Dick Warburton: is the RET worth the Pain inflicted on Families & Business?

As STT followers know, the RET Review Panel is headed up by Dick Warburton - a man who’s acutely aware of the pain being inflicted on Australian families and business by the mandatory Renewable Energy Target. Since Dick was appointed to conduct the first thorough cost/benefit analysis of the mandatory RET ever undertaken, the wind … Continue reading Dick Warburton: is the RET worth the Pain inflicted on Families & Business?

Danish Fan Maker Vestas Run by Crooks – and that’s a FACT

**** Does anyone remember Vestas? The struggling Danish fan maker used to be a “big player” in Australia’s wind industry – having sold hundreds of its turbines here. But - with Australia’s wind industry on the ropes - Vestas just seems to have lost interest in Australia - because we’ve hardly heard a peep out … Continue reading Danish Fan Maker Vestas Run by Crooks – and that’s a FACT

Slash Wind Power Subsidies & Bring Power Prices Back to Earth

With Australia’s wind industry gasping its last breath, their hired spruikers at the Clean Energy Council have taken to peddling the incredible tale that wind power has led to a REDUCTION in our power bills. Trouble is that wind power generation (the product of the mandatory RET - which has been in operation since 2001) … Continue reading Slash Wind Power Subsidies & Bring Power Prices Back to Earth

Time to let the RET Review Panel Know What You Think

As STT’s loyal followers know, Australia is all set to decouple itself from the international economic suicide pact entered when gullible and unwitting governments all over the world signed up to ludicrously expensive and utterly pointless renewables policies. The Coalition are itching to scrap the Renewable Energy Target - and the RET Review Panel appear … Continue reading Time to let the RET Review Panel Know What You Think

Wind Power in Britain: it’s Robin Hood in Reverse

A while back, there was a plucky young English lad, called Robin Hood, who was pretty handy with both long-bow and sword; and so comfortable with expressing his “feminine side” that he wasn’t afraid to be seen in figure hugging green tights. Hood hung out with his band of Merry Men in Sherwood Forest, dodging … Continue reading Wind Power in Britain: it’s Robin Hood in Reverse

Wind Power Investors: Get Out While You Can

**** For anyone still foolish enough to have their hard earned cash invested in wind power companies the warnings to grab your money and run couldn’t be louder or clearer. The members of the RET review panel have signalled their intention to take an axe to the RET: spelling out the fact that the review … Continue reading Wind Power Investors: Get Out While You Can

Joe Hockey keen to scrap Infigen’s “utterly offensive” Lake George Wind Farm

**** In our last post we covered the Alan Jone’s interview with Federal Treasurer Joe Hockey that’s sent the wind industry and its parasites into a tailspin. Apart from the fact that Joe detests the very sight of these things, the Treasurer made it abundantly clear that when the Coalition talks about ending the “age … Continue reading Joe Hockey keen to scrap Infigen’s “utterly offensive” Lake George Wind Farm

Australia’s Treasurer, Joe Hockey says: Stop These Things!

**** Last Friday, the Federal Treasurer, Joe Hockey (aka Shrek) met with Alan Jones on his Breakfast radio show on 2GB. And what he had to say about giant fans has sent the wind industry and its parasites into fits of apoplexy. Predictably, the usual suspects - eco-fascist bloggers, the ABC and Fairfax Press - … Continue reading Australia’s Treasurer, Joe Hockey says: Stop These Things!

Martians in charge of UK Energy Policy

With spiralling power costs crippling business and punishing families due to its ludicrous renewables policy, the Brits might fairly ask: “have our leaders been taken over by Martians?” Well, frankly, yes. The Tories have abdicated their responsibility for energy policy to the hard-green-left of the Liberal-Democrats - who can’t transfer £billions in taxpayer and power consumer … Continue reading Martians in charge of UK Energy Policy

Bjørn Lomborg: Cost of Renewables Hit Poorest the Hardest

Bjørn Lomborg has become one of the most high profile critics of insanely expensive and utterly pointless renewable energy policies across the globe (see our posts here and here). Bjørn's back - and this time he adds the impact that our ludicrous Renewable Energy Target has had - and will have - on power prices and … Continue reading Bjørn Lomborg: Cost of Renewables Hit Poorest the Hardest