*** 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
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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
South Australia Powerless (Again): Sudden 1,000MW Wind Power Output Collapse Leaves 90,000 Families Boiling in the Dark
‘Smug’: adjective - having or showing an excessive pride in oneself or one's achievements. Eg, “he was feeling smug after his win”. synonyms: self-satisfied, complacent, self-congratulatory, superior, puffed up, pleased with oneself, self-approving, well pleased, proud of oneself. Yes, that’s STT: but our sense of self-satisfaction is not gleeful. STT has been spelling out the … Continue reading South Australia Powerless (Again): Sudden 1,000MW Wind Power Output Collapse Leaves 90,000 Families Boiling in the Dark
Memo to Malcolm: Scrap Australia’s Renewable Energy Target & Collect a Free Political Gift
Malcolm Turnbull is a Prime Minister who has attempted to please everyone and thereby proved the adage that by doing so you end up pleasing no one at all. Conservatives within his own party fulminate every time Malcolm takes to the stump and delivers sops designed to appease inner-city hipsters: his past and plentiful platitudes … Continue reading Memo to Malcolm: Scrap Australia’s Renewable Energy Target & Collect a Free Political Gift
Wind Power Subsidies Become Turnbull’s Worst Political Nightmare: Australia’s RET Must Go Now
*** At the risk of sounding like a broken record - or for the younger generation a stuttering CD or a corrupted MP3 file - STT has said it before and will keep saying it: any policy which is unsustainable will fail, crushed by its own imponderable weight or ignominiously scrapped by those who created … Continue reading Wind Power Subsidies Become Turnbull’s Worst Political Nightmare: Australia’s RET Must Go Now
Turnbull Turns: Australia’s Federal Government Backs HELE Coal-Fired Power Plants
*** Australia’s Federal government is led by the patrician and aloof, Malcolm Turnbull. A former investment banker and, before that, trusted Consigliere to media heavyweight, the late Kerry Packer, Turnbull is grappling with a renewable energy target that is set to destroy once profitable and productive Australian businesses and punish Australian families for generations to … Continue reading Turnbull Turns: Australia’s Federal Government Backs HELE Coal-Fired Power Plants
Wind Power Wilts: Brewing Voter Fury Means Coal-Power Set to Drive Australia’s Fossil Fuelled Renaissance
*** In 2016 no two words struck more fear into the hearts of the city-bound, political elite than ‘Trump’ and ‘Brexit’. In both instances, ignorance amongst the media and political class meant that - for them - what were predictable, if not inevitable, results came as visceral, gut-wrenching, bewildering shocks. If there is a single … Continue reading Wind Power Wilts: Brewing Voter Fury Means Coal-Power Set to Drive Australia’s Fossil Fuelled Renaissance
Australia’s Energy Debacle: Politicians Fiddle While Rome Burns
*** Alan Moran needs no intro to STT followers. Here he gives the morally bankrupt idiots that pretend to govern us a well-deserved spray, over the energy debacle that has turned Australia - once an energy power house - into an international joke. Trump and Australian political dithering over energy costs Catallaxy Files Alan Moran … Continue reading Australia’s Energy Debacle: Politicians Fiddle While Rome Burns
SA’s Wind Power Debacle: AEMO Cuts SA’s Access to Victorian Power to Protect the Grid
SA’s plan to import electricity from Victoria a threat to stability: AEMO The Australian Michael Owen 21 January 2017 A plan for South Australia to import more baseload power from Victoria to ease its power crisis has been suspended by the national electricity market operator because of a “potential stability issue” linked to the state’s … Continue reading SA’s Wind Power Debacle: AEMO Cuts SA’s Access to Victorian Power to Protect the Grid
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