*** 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
Category: Australia
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
Australia’s Energy Debacle Unplugged: Liberal Senator Chris Back Slams Wind Power
There are very few Australian politicians who have bothered to do the slightest bit of homework on Australia's energy policy, and even fewer still have taken the time to understand how Australia's ridiculous renewable energy targets have destroyed once reliable grids and driven power prices through the roof. One who has managed to get to … Continue reading Australia’s Energy Debacle Unplugged: Liberal Senator Chris Back Slams Wind Power
Australia’s Renewable Target in Tatters: Major Retailers Shun Wind & Solar, Electing to Pay $Millions in Retail Power Fines Instead
*** In the week just gone, yet another of STT’s predictions unfolded, with devastating consequences for Australia’s Large-Scale RET and the remnants of a battered and beleaguered wind industry. The LRET was slashed in 2015 simply to avoid the political embarrassment of having too little eligible renewable power dispatched to satisfy the 41,000 GWh target … Continue reading Australia’s Renewable Target in Tatters: Major Retailers Shun Wind & Solar, Electing to Pay $Millions in Retail Power Fines Instead
Wind Power Insanity: Queensland Labor’s Renewable Policy Off the Wall
*** As if the example set by South Australia's disastrous attempt to run on sunshine and breezes could somehow be avoided, Labor Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk is hell-bent on following SA back to the Dark Ages. The Queensland government is packed with wannabe wind cultists (Queensland has only a couple of tiny wind farms to its … Continue reading Wind Power Insanity: Queensland Labor’s Renewable Policy Off the Wall
Wind Power Setting the World on Fire: Infigen Sparks Devastating NSW Bushfire
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
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
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