When it comes to assessing the costs, risks and benefits of environmental policy Bjørn Lomborg has always tried to provide balanced, detailed analysis supported by facts and evidence. The economic choices we make – about allocating scarce resources to unlimited wants – should – as Lomborg consistently points out – be made taking into account … Continue reading Bjørn Lomborg: Wind Power – The Rich Man’s Curse on the Poor
Category: Australia
Moyne Shire Council Rubberstamps AGL’s Macarthur Wind Farm Noisewash
**** The nightmare that is AGL’s Macarthur wind farm began operating in October 2012 – the first 30 fired up then. All 140 giant 3MW Vestas V112s kicked into gear in about February 2013. Ever since, the locals have been driven absolutely insane with incessant low-frequency noise and infra-sound. AGL (aka “Australia’s Greatest Liars”) have … Continue reading Moyne Shire Council Rubberstamps AGL’s Macarthur Wind Farm Noisewash
Pac Hydro’s Wind Farm: How the Mandatory RET Destroyed Cape Bridgewater
As STT followers are well aware, the mandatory Renewable Energy Target and the Renewable Energy Certificates issued to wind power generators under it amount to a Federal Tax on all Australian power consumers. The value of the REC Tax is then transferred to wind power outfits – like Union Super Fund backed, Pacific Hydro – … Continue reading Pac Hydro’s Wind Farm: How the Mandatory RET Destroyed Cape Bridgewater
Bird Carcass Count proves AGL’s Macarthur Wind Farm is an Avian Slaughterhouse
**** Wind farm turbines take toll on birds of prey The Australian Graham Lloyd 22 September 2014 EAGLES, falcons and other raptors make up to a third of the estimated 1500 birds killed each year at Australia’s biggest wind farm. The finding of an independent report for Macarthur Wind Farm operator AGL follows 12 monthly … Continue reading Bird Carcass Count proves AGL’s Macarthur Wind Farm is an Avian Slaughterhouse
Senator David Leyonhjelm on Australia’s Energy Future
Senator David Leyonhjelm is one of the 8 cross-benchers capable of turning Australia’s disastrous energy policy around during the life of this Parliament. He’s already come out swinging with a superbly crafted attack on the debacle that is the mandatory Renewable Energy Target which featured in The Australian a little while back (see our post … Continue reading Senator David Leyonhjelm on Australia’s Energy Future
Labor Out to Kill Australia’s Manufacturers & Mineral Processors
Back in December last year we looked at how South Australia went from economic zero to economic hero during the 1950s and 1960s – with the help of a pragmatic Adelaide Hills farmer, Sir Tom Playford (see our post here). Tom created a manufacturing and industrial investment paradise – principally by making cheap and reliable … Continue reading Labor Out to Kill Australia’s Manufacturers & Mineral Processors
It’s the Poor Who Suffer Most from the Great Wind Power Fraud
**** In a number of posts we've covered Bjørn Lomborg's critical analysis of how runaway renewables policies - and the spiralling power costs they cause - are having a devastating (and disproportionate) impact on the poorest in developed economies - and how they threaten to lock the poorest billion or so of our planet's inhabitants … Continue reading It’s the Poor Who Suffer Most from the Great Wind Power Fraud
How to Fight the Great Wind Power Fraud
In this post we documented over 2,000 Anti-Wind Power Fraud groups operating world-wide, fighting to protect their homes, farms, families and communities from being overrun and destroyed by giant industrial wind turbines. The battles being waged have a common enemy, but the tactics and strategies employed are diverse – and, unfortunately, in some cases play … Continue reading How to Fight the Great Wind Power Fraud
The Wind Industry’s Worst Nightmare – Angus Taylor – says: time to kill the LRET
**** Member for Hume, Angus "the Enforcer" Taylor has taken the lead on behalf of the Coalition in Tony Abbott's quest to bring the wind industry to its knees. While there's been a lot of huff and puff emanating from energy dimwits, Ian "Macca" Macfarlane and his youthful ward, Gregory Hunt about saving the mandatory … Continue reading The Wind Industry’s Worst Nightmare – Angus Taylor – says: time to kill the LRET
Terry McCrann: The Answer to Our Energy Future Ain’t Wind Power
Answer ain’t blowing in the wind Terry McCrann The Australian 13 September 2014 IT’S doubtful that those who have attacked Dick Warburton’s review of the Renewable Energy Target have actually read even the executive summary, other than through a misty film of increasingly foam-flecked rage or rising horror at the prospect of the cookie jar … Continue reading Terry McCrann: The Answer to Our Energy Future Ain’t Wind Power
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