*** The political climate surrounding energy policy in Australia is febrile. However, nervous and feverish excitement is hardly conducive to sensible solutions. Bill Shorten’s Labor opposition is turning itself inside out as it struggles to come to grips with the political punishment that will be meted out by voters who have already worked out that … Continue reading Chaotic Wind Power Shunned: Coalition to Use ‘Green’ Slush Fund to Build Coal-Fired Power Plants
Category: Australia
Wind Power Disaster Means South Australian Labor Government ‘Gone with the Wind’
*** While the power pricing and supply calamity that is South Australia is down to the subsidies awarded to wind power under the Federal government's Large-Scale RET, the state Labor government has done plenty to create the unfolding disaster and nothing to mitigate it. It's vapid Premier, Jay Weatherill must know that, as a wind … Continue reading Wind Power Disaster Means South Australian Labor Government ‘Gone with the Wind’
Australia’s Renewable Policy Doomed as Labor Party Scuttles Away from Suicidal 50% RET
*** Former union bully boy and billionaire wannabe, Labor opposition leader, Bill Shorten is all over the shop on energy policy. Terrified witless of the lunatic left and the Greens who, like the tail that wags the dog, have driven the Australian Labor Party into a suicidal push for a 50% RET, Shorten has taken … Continue reading Australia’s Renewable Policy Doomed as Labor Party Scuttles Away from Suicidal 50% RET
Political ‘System Black’: South Australia’s Wind Power Debacle Turns Renewable Policy Toxic
*** Politics is a cruel game, at the best of times. But Australia's renewable energy debacle is testing the wits of even the brightest of our political betters. The political graveyard is littered with those brave and foolhardy enough to ignore the average voting punter; recent interments include Hillary Clinton, buried in a landslide of … Continue reading Political ‘System Black’: South Australia’s Wind Power Debacle Turns Renewable Policy Toxic
South Australia’s Wind Power Debacle: Supermarkets Sacking Staff, While Sales of Portable Generators Boom
Reliable, secure and affordable electricity is one of those things that the last few generations of Australians have largely taken for granted. Not so in Australia’s so-called ‘wind power capital’, South Australia. These days, Croweaters count their blessings if power is delivered at all and count their pennies every time they’re hit with a power … Continue reading South Australia’s Wind Power Debacle: Supermarkets Sacking Staff, While Sales of Portable Generators Boom
Coalition’s Contempt: Senators Slam Pathetic & Belated Response to Wind Farm Inquiry
STT followers will well remember the efforts made by a band of Federal Senators to lift the lid on Australia’s wind industry. Starting back in April 2015, those Senators spent almost 6 months, attended 8 hearings in 4 States and the ACT, heard from dozens of witnesses and received almost 500 submissions, before producing their … Continue reading Coalition’s Contempt: Senators Slam Pathetic & Belated Response to Wind Farm Inquiry
How Subsidised Wind Power Destroyed South Australia’s Once Reliable & Affordable Power Supply
*** Another day, another total wind power output collapse, another statewide blackout. Sure the political spin doctors called it ‘load shedding’, but for the 90,000 families left boiling in the dark, watching their perishables perish the result is precisely the same. The wind cult and its fellow travellers descended into apoplexy, when conventional generators failed … Continue reading How Subsidised Wind Power Destroyed South Australia’s Once Reliable & Affordable Power Supply
To End Australia’s Wind Power ‘Horror Show’, Turnbull Must Scrap the RET Right Now
*** As modern Hollywood 'gangstas' often remonstrate with their fellow 'homies' - when the LAPD appears in numbers, out of nowhere and hot lead starts flying - ‘this shit just got real’. With South Australians baying for political blood - after yet another wind power output collapse knocked out SA’s wholly weather-dependant power supply - … Continue reading To End Australia’s Wind Power ‘Horror Show’, Turnbull Must Scrap the RET Right Now
When Will Josh Frydenberg Stop Lying About the Federal Government’s $40bn RET?
*** Blame shifting and buck-passing have become the national political sport. Lying and obfuscation are, of course, essential prerequisites for those moving up the political ladder. However, the brazenness with which Australia’s Energy and Environment Minister, Josh Frydenberg engages in political ‘craft’ is breathtaking. In a week where South Australia saw 90,000 homes chopped from … Continue reading When Will Josh Frydenberg Stop Lying About the Federal Government’s $40bn RET?
Australia’s Renewable Energy Target Already Costing $3 billion a Year, with Much Worse to Come
*** With fear, loathing and recriminations playing out in Canberra about South Australia’s electricity debacle and the skyrocketing power prices mass blackouts and routine load shedding its obsession with wind power has delivered, Sabine Schnittger and Brian Fisher of BAEconomics have thrown the spotlight back on the Federal government’s family, job, growth and business killer: … Continue reading Australia’s Renewable Energy Target Already Costing $3 billion a Year, with Much Worse to Come
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