History will punish those who encouraged a bunch of rent-seeking psychopaths to destroy Western energy independence, peace and prosperity. Once upon a time in Australia soldiers, sheep-shearers, engineers and business leaders occupied the Treasury benches. These days it’s career politicians: Arts grads who started out as political advisers destined for a Parliament now dominated by … Continue reading Stop These Things’ Weekly Round Up: 3 May 2026
Category: Big wind industry
Stop These Things’ Weekly Round Up: 26 April 26
South Australia and South Africa share the same maniacal obsession with chaotically intermittent and heavily subsidised wind and solar. South Australia and South Africa also share the same crushing power prices that have destroyed industry and punish households and families. They also deliberately set out to destroy coal-fired power generation systems that had kept the … Continue reading Stop These Things’ Weekly Round Up: 26 April 26
Stop These Things’ Weekly Round Up: 19 April 26
For the best part of 30 years, rent-seeking wind and solar outfits have claimed their (occasionally delivered) products are the cheapest around. Always overlooking the hundreds of billions of dollars in subsidies and the benefits of punitive mandates and targets in their favour. However, whenever talk turns to cutting those subsidies or removing the mandates … Continue reading Stop These Things’ Weekly Round Up: 19 April 26
Stop These Things’ Weekly Round Up: 8 March 2026
Those few sorry souls still peddling the myth of the grand wind and solar ‘transition’ are either ignorant to the point of delusion or they’re in on it. In 2026, with electricity grids across the West being destroyed by suicidal so-called ‘energy policies’, neither can be forgiven for mere ineptitude or self-interested greed. Western civilisation … Continue reading Stop These Things’ Weekly Round Up: 8 March 2026
Stop These Things’ Weekly Round Up: 1 March 2026
Mandates, targets and subsidies to wind and solar have wrecked power markets, preventing nuclear power generation from doing what it does best: delivering safe, reliable and affordable power around-the-clock, whatever the weather. The wind and sun cult rant about the cost of nuclear, but avoid details the colossal pricetag of attempting to run on sunshine … Continue reading Stop These Things’ Weekly Round Up: 1 March 2026
Stop These Things’ Weekly Round Up: 1 February 2026
Every single country that embraced chaotically intermittent and heavily subsidised wind and solar is suffering from out-of-control power prices. No exceptions. Not one. The harder and faster they went, the more sudden the inevitable power pricing and supply calamity that follows. Germany, California, Denmark, South Australia are just the most obvious examples. Which brings us … Continue reading Stop These Things’ Weekly Round Up: 1 February 2026
Stop These Things’ Weekly Round Up: 11 January 2026
2026 will go down in history as the moment when sanity finally returned to energy policy across the globe. The big switch started in the USA, where the turnaround is being driven by a man who hates these things with a passion. The Germans and Danes led the charge with their suicidal subsidised wind and … Continue reading Stop These Things’ Weekly Round Up: 11 January 2026
Stop These Things’ Weekly Round Up: 13 July 2025
Any country that signed up to the subsidised wind and solar scam is facing the inevitable power pricing and supply calamity that follows. Now that they’re facing the inevitable backlash from taxpayers and power consumers (ie voters), many of those same countries are quietly crab walking away from the avoidable disasters they created. The outbreak … Continue reading Stop These Things’ Weekly Round Up: 13 July 2025
Stop These Things’ Weekly Round Up: 1 June 2025
The subsidised wind and solar chickens are coming home to roost - power prices are rocketing out of control in any jurisdiction attempting to run on sunshine and breezes. Adding mega-batteries only makes matters worse. With the ever-present threat of total blackouts, rent-seekers and their propaganda machines are still attempting to deflect and bury what … Continue reading Stop These Things’ Weekly Round Up: 1 June 2025
Stop These Things’ Weekly Round Up: 27 April 2025
The great wind and solar scam was founded on lies, built on myth and runs on subsidies. But with Donald J Trump in the White House the scale of the fraud is finally being revealed and his concerted attack on the wind industry has rattled its very foundations. Which brings us to the first of … Continue reading Stop These Things’ Weekly Round Up: 27 April 2025
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