Corporate call for Clive Palmer to retreat on Renewable Energy Target Sid Maher The Austrlian 25 July 2014 CLIVE Palmer faces pressure to allow changes to the Renewable Energy Target after business groups released modelling showing the existing scheme will drive up power prices by $49 a year per household over the next decade and … Continue reading Business Calls for RET Retreat to Save Real Jobs
Category: Australia
When the Wind Doesn’t Blow…NO POWER!
Terry McCran writes about the stupidity of intermittent power output from wind farms in Australia looking at July 21. Truth is July 22 was worse. When the wind doesn’t blow, the power doesn’t switch on Terry McCrann Herald Sun 22 July 2014 ON Monday, all the wind farms in Southern Australia, all the hundreds of … Continue reading When the Wind Doesn’t Blow…NO POWER!
Bjørn Lomborg: Wind Power is a Vanity Project
*** 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 … Continue reading Bjørn Lomborg: Wind Power is a Vanity Project
Battle for Mount Emerald Reaches Boiling Point
The battle to prevent RATCH from getting planning approval for the disaster it proposes for Mount Emerald has reached fever pitch. With 90% of locals bitterly opposed to the project, common sense would suggest a polite withdrawal by the developer. Instead, however, RATCH has dipped into the standard book of wind industry lies and half-truths … Continue reading Battle for Mount Emerald Reaches Boiling Point
Carbon Tax Gone – RET to Follow
Australia has started to dismantle the 'green' policies that have sabotaged its economy and fuelled the wind turbine industry - all with no perceivable environmental benefit - yet generating widespread annoyance across rural Australia. The first to go was the Carbon Tax - which Tory Aardvark has described so well in his post below - … Continue reading Carbon Tax Gone – RET to Follow
Time to Kill the Mandatory RET & Bring Power Prices Back to Earth
Abbott must keep calm and cut power prices The Australian Gary Johns 15 July 2014 THE British government in 1939 created the phrase “Keep Calm and Carry On” to prepare Brits for German attacks during World War II. The Abbott government should adopt it, and take heart. Of course, the slogan belied the preparedness to … Continue reading Time to Kill the Mandatory RET & Bring Power Prices Back to Earth
Burchell Wilson: Sectors Should Join to Beat the RET
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
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.
