The good Senator from Victoria, John “Marshall” Madigan is on fire. Having skewered the former tobacco advertising guru - who claims to be an “expert” on well, just about everything (see our post here) - the Marshall has just launched an Exocet missile at the seedy world of hard-green-left politics and the big corporate interests … Continue reading The Tangled Web: John Madigan Exposes the Greens as a Paid-Up Wind Industry Front
Category: Big wind politics
Senator Chris Back: Time to Kill the Mandatory RET
**** WA Liberal Senator, Chris Back launched a stinging attack on the wind industry during a speech in the Federal Senate, yesterday. Responding to a cacophony of wind industry rent seeker bleating, Chris has smashed headlong into three of the wind industry’s greatest myths. The first is that any alteration to the mandatory Renewable Energy … Continue reading Senator Chris Back: Time to Kill the Mandatory RET
UK’s Wind Industry Buys British Medical Association; Aims to Silence Medicos
In an all too familiar tale, the British Medical Association has been co-opted by the wind industry and is now just another advocate for the great wind power fraud. The same has happened in Australia with the: Australian Medical Association (see our posts here and here and here and here); Public Health Association; (see our … Continue reading UK’s Wind Industry Buys British Medical Association; Aims to Silence Medicos
Angus Taylor Joins the Wind Farm Rumble to Save Rugby & Rye Park
A little while back, in covering what "community division" caused by wind farms really means, we touched on a developer's "community consultation" that took place at Rye Park (near Goulburn) in NSW (see our post here). The “community consultation” in question was held by Epuron – an outfit hoping to develop what it calls the … Continue reading Angus Taylor Joins the Wind Farm Rumble to Save Rugby & Rye Park
Brits Being Fleeced for £billions by Offshore Wind Farm Outfits
Britain’s political betters have set it up for one enormous gamble. Britain is wagering its entire economic future on its – out of control – wind power boondoggle. Back in January, The Economist reported on the INSANE cost of delivering offshore wind power – where generators are guaranteed obscene returns – being able to charge … Continue reading Brits Being Fleeced for £billions by Offshore Wind Farm Outfits
Tony Abbott: RET a Threat to Jobs in All Industries (not just Aluminum Smelters)
**** Over the last week or two the press has been giving a fair bit of coverage to the fact that there are 25 Coalition Members who are trying to find a “Goldilocks solution” to the disaster that is the mandatory Renewable Energy Target. The group - which is being directed by Ian “Macca” Macfarlane … Continue reading Tony Abbott: RET a Threat to Jobs in All Industries (not just Aluminum Smelters)
Renegade PUP – Jacqui Lambie – Heralds Demise of the Mandatory RET
The credibility of any political party pronouncing any policy position is directly proportional to the unity demonstrated by elected members within that party: Politics 101. Barely a week has passed since big Clive Palmer announced that his Palmer United Party (PUP) would use its balance of power in the Senate to block any changes whatsoever … Continue reading Renegade PUP – Jacqui Lambie – Heralds Demise of the Mandatory RET
A “Sweet” Renewable Future for FNQ: or, “Is there Method in Palmer’s Madness”?
**** As STT has already pointed out, retaining the Clean Energy Finance Corporation and the mandatory RET makes no sense for a political party which helped to kill the “carbon” tax (with no ETS to replace it) because of the punishment it caused to businesses and households through spiralling electricity bills. Since big Clive’s announcement, … Continue reading A “Sweet” Renewable Future for FNQ: or, “Is there Method in Palmer’s Madness”?
Wind Industry Doomed as Smokin’ Joe Hockey Shuts Down CEFC Lending for Wind Farms
**** Having killed the “carbon” tax in an eye-blink - a business killing and family punishing $23 a tonne tax on carbon dioxide gas - Clive Palmer vowed to use his ability to block legislation proposed by the Coalition in the Senate to prevent any changes to the mandatory Renewable Energy Target; and the abolition … Continue reading Wind Industry Doomed as Smokin’ Joe Hockey Shuts Down CEFC Lending for Wind Farms
Alan Moran: Wind Power FAILS on all Scores
**** Renewable energy as a means of reducing emissions fails two key tests Herald Sun Alan Moran 26 June 2014 REGULATORY change will always disadvantage some while advantaging others. But the benefits of deregulation far outpace the costs and Australia carries a weighty regulatory burden, one that has deprived us of enjoying the world’s highest … Continue reading Alan Moran: Wind Power FAILS on all Scores
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