the health impacts of wind farms, the NH&MRC renewed their call for a precautionary approach and emphasised the need for more research. This recommendation echoed their earlier Rapid review, as well as the Senate enquiry in 2011 - that more research was needed as there was a … Continue reading Health Impacts of Waterloo Wind Farm
Dennis Shanahan: time to scrap the “secret” carbon tax
**** The Australian’s Dennis Shanahan has come out swinging against the RET – calling it the “secret” carbon tax that simply has to go. Abbott finds energy to act on ‘secret’ carbon tax The Australian Dennis Shanahan, comment 18 February 2014 AFTER years of shadow boxing, Tony Abbott has finally decided to act on the … Continue reading Dennis Shanahan: time to scrap the “secret” carbon tax
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