**** STT followers are painfully aware that the wind industry exists - and ONLY exists - to wallow in an endless stream of subsidies filched from power consumers and/or taxpayers: The Wind Industry: Always and Everywhere the Result of Massive & Endless Subsidies (Part 1) The Wind Industry: Always and Everywhere the Result of Massive … Continue reading Wind Industry Pockets Lion’s Share of Subsidies for Commercially Generated Power
Category: Australia
Lilli-Anne Green – no ‘Green’ Dupe – tells Senate: Wind Farm Health Impacts ‘Universal’
**** Following almost 6 months of solid graft, 8 hearings in 4 States and the ACT, dozens of witnesses and almost 500 submissions, the Senate Inquiry into the great wind power fraud delivered its ‘doorstop’ final report, which runs to some 350 pages – available here: Senate Report The first 200 pages are filled with … Continue reading Lilli-Anne Green – no ‘Green’ Dupe – tells Senate: Wind Farm Health Impacts ‘Universal’
The Wind Industry’s Days of ‘Wine & Roses’ are Over: Australian Senate says Massive Subsidies Should End
**** Renewable energy handouts winding down The Australian Graham Lloyd 6 August 2015 There is a real-world example of what can happen when subsidies are cut and greater scrutiny is applied to renewable energy projects, buried in the pages of the much maligned Senate committee report into wind turbines and health. In January 2012, following … Continue reading The Wind Industry’s Days of ‘Wine & Roses’ are Over: Australian Senate says Massive Subsidies Should End
Labor’s Renewable Target is Pure Insanity: the Coalition’s Target is Simply Madness
**** When Electricity Bill Shorten came out to announce Labor’s 50% renewable energy target, a couple of weeks back, Tony Abbott quite rightly jumped on it as an economy destroying policy, that would drive power prices through the roof; energy intensive businesses offshore; and households into a dim, dark electricity free future. And fair enough: … Continue reading Labor’s Renewable Target is Pure Insanity: the Coalition’s Target is Simply Madness
Australian Senate’s Recommendations to Curb the Wind Industry – Driven by Common Sense & Compassion
**** After almost 6 months, 8 hearings in 4 States and the ACT, dozens of witnesses and almost 500 submissions, the Senate Inquiry into the great wind power fraud has delivered its ‘doorstop’ final report, which runs to some 350 pages – available here: Senate Report The first 200 pages are filled with facts, clarity, … Continue reading Australian Senate’s Recommendations to Curb the Wind Industry – Driven by Common Sense & Compassion
South Australia’s Unbridled Wind Power Insanity: Wind Power Collapses see Spot Prices Rocket from $70 to $13,800 per MWh
**** To call what South Australia's Labor government has 'gifted' their constituents an energy 'policy', is to flatter it as involving some kind of genuine 'design'. It's an economic debacle, pure and simple. The current mess started under former Premier, Mike Rann - a former spin-doctor, whose relatives lined up at the wind power subsidy … Continue reading South Australia’s Unbridled Wind Power Insanity: Wind Power Collapses see Spot Prices Rocket from $70 to $13,800 per MWh
‘Silly’ Sarah Henderson joins ‘Disappointing’ Dan Tehan, as another ‘Green’ in Conservative Clothing
**** In recent weeks, with the wind industry copping it from all sides, the battle lines have been drawn, with politicians choosing sides. Although, not always the side one might expect. Old guard Labor men - like Gary Johns have rumbled the fraud: The Wind Industry’s “Fossil-Fuel-Free” Fantasy Scotched And the PM, Tony Abbott - … Continue reading ‘Silly’ Sarah Henderson joins ‘Disappointing’ Dan Tehan, as another ‘Green’ in Conservative Clothing
The Wind Industry: Always and Everywhere the Result of Massive & Endless Subsidies (Part 1)
**** In Australia, the wind industry exists - and ONLY exists - to wallow in a subsidy stream which will hit $3 billion annually in 2019; and continue at that colossal rate until 2031. The cost of the greatest subsidy rort in the history of the Commonwealth will exceed $45 billion - every last cent … Continue reading The Wind Industry: Always and Everywhere the Result of Massive & Endless Subsidies (Part 1)
Senate Recommendations Spell ‘DOOM’ for the Australian Wind Industry
**** The wind industry in Australia, already belted, battered and bruised, has just been delivered what STT considers the fatal blow. On Friday just gone, the front page of The Australian carried the headline “Call to curb wind subsidies” in an “exclusive” penned by STT Champion, Graham Lloyd - the full report appeared on page … Continue reading Senate Recommendations Spell ‘DOOM’ for the Australian Wind Industry
Rocketing Power Prices see Subsidies Slashed, Bringing Europe’s Wind Industry to its Knees
**** The Australian wind industry is copping a belting from all sides at the moment. With the Senate Inquiry about to release its final report on the great wind power fraud; retailers flatly refusing to enter long-term Power Purchase Agreements - essential to obtain finance for new wind farms; and with an increasing number of … Continue reading Rocketing Power Prices see Subsidies Slashed, Bringing Europe’s Wind Industry to its Knees
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