As the dust settles on the Palmer/Gore circus of the bizarre, it’s now evident that the PUP’s leader has pulled one the greatest confidence tricks since Paul Newman and Robert Redford joined forces in “The Sting”. As the hard-green-left stared in awe at their grand warming alarmist, Palmer slipped through the net unnoticed. It was … Continue reading PM’s Top Advisor – Maurice Newman – Hammers Palmer’s “Inconsistent” RET Plan
Category: Big wind politics
Power Prices“r”UP: Clive Palmer Determined to Destroy Australian Business and Crush Australian Families
**** Australian politics is (sadly) renowned for its “colour” - and there are few more colourful than Queensland’s political “giant”, Clive Palmer. Head of the PUP – or the “Prices“r”UP” Party. Yesterday - in a circus so bizarre that PT Barnum would have been left speechless - Palmer teamed up with none other than Al … Continue reading Power Prices“r”UP: Clive Palmer Determined to Destroy Australian Business and Crush Australian Families
The Battle for Mt Emerald FNQ: What’s the Price for the Sound of Your Silence?
**** Proving the adage that you can never keep a good man down, Senator John Madigan has bobbed up in Far North Queensland and walked straight into a hornet’s nest – this time over gag clauses in land contracts for properties being sold next door to a wind farm by the developer of that wind … Continue reading The Battle for Mt Emerald FNQ: What’s the Price for the Sound of Your Silence?
Kelly O’Dwyer & Angus Taylor Join in a Wreck the RET Duet
With the RET Review Panel sharpening their axes – and all set to recommend the abolition of the mandatory RET - the wagons are being circled within Coalition ranks. The vast majority of Coalition members are in favour of scrapping the mandatory RET in its entirety. And barely a day passes without another of their … Continue reading Kelly O’Dwyer & Angus Taylor Join in a Wreck the RET Duet
When will the Wind Industry Stop Lying?
**** With the Australian wind industry in its death throes, the industry and its parasites are lying around the clock in an effort to preserve the greatest rort of all time - as they seek to fend off the inevitable dismantling of the mandatory Renewable Energy Target. Lies about the number of jobs at risk. … Continue reading When will the Wind Industry Stop Lying?
Mandatory RET the Nail in the Coffin for Aluminium Processors
**** When it comes to rock scratching Australia is one of the world’s biggest: bauxite is no exception. Australia currently has 5 bauxite mines in operation: Boddington (Western Australia) - BHP Billiton - Worsley Alumina; Gove (Northern Territory) - Pacific Aluminium; Huntly (Western Australia) - Alcoa of Australia; Willowdale (Western Australia) - Alcoa of Australia; … Continue reading Mandatory RET the Nail in the Coffin for Aluminium Processors
Ontario’s Great Wind Rush sees Power Prices Triple
Wherever giant fans have been slung up in the world, power prices have risen at rates much faster than fan-free jurisdictions (see our post here). The punishment wrought on the poorest and most vulnerable, as a result, is a political crime against the people (see our posts here and here). The ONLY purported justification is … Continue reading Ontario’s Great Wind Rush sees Power Prices Triple
Senator John Madigan Skewers Simon Chapman
Victorian Senator, John Madigan delivered an utterly brilliant speech in the Commonwealth Senate this week. See the video below; Hansard (transcript) follows. As to the Senator, John Madigan provides a salient example of what can happen when decency, integrity and courage all combine in defence of the weak and vulnerable among us; and in pursuit … Continue reading Senator John Madigan Skewers Simon Chapman
The Wind: Only Designed for Recreational Pursuits
Why Not Wind? wind-watch.org Eric Rosenbloom To whom it may concern: This is a brief representation of the reasons industrial-scale wind is a destructive boondoggle that only fools – or worse – would approve. Unlike “conventional” power sources, wind does not follow demand. As the Bonneville Power Authority in the Pacific Northwest of the USA … Continue reading The Wind: Only Designed for Recreational Pursuits
Jupiter wind farm threat sends locals into orbit
*** Land owners revolt at Jupiter wind farm meeting The Canberra Times Primrose Riordan 14 June 2014 Residents of villages east of Lake George near Tarago erupted in anger at an information day about the Jupiter wind farm proposed by Spanish-Australian company EPYC, accusing the group of not being open enough about the project. Farmers … Continue reading Jupiter wind farm threat sends locals into orbit
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