**** Competitive structure best way to rein in costs The Australian Barry FitzGerald 20 August 2014 IT is a touch ironic that it has taken the abolition of the carbon tax to highlight just what a pernicious bit of work it was. More than even Tony Abbott’s labelling of it as a big, bad tax. … Continue reading Australia’s Runaway Renewables Policy to Cost $Billions
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Senator Matt Canavan: mandatory RET is an Enormous Wind Industry Protection Racket
**** With news that Tony Abbott, Joe Hockey and Mathias Cormann have teamed up to axe the mandatory RET (see our post here), the wind industry and its parasites have been reduced to a pitiful spectacle: drifting between pleading and begging for mercy, on the one hand, and foaming rage, on the other. These desperados … Continue reading Senator Matt Canavan: mandatory RET is an Enormous Wind Industry Protection Racket
ABC’s Pro-Wind Industry Bias Exposed as a National Scandal
**** Ever had the feeling that certain quarters of the media give the wind industry an easy run? Australia’s National broad-sheet, The Australian stands as an exception; publishing plenty of pieces that, quite rightly, highlight the obscene cost and spurious “benefits” of the mandatory Renewable Energy Target and its product: the wind industry (for just … Continue reading ABC’s Pro-Wind Industry Bias Exposed as a National Scandal
Tony Abbott, Joe Hockey & Mathias Cormann: Natural Born RET Killers
**** Tony Abbott has made no secret of his eagerness to do away with the most colossal corporate welfare scheme in the history of the Commonwealth (see our posts here and here and here). And his Treasurer, Joe Hockey has pinned his colours to the mast as someone who can’t stand wind farms - and … Continue reading Tony Abbott, Joe Hockey & Mathias Cormann: Natural Born RET Killers
European Governments Rip Up Wind Power Contracts
**** In recent weeks there has been a cacophony of wind industry rent-seeker bleating. Turbine makers, like America's GE have been running hard in the press touting the "merits" of retaining the mandatory Renewable Energy Target - a scheme that will see $50 billion added to Australian power bills and directed to wind power outfits … Continue reading European Governments Rip Up Wind Power Contracts
How Much CO2 Gets Emitted to Build a Wind Turbine?
The ONLY justification for wind power – the massive subsidies upon which it entirely depends (see our post here); spiralling power prices (see our post here); and the suffering caused to neighbours by incessant low-frequency noise and infrasound (see our post here) - is the claim that it reduces CO2 emissions in the electricity … Continue reading How Much CO2 Gets Emitted to Build a Wind Turbine?
Victorian Planning Department involved in Waubra Wind Farm Non-Compliance Cover Up
**** The unseemly links between the wind industry and Victoria's Department of Planning (DPCD) were laid bare by Senator John "Marshall" Madigan back in December last year (see our post here). The relationship has seen the DPCD do the wind industry's bidding at every turn: lying about non-compliance with noise conditions of planning consents and, … Continue reading Victorian Planning Department involved in Waubra Wind Farm Non-Compliance Cover Up
Community Opposition to Wind Farms Grows Because Wind Power is a Fraud
As community and political opposition to the great wind power fraud rolls and builds across the world, the charge that opponents are red-necked climate change deniers, infected with a dose of Not In My Backyard syndrome, starts to ring hollow. Surely that charge can’t stick to each and every one of the 1,000 who signed … Continue reading Community Opposition to Wind Farms Grows Because Wind Power is a Fraud
NSW Planning Department Helps Wind Farm Developers Rig Community “Consultations”
As community hostility to wind farm plans erupts across the Southern Tablelands of NSW, wind power outfits have taken to sacking and stacking committees to ensure the “process” of “community consultation” is little more than high farce. Spanish outfit, Union Fenosa didn’t like the prospect of having Tony Abbott’s key business adviser, Maurice Newman challenge … Continue reading NSW Planning Department Helps Wind Farm Developers Rig Community “Consultations”
1,000 Sign Petition Against Mt Emerald Wind Farm: Survey says 92% Opposed
The battle to prevent RATCH from getting planning approval for the disaster it proposes for Mount Emerald has reached fever pitch (see our post here). Furious locals have produced a community petition and survey that shows the depth of opposition to the project and the manner in which the developer has ridden roughshod over a … Continue reading 1,000 Sign Petition Against Mt Emerald Wind Farm: Survey says 92% Opposed
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