There are good deals, there are bad deals and there are disastrous deals. For Australia the Paris Climate ‘deal’ is a monstrous disaster. The realisation that an energy superpower found itself enmeshed in what is - for all intents and purposes - an international suicide pact, has just hit home. The only justification (if it … Continue reading RE Madness Must End Now: Tony Abbott Calls Time-Out on Economy-Wrecking Paris Climate ‘Deal’
Category: Australia’s renewable energy target
Subsidised Wind Power: An International Crime Against Common Sense
Two necessary ingredients of the great wind power fraud are a gullible public and a troupe of pliant politicians. A decade from now - as these things either self-destruct, collapse or quietly rust into oblivion - the MPs that enabled the greatest economic and environmental fraud in history, will not be thanked. Nor will … Continue reading Subsidised Wind Power: An International Crime Against Common Sense
Energy Minister Delivers National Suicide Note: NEG Spells Doom For Cheap & Reliable Power
Coal powers Queensland and its electricity is the cheapest in the nation. Wind and solar power South Australia, and its power is the most expensive in the world. Australia’s energy Minister, Josh Frydenberg is either deluded or lying, when he says that power prices are already on a steady descent. Power costs to business have … Continue reading Energy Minister Delivers National Suicide Note: NEG Spells Doom For Cheap & Reliable Power
Mission Possible: Runaway Renewable Energy Policy = Australia’s Economic Suicide Pact
It’s possible to turn an energy superpower into an economic disaster: Australia did it in less than a decade. Its energy policy was hijacked by eco-zealots and handed to wind and solar rent-seekers, on a platter. A combination of witless and corrupt politicians meant that the mission was accomplished with the sort of split-second timing … Continue reading Mission Possible: Runaway Renewable Energy Policy = Australia’s Economic Suicide Pact
Renewable Energy Debacle Deepens: Chaotic & Costly Power Destroying Australian Industry
Australian is set to cross the Rubicon: following the path to Nirvana promised by renewable energy zealots, means inevitable economic and social oblivion. As the country continues pouring billions of dollars into the unreliables - wind and solar - power prices will continue to rocket out of control. And, even if an industrial or … Continue reading Renewable Energy Debacle Deepens: Chaotic & Costly Power Destroying Australian Industry
Frydenberg Foiled: Nationals Kill-Off Energy Minister’s National Energy Guarantee
Panic-stricken Liberal and National MPs have killed-off the proposed National Energy Guarantee at birth. Federal Energy Minister, Josh Frydenberg presented a version of the NEG which simply expands the Federal government’s Large-Scale Renewable Energy Target and pushes its operation over the horizon. The model being touted was written by eco-zealots at the direction of … Continue reading Frydenberg Foiled: Nationals Kill-Off Energy Minister’s National Energy Guarantee
National Energy Guarantee: Means Guaranteed Economic Destruction
Renewable energy rent-seekers hijacked the proposed National Energy Guarantee in order to ensure their subsidy-soaked futures. The reliability obligation - which would have guaranteed electricity to all power consumers during any worst-case scenario (eg, the height of summer when air-conditioners are running flat out and breathless weather means wind turbines are flat out producing anything … Continue reading National Energy Guarantee: Means Guaranteed Economic Destruction
If Australians Want Reliable & Affordable Electricity: It’s Coal-Fired Power or Nothing
The debate surrounding Australia’s energy crisis is occupied by two camps: deluded zealots and pragmatic realists. STT sits with the latter: we couldn’t care less whether electricity was generated using doggie doo, provided it’s available and affordable, to all-comers. Australia, as the world’s third largest exporter of uranium, ought to be throwing its money and … Continue reading If Australians Want Reliable & Affordable Electricity: It’s Coal-Fired Power or Nothing
War For Australian Business & Families Begins: Government Splits Over Renewable Energy Disaster
Subsidised wind and solar sent Australian power prices through the roof punishing households, threatening businesses and whole industries, without respite. The battle of Australia is about to begin. Upon this battle depends the survival of civilisation as we’ve known it. What follows is a battle for this Country’s very economic future and the social … Continue reading War For Australian Business & Families Begins: Government Splits Over Renewable Energy Disaster
Liberal MPs Demand End to Australia’s Economy-Wrecking, Hidden $60bn Federal Power Tax
Already suffering the world’s highest power prices, Australian power consumers have watched prices jump by anything up to 28% in 12 months. The greatest increases occurred, funnily enough, in the all-renewable obsessed Australia Capital Territory, home to the Australian Federal Parliament in Canberra. The ACT entered power purchase agreements to buy wind power generated (occasionally) … Continue reading Liberal MPs Demand End to Australia’s Economy-Wrecking, Hidden $60bn Federal Power Tax