Recently the Australian Medical Association (AMA) released a disgraceful position statement in relation to wind farm noise and health. This is Dr Sarah Laurie's cutting response. AMA statement on wind farms and health Sarah Laurie 14 March 2014 Dear Dr Hambleton and Professor Dobb, I will be formally writing to the AMA Federal Council members on … Continue reading Australian Medical Association: A National Disgrace
Category: Big wind politics
Angus Taylor: Infigen’s backdoor deal with ACT will triple power prices in Canberra
*** Infigen (aka Babcock and Brown) are DESPERATE to flog their wind farm interests in Australia and head back home to the US. They have a stack of planned and approved wind farms in Victoria and NSW, but haven't got a snowball's chance in hell of building any of them without a Power Purchase Agreement … Continue reading Angus Taylor: Infigen’s backdoor deal with ACT will triple power prices in Canberra
NHMRC Disqualified from Coalition’s Health Inquiry
**** The NRMRC has been wearing “ribbons of shame” since it rushed to print with its selective, biased and incomplete literature review back in 2010. The very, very Rapid Review was so quick off the mark that it completely missed the decade of work put together by Neil Kelley & Co during the 1980s in … Continue reading NHMRC Disqualified from Coalition’s Health Inquiry
Judith Sloan: Junking the RET is the right thing to do
Judith Sloan has already entered the STT Pantheon with an earlier piece on the insanity that is the RET (see our post here). Well, the lass with a head for numbers - and smarter than brain pie - is back at it with this sizzling piece from The Australian. Junking energy target is right The … Continue reading Judith Sloan: Junking the RET is the right thing to do
Kill the RET and Save the Poor
The REC Tax that comes with the RET is the most regressive tax of all. The impact on the poorest and most vulnerable is punishing and has led to the new phrase of our time – “energy poverty”. Germany has disconnected some 800,000 homes from its grid simply because they can no longer afford their … Continue reading Kill the RET and Save the Poor
Miners gang up on the RET
Australia’s miners have carried its economy along on a wave of investment and export growth over the last 20 years – so when they talk – governments listen (see our post here). Here’s a cracking piece by Minerals Council Chief, Brendon Pearson that appeared in The Australian. No end in sight to soaring electricity prices … Continue reading Miners gang up on the RET
The RET helped to kill Alcoa’s Port Henry Aluminium Smelter & 980 jobs
**** Proving Ron Boswell’s statement that: “Australia can have a carbon price and renewable energy targets or viable manufacturing. We can’t have both” – aluminium refiner, Alcoa has just announced that it will pull the plug on its Port Henry smelter near Geelong – with the loss of 980 jobs. Here’s The Australian on another … Continue reading The RET helped to kill Alcoa’s Port Henry Aluminium Smelter & 980 jobs
Europe ditches green economics
With their renewables experiment fast starting to look like a costly disaster, Europeans are quickening the pace in their rush to bring the insanity to an end. Europe Starts To Run, Not Walk, Away From Green Economics Investors.com 5 February 2014 Energy Policy: The media aren't paying much attention, but in recent weeks Europe has decided … Continue reading Europe ditches green economics
Frank Campbell: Letter of the week
The wind industry and it parasites are working overtime at the minute in a vain attempt to win back the moral high ground - one target are local rural rags that are always keen to print anything that'll fill their pages. Well, no longer do these spinners get a free run, as friendly, farming folk … Continue reading Frank Campbell: Letter of the week
Dennis Shanahan: time to scrap the “secret” carbon tax
**** The Australian’s Dennis Shanahan has come out swinging against the RET – calling it the “secret” carbon tax that simply has to go. Abbott finds energy to act on ‘secret’ carbon tax The Australian Dennis Shanahan, comment 18 February 2014 AFTER years of shadow boxing, Tony Abbott has finally decided to act on the … Continue reading Dennis Shanahan: time to scrap the “secret” carbon tax
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