On 17 January 2017, wind farm operator Infigen sparked a blaze that ripped across the southern Tablelands of NSW and destroyed 3,400 hectares (8,400 acres), hundreds of sheep and cattle, sheds and at least one home. STT's operatives in NSW have been on the scene, collecting photographs and speaking with local landowners about the cause … Continue reading Wind Power Setting the World on Fire: Infigen Sparks Devastating NSW Bushfire
Category: Australia
Wind Power Debacle: Retail Businesses Belted by South Australia’s Rocketing Power Prices
In 2002, then Labor Premier, Mike Rann hitched South Australia's wagon to wind power. 15 years later, his successors and former subjects get to reap what he sowed. A grid on the brink of collapse, routine load shedding and statewide blackouts have left South Australia an international laughing stock. Its vapid Premier, Jay Weatherill occupies … Continue reading Wind Power Debacle: Retail Businesses Belted by South Australia’s Rocketing Power Prices
Turnbull’s Reliable Power Play: Australian PM Pushes Coal-Fired Future
*** Patrician and aloof, Malcolm Turnbull is grappling with an energy debacle, that took root in South Australia (aka 'Australia's wind power capital') and, as a result of the Federal Large-Scale RET, threatens to burst the borders and destroy the entire Eastern Grid. Incidentally, geographically the single largest interconnected electricity grid on the planet. STT … Continue reading Turnbull’s Reliable Power Play: Australian PM Pushes Coal-Fired Future
It’s Time for Frydenberg & Turnbull to Come Clean on the Cost of Subsidised Wind Power
*** STT has a hard time working out whether Federal Energy & Environment Minister, Josh Frydenberg is simply thick, obtuse or knee-deep in the greatest government sanctioned rort of all time? Faced with a disintegrating electricity grid, skyrocketing power prices and a renewable energy policy on the brink of collapse, Frydenberg is playing political games, … Continue reading It’s Time for Frydenberg & Turnbull to Come Clean on the Cost of Subsidised Wind Power
Former Australian PM Tony Abbott Calls for a Moratorium on Wind Power Subsidies
*** Malcolm Turnbull did him in, on the night of the long knives. However, despite being relegated to the backbench, former PM, Tony Abbott will not be suppressed and he will not be silenced. At a time when the chatter at Australian barbecues is dominated by talk about rocketing power prices and the mass blackouts … Continue reading Former Australian PM Tony Abbott Calls for a Moratorium on Wind Power Subsidies
Wind Industry Armageddon: South Australian Blackouts Lead Australia’s Chief Scientist to Demand Immediate Cap on Wind Power
The fallout from South Australia's power pricing and supply debacle continues. Last year Australia's Chief Scientist, Alan Finkel was given the unenviable task of trying to keep Australia's lights on, despite the havoc caused by a weather dependent system abandoned centuries ago, for pretty obvious reasons. With repeated statewide blackouts and routine load shedding part … Continue reading Wind Industry Armageddon: South Australian Blackouts Lead Australia’s Chief Scientist to Demand Immediate Cap on Wind Power
Criminal Cost of Wind Power Hits Home: Australian Power Bills Soar
Energy bills soar in shift from coal power stations The Australian Kylar Loussikian 4 January 2017 Electricity companies have begun hiking consumer prices around the country, blaming the closure of coal-fired generators and the increased cost of renewable energy for higher-than-predicted increases of more than $130 this year. EnergyAustralia and AGL have increased electricity tariffs … Continue reading Criminal Cost of Wind Power Hits Home: Australian Power Bills Soar
Malicious Torture: Macarthur Wind Farm Neigbours Continue to Suffer, as AGL Dodges Damning Acoustic Evidence
The incessant turbine generated low-frequency noise and infrasound from AGL's Macarthur wind farm in western Victoria has been driving neighbours nuts or out of their homes since December 2012. Having been lied to and bullied for just as long, one of AGL's victims (and an STT Champion) Annie Gardner let rip with this stinging rebuke, … Continue reading Malicious Torture: Macarthur Wind Farm Neigbours Continue to Suffer, as AGL Dodges Damning Acoustic Evidence
The Criminal Cost of the Federal Government’s Obsession with Wind Power
*** Alan Moran needs no intro for STT followers. Here's another cracking piece, courtesy of Catallaxy Files Billions wasted in economy sapping energy regulations Catallaxy Files Alan Moran 16 December 2016 Each year the energy regulator, the Australian Energy Market Commission (AEMC), publishes data on the make-up of electricity costs for households. This breaks down … Continue reading The Criminal Cost of the Federal Government’s Obsession with Wind Power
Wind Power Costs Crushing Jobs & Workers: The Politics of Renewables Turns Toxic
*** 2016 was the year that Australia’s voting public turned on wind power with a vengeance. Once upon a time, we were treated to pumped up claims from wind industry spruikers, like the Clean Energy Council, yes2ruiningus and ruin-economy based on loaded ‘surveys’ that there were only two types of people: those already in love … Continue reading Wind Power Costs Crushing Jobs & Workers: The Politics of Renewables Turns Toxic
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