South Australia’s Wind Power Chaos: Victoria’s Coal-Fired Plant its Only Salvation

Wind cultists have been making the brazen claim that the rampant proliferation of these things in South Australia led to the demise of Alinta's coal-fired plant at Port Augusta. The perverse economics of the LRET (and the market distortions of directing RECs - currently worth $80 - to a 'product' with NO commercial value) is … Continue reading South Australia’s Wind Power Chaos: Victoria’s Coal-Fired Plant its Only Salvation

NSW Planning Dept Cover Up: Wind Farm Noise Documents Buried

New South Wales is a hotbed of wind industry corruption of the kind that would keep its ICAC busy for a decade (see our posts here and here). At the centre of the cesspit is the NSW Planning Department. After being bombarded with complaints raised by wind farm neighbours about incessant turbine generated low-frequency noise … Continue reading NSW Planning Dept Cover Up: Wind Farm Noise Documents Buried

Panic Erupts: Infigen Set to Offload Worn-Out Australian Wind Farms to Even ‘Greater Fools’

**** In the hard-hitting Danish docu-drama, Follow the Money, the Armani-suited executives of Energreen play a game of cat and mouse with the Fraud Squad, pumping up the value of their wind farm ‘assets’, while erasing anything from their books that investors might reasonably conclude were liabilities. Some viewers might call it ‘creative accounting’, others … Continue reading Panic Erupts: Infigen Set to Offload Worn-Out Australian Wind Farms to Even ‘Greater Fools’

South Australia: Proving Wind Power a Recipe for Social & Economic Disaster

The image above is taken from the Collins Picture Dictionary under the definition of 'chaos': complete confusion and disorder : a state in which behavior and events are not controlled by anything. To be fair, South Australia's power supply is 'controlled' ......  'controlled' by the vagaries of the weather, that is. Renewables alone a recipe … Continue reading South Australia: Proving Wind Power a Recipe for Social & Economic Disaster

Wind Industry Corruption in NSW: Planning Officer ‘Doctors’ Noise Impact Report to Get Project Approval

New South Wales is a hotbed of wind industry corruption, as Maurice Newman (the Business Adviser to former PM, Tony Abbott) laid plain during a recent interview with STT Champion, Alan Jones: Wind Industry Corruption in NSW: Maurice Newman Lifts the Lid Alan is back, this time with yet more detail on just how rotten … Continue reading Wind Industry Corruption in NSW: Planning Officer ‘Doctors’ Noise Impact Report to Get Project Approval

Australian Power Retailers Snub Wind & Turn to the Sun

STT has been pointing out for sometime now, the fact that Australia’s big 3 power retailers have been refusing to ‘play ball’ with beleaguered wind power cowboys, like near-bankrupt, Infigen and the union super fund backed disaster, Pacific Hydro. Commercial retailers have not entered any power purchase agreements with wind power outfits, since about November … Continue reading Australian Power Retailers Snub Wind & Turn to the Sun

Labor to Throw $200bn to the Wind: Electricity Bill Shorten’s Economic Suicide Pact Unpacked

**** In the cutting British satire, Extras, the hapless Andy Millman (Ricky Gervais) is always foiled by his gormless but lovable side-kick, Maggie Jacobs (Ashley Jensen). Maggie, when she’s not inadvertently ruining Andy’s romantic hopes and/or acting career prospects, poses puzzling rhetoricals such as “would you rather be trampled by elephants or eaten by lions?” … Continue reading Labor to Throw $200bn to the Wind: Electricity Bill Shorten’s Economic Suicide Pact Unpacked

‘Follow the Money’: Hard-Hitting Danish Drama Documents Wind Industry Corruption, Australian Sequel Promised

STT has just gorged on two episodes of what is presented as well crafted drama, but which to STT followers will play out like a hard-hitting documentary. Australia’s SBS started screening ‘Follow the Money’ a couple of weeks ago, the plot-line for Episode 1 is described as follows: Mads, a police detective, is called out … Continue reading ‘Follow the Money’: Hard-Hitting Danish Drama Documents Wind Industry Corruption, Australian Sequel Promised

Wind Industry Corruption in NSW: Maurice Newman Lifts the Lid

Maurice Newman was the former head of Deutsche Bank, the ABC and ASX so you’d think he might know a thing or two about economics and business. Maurice doesn’t mince his words about these things: calling wind power “a crime against the people” (see our post here). Maurice has also previously made the connection between … Continue reading Wind Industry Corruption in NSW: Maurice Newman Lifts the Lid

South Australia – Wind Powered Train Wreck: Power Supply Chaos Strands Thousands of Commuters

South Australia's wind powered economy is a picture of reliability (see above and below). In its capital, Adelaide, for 2 days in row (28 and 29 April) thousands of hopeful commuters were left to their own devices, as wild variations in wind power output wrecked the power supply to its Seaford/Tonsley electric train line. We'll … Continue reading South Australia – Wind Powered Train Wreck: Power Supply Chaos Strands Thousands of Commuters