Burchell Wilson holds the chief economist role at the Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry. He's been on the front foot for some time now, seeking the abolition of the mandatory RET - which he sees as "corporate welfare on a massive scale". Here's Burchell unloading in today's Australian. Sectors should join to beat … Continue reading Burchell Wilson: Sectors Should Join to Beat the RET
Category: Australia
Mandatory RET Threatens Jobs & Australian Energy Security
The mandatory RET not only threatens thousands of real jobs, it's threatening Australia's energy security. The perverse market distortion created by the RET allows wind power outfits to dump electricity at prices approaching zero, on those occasions when the wind is blowing (see our post here). The result being that incumbent generators are precluded from … Continue reading Mandatory RET Threatens Jobs & Australian Energy Security
Jennifer Westacott: Time to End Poorly-Designed Energy Policy
Jennifer Westacott is the chief executive of the Business Council of Australia and has extensive policy experience in both the public and private sectors. She has occupied critical leadership positions in the New South Wales and Victorian governments. This weekend she wrote in The Australian about the devastating impact of poorly-designed energy policy on businesses and energy consumers - and the necessity … Continue reading Jennifer Westacott: Time to End Poorly-Designed Energy Policy
Bjørn Lomborg: Want to Save the Planet? It’s a Gas.
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: Want to Save the Planet? It’s a Gas.
The Tangled Web: John Madigan Exposes the Greens as a Paid-Up Wind Industry Front
The good Senator from Victoria, John “Marshall” Madigan is on fire. Having skewered the former tobacco advertising guru - who claims to be an “expert” on well, just about everything (see our post here) - the Marshall has just launched an Exocet missile at the seedy world of hard-green-left politics and the big corporate interests … Continue reading The Tangled Web: John Madigan Exposes the Greens as a Paid-Up Wind Industry Front
Senator Chris Back: Time to Kill the Mandatory RET
**** WA Liberal Senator, Chris Back launched a stinging attack on the wind industry during a speech in the Federal Senate, yesterday. Responding to a cacophony of wind industry rent seeker bleating, Chris has smashed headlong into three of the wind industry’s greatest myths. The first is that any alteration to the mandatory Renewable Energy … Continue reading Senator Chris Back: Time to Kill the Mandatory RET
UK’s Wind Industry Buys British Medical Association; Aims to Silence Medicos
In an all too familiar tale, the British Medical Association has been co-opted by the wind industry and is now just another advocate for the great wind power fraud. The same has happened in Australia with the: Australian Medical Association (see our posts here and here and here and here); Public Health Association; (see our … Continue reading UK’s Wind Industry Buys British Medical Association; Aims to Silence Medicos
Angus Taylor Joins the Wind Farm Rumble to Save Rugby & Rye Park
A little while back, in covering what "community division" caused by wind farms really means, we touched on a developer's "community consultation" that took place at Rye Park (near Goulburn) in NSW (see our post here). The “community consultation” in question was held by Epuron – an outfit hoping to develop what it calls the … Continue reading Angus Taylor Joins the Wind Farm Rumble to Save Rugby & Rye Park
Tony Abbott: RET a Threat to Jobs in All Industries (not just Aluminum Smelters)
**** Over the last week or two the press has been giving a fair bit of coverage to the fact that there are 25 Coalition Members who are trying to find a “Goldilocks solution” to the disaster that is the mandatory Renewable Energy Target. The group - which is being directed by Ian “Macca” Macfarlane … Continue reading Tony Abbott: RET a Threat to Jobs in All Industries (not just Aluminum Smelters)
Renegade PUP – Jacqui Lambie – Heralds Demise of the Mandatory RET
The credibility of any political party pronouncing any policy position is directly proportional to the unity demonstrated by elected members within that party: Politics 101. Barely a week has passed since big Clive Palmer announced that his Palmer United Party (PUP) would use its balance of power in the Senate to block any changes whatsoever … Continue reading Renegade PUP – Jacqui Lambie – Heralds Demise of the Mandatory RET
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