**** The Australian Financial Review – as one of the lefty Fairfax stable – “drank the Kool Aid” early and happily ran with the wind industry’s narrative that having Australia bristle with giant fans is a sure-fire way of cooling mother Earth; that wind power is free; and that the mandatory RET is public policy … Continue reading How the Public Are Deceived About the True Cost of the Mandatory RET
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Mandatory RET: An Expensive (and Unsustainable) Economic Burden
**** The RET is an expensive burden on the economy Australian Financial Review Alan Moran 19 August 2014 People and firms should be free to choose how they trade off their sources of energy and price preferences. With the carbon tax repealed, the focus has shifted to the renewable requirements. A key component of these, … Continue reading Mandatory RET: An Expensive (and Unsustainable) Economic Burden
Lost In Translation: How a CO2 Abatement Scheme Became “Corporate Welfare on Steroids”
**** Time to remember the original aim of the RET Australian Financial Review Danny Price 21 August 2014 The RET was intended to cut carbon. Opening it up to more forms of efficient generation would help get that result. The debate over the renewable energy target has ended up exactly where you would expect a … Continue reading Lost In Translation: How a CO2 Abatement Scheme Became “Corporate Welfare on Steroids”
Wind Farms Turn Scottish Highland Homes Into Sonic Torture Traps
An ill wind blows as the surge of turbines stirs fears of silent danger to our health Scottish Express Paula Murray 10 August 2014 TENS of thousands of Scots may be suffering from a hidden sickness epidemic caused by wind farms, campaigners have warned. The Sunday Express can reveal that the Scottish Government has recently … Continue reading Wind Farms Turn Scottish Highland Homes Into Sonic Torture Traps
Canada’s Wind Power Disaster Laid Bare
Ontario is about to boil over, as impacted and threatened communities unite in seething rage at what their political betters have done to energy policy (see our post here). The hard-green-left Liberals have created a wind power policy so insane as to beggar belief: sending power prices through the roof (referred to as “hydro bills”, … Continue reading Canada’s Wind Power Disaster Laid Bare
Australia’s Runaway Renewables Policy to Cost $Billions
**** Competitive structure best way to rein in costs The Australian Barry FitzGerald 20 August 2014 IT is a touch ironic that it has taken the abolition of the carbon tax to highlight just what a pernicious bit of work it was. More than even Tony Abbott’s labelling of it as a big, bad tax. … Continue reading Australia’s Runaway Renewables Policy to Cost $Billions
Senator Matt Canavan: mandatory RET is an Enormous Wind Industry Protection Racket
**** With news that Tony Abbott, Joe Hockey and Mathias Cormann have teamed up to axe the mandatory RET (see our post here), the wind industry and its parasites have been reduced to a pitiful spectacle: drifting between pleading and begging for mercy, on the one hand, and foaming rage, on the other. These desperados … Continue reading Senator Matt Canavan: mandatory RET is an Enormous Wind Industry Protection Racket
ABC’s Pro-Wind Industry Bias Exposed as a National Scandal
**** Ever had the feeling that certain quarters of the media give the wind industry an easy run? Australia’s National broad-sheet, The Australian stands as an exception; publishing plenty of pieces that, quite rightly, highlight the obscene cost and spurious “benefits” of the mandatory Renewable Energy Target and its product: the wind industry (for just … Continue reading ABC’s Pro-Wind Industry Bias Exposed as a National Scandal
Tony Abbott, Joe Hockey & Mathias Cormann: Natural Born RET Killers
**** Tony Abbott has made no secret of his eagerness to do away with the most colossal corporate welfare scheme in the history of the Commonwealth (see our posts here and here and here). And his Treasurer, Joe Hockey has pinned his colours to the mast as someone who can’t stand wind farms - and … Continue reading Tony Abbott, Joe Hockey & Mathias Cormann: Natural Born RET Killers
European Governments Rip Up Wind Power Contracts
**** In recent weeks there has been a cacophony of wind industry rent-seeker bleating. Turbine makers, like America's GE have been running hard in the press touting the "merits" of retaining the mandatory Renewable Energy Target - a scheme that will see $50 billion added to Australian power bills and directed to wind power outfits … Continue reading European Governments Rip Up Wind Power Contracts
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