*** No other two word combination strikes more fear into the hearts of the wind industry and its political backers than 'South Australia'. Rocketing power prices, routine load shedding and mass blackouts are the inevitable results of South Australia's wind power experiment. Tom Quirk trained as a nuclear physicist at the University of Melbourne. He … Continue reading ‘System Black’: South Australia’s Wind Power Experiment a Costly, Abject Failure
Category: Australia’s renewable energy target
SA’s Deluded Labor Government Determined to Kill Jobs with 50% Renewable Energy Target
*** In a week when Coca-Cola Amatil announced that it would close its Adelaide bottling plant with the loss of 200 jobs, one might have reasonably expected South Australia's hapless Labor government to have taken the opportunity to retreat from its disastrous energy policy. To the contrary, Jay Weatherill & Co sought to double down … Continue reading SA’s Deluded Labor Government Determined to Kill Jobs with 50% Renewable Energy Target
One Nation Looms: Federal Coalition Must Scrap the RET to Avoid Drifting to Defeat
*** In September 2015, Malcolm Turnbull drew the political dagger and thrust it into a sitting Prime Minister, Tony Abbott. There are plenty in the Liberal party that will never forgive Turnbull for his treachery, but there are legions more among the Australian voting public still ready to exact revenge. Last week Tony Abbott appeared … Continue reading One Nation Looms: Federal Coalition Must Scrap the RET to Avoid Drifting to Defeat
Power & Politics: Coca Cola Abandons South Australia to Escape Crippling Power Prices & Chaotic Supply
*** In Australia's, so-called 'wind power capital', South Australia, meaningful and lasting employment is a rare and beautiful thing. Last week, Coca-Cola Amatil announced that it is shutting its Adelaide bottling plant, which has delivered the 'real thing' to South Australians since 1939. The loss of around 200 jobs in the economic basket case that … Continue reading Power & Politics: Coca Cola Abandons South Australia to Escape Crippling Power Prices & Chaotic Supply
Chaotic Wind Power Shunned: Coalition to Use ‘Green’ Slush Fund to Build Coal-Fired Power Plants
*** 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
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
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