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
Category: Big wind politics
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
Acciona Hits the Wall
Spanish wind conquistadors, Acciona set the benchmark in generating community outrage in Australia with the way it has ridden roughshod over the hard-working locals at Waubra in Victoria – where it runs a wind farm that the Victorian government and the Clean Energy Regulator know full well does not and can not comply with the … Continue reading Acciona Hits the Wall
Call to Scrap RET goes from Whisper to Roar: BCA joins the queue
Renewable energy target distorting market: BCA The Australian Annabel Hepworth 14 February 2014 THE nation’s peak business group has warned that the controversial renewable energy target — already blamed for distorting the $11 billion National Electricity Market — could become more expensive when the carbon tax is repealed. In a submission obtained by The Australian, … Continue reading Call to Scrap RET goes from Whisper to Roar: BCA joins the queue
Burchell Wilson: The RET is corporate welfare on a massive scale
The Government's review of the impact of the RET on power prices is expected to result in either a massive cut to the renewable energy target - or the scrapping of it outright - a move backed by the Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry's Chief Economist Burchell Wilson. Burchell Wilson has already given the … Continue reading Burchell Wilson: The RET is corporate welfare on a massive scale
Planets Align as Dick Warburton – RET Slayer – appointed to head RET Review
“Apoplexy”: informal, extreme anger: the decision has aroused apoplexy among greentard bloggers. In the week just gone, greentard bloggers, wind weasels and their parasites have gone into meltdown over the Head Boy’s decision to appoint 4 business and energy market experts to head up the long awaited RET review. In charge will be Dick Warburton … Continue reading Planets Align as Dick Warburton – RET Slayer – appointed to head RET Review
US Renewable Guru commits heresy – once the facts are known support for fans plummets
Many STT readers will be aware that both the Australian government (where are you Greg Hunt) and the Clean Energy Regulator have been conspicuously silent amid allegations of fraudulent payments running to hundreds of millions of dollars relating to RECs - aka Large-scale Generation Certificates (LGCs) - created by non-compliant wind factories such as Waubra, … Continue reading US Renewable Guru commits heresy – once the facts are known support for fans plummets
Ben Acheson – Wind Energy: Chalk it Up As a Loss
Ben Acheson writes for the Huffington Post. He's also the Energy and Environment Policy Adviser and Parliamentary Assistant to Struan Stevenson MEP at the European Parliament in Brussels. In addition to his expertise on Energy and Environment issues, he has an in-depth knowledge of regional security in Central Asia, animal welfare within the European Union … Continue reading Ben Acheson – Wind Energy: Chalk it Up As a Loss
Nick Xenophon slams “reckless” CERES Project as an “economic kick in the guts” for SA
**** SA’s favourite Greek, Senator Nick Xenophon has teamed up with Frontier Economics’ Danny Price to absolutely hammer the ludicrous plan to spear 197 giant fans into SA’s agricultural Heartland on Yorke Peninsula. While we noted yesterday that the chances that the Ceres project will ever be built are slimmer than a German supermodel – … Continue reading Nick Xenophon slams “reckless” CERES Project as an “economic kick in the guts” for SA