**** Subsidy won't generate target Australian Financial Review Ben Potter 10 March 2016 Less than a 10th of the wind and solar generation capacity required by the renewable energy target this decade is under construction, which could force the Turnbull government to renegotiate the controversial scheme with the opposition. Significant shortfalls under the cross-subsidy scheme … Continue reading Australia’s Wind Industry Under Siege: LRET Subsidy Set to be Slashed (Again)
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Farmers ‘Hosting’ Wind Turbines Face Massive Clean Up Bills & Other Legal Liability
When the wind industry fiasco inevitably grinds to a halt sometime in the next decade, those that entertained it – be it dimwitted farmers who traded 30 pieces of silver to destroy their communities or the local governments that rubber stamped the DAs that permitted it – are going to be left with a monumental clean … Continue reading Farmers ‘Hosting’ Wind Turbines Face Massive Clean Up Bills & Other Legal Liability
Wind Power Costs Crushing South Australian Businesses: Firms Hit with 90% Price Hike
**** South Australia embarked upon its wind power 'experiment' more than 15 years ago, when its Labor government climbed into bed with the boys from Babcock & Brown (aka Infigen) and a disgraced American lawyer and convicted con-man, Tim Flato (who robbed his clients of close to US$400,000, got struck-off, and scuttled off to set … Continue reading Wind Power Costs Crushing South Australian Businesses: Firms Hit with 90% Price Hike
Why Squander $Billions on Wind Power? If CO2 is the Threat, Nukes is the Answer
How to squander ₤4 billion of other peoples’ money. **** If policy is driven by petulant, infantile ideology, instead of cool-headed economics, the result is, without exception, an unmitigated disaster. Here's a nice little wrap-up based on the latter policy approach, that unpicks the falsehoods of the former. (Guaranteed) power to the people Scientific … Continue reading Why Squander $Billions on Wind Power? If CO2 is the Threat, Nukes is the Answer
‘Saving’ South Australia from its Self-Inflicted Wind Power Disaster Needs $1 Billion Right NOW!
**** Wind and solar create headaches for energy market operator Australian Financial Review Mark Ludlow 19 February 2016 State governments may have to spend billions of dollars to duplicate the electricity network to cope with the unreliability of renewable energy sources such as wind and solar, according to the national energy forecaster. As the Australian … Continue reading ‘Saving’ South Australia from its Self-Inflicted Wind Power Disaster Needs $1 Billion Right NOW!
Rampant Wind Turbine Bird Slaughter Pushes Vulnerable Species to the Edge of Extinction
Centuries from now - archaeologists and palaeontologists will be sifting through what were communities of isolated-candle-lit hovels and find the remains of the 21st Century wind-worship-cult that ended up living in the Stone Age poverty that they were ready to foist upon everybody else. As they unravel the secrets of what led to the great … Continue reading Rampant Wind Turbine Bird Slaughter Pushes Vulnerable Species to the Edge of Extinction
South Australia’s Wind Farm Fiasco Heralds a Nuclear Powered Future
**** Earlier in the week, we detailed how South Australia’s wind farm fiasco has left its taxpayers on the hook for tens of $millions in subsidies, to be directed to the French owner of a mothballed Combined Cycle Gas Turbine power plant at Pelican Point, on the Lefevre Peninsula north-west of Adelaide. Not that its … Continue reading South Australia’s Wind Farm Fiasco Heralds a Nuclear Powered Future
How a Band of Criminals, Shysters & Chancers Conjured Up the Wind Industry in Australia
Now and again you just get lucky. STT makes no bones about its mission: to destroy the wind industry. So it was with more than just a little delight, that we received a bundle of highly incriminating documents from one of our top-level operatives. At the risk of sounding a little like the showboats behind … Continue reading How a Band of Criminals, Shysters & Chancers Conjured Up the Wind Industry in Australia
SA’s Wind Farm Fiasco: $Millions in Subsidies Thrown at GDF Suez to Reopen Mothballed Gas-Fired Power Plant
South Australia has the dubious honour of being referred to as “Australia’s wind farm capital”. That ‘accolade’ has brought with it rocketing power prices, an unstable grid and routine blackouts. As to the latter, South Australians are learning to live with daily ‘load-shedding’, that even its premier academic institutions have to suffer, along with thousands … Continue reading SA’s Wind Farm Fiasco: $Millions in Subsidies Thrown at GDF Suez to Reopen Mothballed Gas-Fired Power Plant
Wind Power Will Never Keep the Lights On: Propaganda Obscures Truth About Where Your Power Really Comes From
Claims and delivery are a gulf apart, when what's put up by the wind and solar crowd is measured up against the hard cold facts that reside in 'reality-land'. With every new wind farm proposal we're told how this operation would 'power' a hundred thousand homes (for 'free') - although these days it's a line … Continue reading Wind Power Will Never Keep the Lights On: Propaganda Obscures Truth About Where Your Power Really Comes From
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