*** To call what Australian politicians refer to as energy “policy” is to flatter it as involving some kind of deliberate design. As things have panned out in South Australia, and are fast panning out in neighbouring Victoria, there is only one fair description: “total chaos”. South Australia lost 784MW of reliable, affordable base-load power … Continue reading Australia’s Renewable Target Kills 2,000 Victorian Jobs at Hazelwood & Portland
Category: Big wind industry
REC Price Surge Signals Doom for Australia’s Renewable Target & its Wind Industry
When a policy is unsustainable its failure is inevitable: Australia’s Large-Scale Renewable Energy Target is just such a policy. STT has been spelling it out since December 2012. It was around then, when Australia’s commercial power retailers determined that there was no bankable certainty attached to the LRET; since then, no commercial retailer has entered … Continue reading REC Price Surge Signals Doom for Australia’s Renewable Target & its Wind Industry
US Study Finds Wind Farms Slaughtering Local & Migrating Eagles Alike
*** Wind turbines killing more than just local birds, study finds Purdue University Brian Wallheimer 28 September 2016 EST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - Wind turbines are known to kill large birds, such as golden eagles, that live nearby. Now there is evidence that birds from up to hundreds of miles away make up a significant portion … Continue reading US Study Finds Wind Farms Slaughtering Local & Migrating Eagles Alike
Germany’s €Trillion Euro Disaster: Wind Power ‘Transition’ Destroys its Industrial Heartland
STT has a ‘thing’ for the English language. In the hands of adept practitioners, our mother tongue is capable of conveying all manner of complex concepts and ideas, and doing so with verve and wit. However, in the hands of the well-paid spin doctors and useful political idiots that run with, and run cover for, … Continue reading Germany’s €Trillion Euro Disaster: Wind Power ‘Transition’ Destroys its Industrial Heartland
How South Australia’s Wind Power Obsession Sent Power Prices Rocketing & Killed Grid Reliability
*** For over 15 years, the Australian wind industry, its parasites and spruikers held up South Australia as the perfect example of what a wind powered future would look like: the economic basket case even earned the mantle of ‘Australia’s wind power capital’. Now that their dreams have become a daily South Australian nightmare, it’s … Continue reading How South Australia’s Wind Power Obsession Sent Power Prices Rocketing & Killed Grid Reliability
Alan Jones Slams Subsidised Wind Power & Dr Mariana Alves Pereira Slams Wind Industry’s ‘Nocebo’ Nonsense
STT champion, Alan Jones is absolutely on fire. Before kicking off an utterly brilliant interview with Dr Mariana Alves-Pereira, Alan rips into the Liberal Coalition’s Energy and Environment Minister, Josh Frydenberg. Frydenberg is juggling a politically poisoned chalice, overflowing with the voter backlash that’s brewing in South Australia - due to its wind powered pricing and … Continue reading Alan Jones Slams Subsidised Wind Power & Dr Mariana Alves Pereira Slams Wind Industry’s ‘Nocebo’ Nonsense
Wind Power – Guaranteed to Double Power Prices & Destroy Once Reliable Grids
The one thing that South Australia’s vapid Premier, Jay Weatherill and his hapless sidekick, Tom Koutsantonis can never complain about from here on is a lack of attention. South Australia’s internationally renowned power pricing and supply calamity is driven by a maniacal obsession with wind power. The circumstances that led to the events on 28 … Continue reading Wind Power – Guaranteed to Double Power Prices & Destroy Once Reliable Grids
Ontario’s Liberal Government Stares Down Open Revolt Over Insane Wind Power Policy
As it goes in South Australia, so goes Ontario. STT has been fairly well occupied over the last few weeks in detailing the debacle Downunder, but it appears that, for all the same reasons, power consumers (read voters) in Ontario are just as furious as those unfortunates who hang their hats in South Australia: both … Continue reading Ontario’s Liberal Government Stares Down Open Revolt Over Insane Wind Power Policy
Wind Power in Africa is ‘Callous, Immoral Eco-Manslaughter’
Powering Countries, Empowering People: A Case Study Master Resource Paul Driessen 20 September 2016 For 16 years, in a scene out of pre-industrial America, Thabo Molubi and his partner made furniture in South Africa’s outback, known locally as the “veld.” Lacking even a stream to turn a water wheel and machinery, they depended solely on … Continue reading Wind Power in Africa is ‘Callous, Immoral Eco-Manslaughter’
Wind Power Chaos: South Australia Bound to Suffer Summertime Blackouts & Victoria’s ALP Government Determined to Follow Suit
*** Given the scale and scope of the calamity, the media’s continued forensic focus on South Australia’s recent Statewide blackout is thoroughly justified. However, what occurred on 28 September this year (aka ‘Black Wednesday’) is not the first time that a precipitous collapse in wind power output in SA has caused a widespread blackout (see … Continue reading Wind Power Chaos: South Australia Bound to Suffer Summertime Blackouts & Victoria’s ALP Government Determined to Follow Suit
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