The truth about the great wind power fraud
The only businesses which are bouncing along in South Australia are those selling portable diesel generators, candles and LED headlamps. The sort of staple items you might find on a Doomsday Prepper’s list. However, in Australia’s so-called wind power capital, BYO and DIY power and lighting are everyday essentials. SA’s vapid Premier, Jay Weatherill pretends […]
One thing time Finkel will never be accused of is under-selling his 42% renewable energy target, re-boxed and badged as a clean energy target ‘CET’. However, the trouble with hubris is that it does not take very long to prick the over-eager salesman’s balloon. As we pointed out in yesterday’s post, Finkel’s forecast power price […]
*** Politics is a brutal business: no sooner is a politician or political party riding the crest of a wave, than they’re being smashed against jagged rocks and deluged by a roaring surf. As Australian politicians are fast learning, the politics of power is even more brutal still. Continually rocketing power prices is bad enough, […]
*** STT called Alan Finkel’s report on Australia’s renewable energy debacle a mix of Lewis Carroll’s Through the Looking Glass and Goldilocks. As commentators chew through Finkel’s rubbery figures, it is apparent that our description was not just fair but accurate. New electricity reform details cut off promised $90 saving The Australian David Crowe 16 […]
*** Never in the field of political conflict has so much been owed by so many to so few. So few, in fact, we can name him: Angus Taylor, Liberal Member for Hume. In a run of posts this week, STT will detail the fallout from Alan Finkel’s fantasyland review of Australia’s electricity market. In […]
*** The wind industry has spent a veritable fortune generating propaganda that attacks anyone complaining about the adverse health effects caused by wind turbine noise and vibration, ridiculing them as tin-foil-hatted, climate change denying, lunatics. For that purpose, in Australia, the wind industry enlisted a former tobacco advertising guru, who peddles a theory called ‘nocebo’, […]
Celebrated in the BBC reality TV series, ‘Trawlermen’ the men that brave the waves in search of the seafood that graces British dining tables, restaurants and fish and chip shops risk life and limb to bring the catch home. Ruthlessly competitive, British fishermen not only have to contend with mountainous seas and other Trawlermen, now […]
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