*** In the 1940s, South Australian Legend, Tom Playford (Premier for 26 years from 1938 to 1965) took a natural gift, in the form of vast untapped reserves of brown coal located at Leigh Creek, directed it through power plants at Port Augusta and, with its cheap and reliable power supply, built a mining, manufacturing … Continue reading South Australians Turn Against Wind Power & Plump for an Atomic Future Instead
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China Counts the Staggering Cost of its Wind Power Experiment
Plenty of what Westerners know about the Middle Kingdom is more marvellous myth than solid fact. Fitting squarely within that category is the idea pedalled by wind worshippers that China is working at a furious pace to carpet itself with millions of these things. In truth, instead of squandering billions on a technology that was … Continue reading China Counts the Staggering Cost of its Wind Power Experiment
Ontario’s Eco-Fascists’ ‘Kill Coal’ Agenda Kills Ontario Instead: Now ‘Everything Costs More’
Ontario’s energy policy is in tatters; power prices have crushed business and the roll out of thousands of these things has wrecked the lives and livelihoods of thousands, in what were once peaceful and prosperous farming communities. In short, Kathleen Wynne & Co have dug an enormous hole from which there may be no escape. … Continue reading Ontario’s Eco-Fascists’ ‘Kill Coal’ Agenda Kills Ontario Instead: Now ‘Everything Costs More’
Wind Power: Economically, Socially & Environmentally Unsustainable
Craig Rucker is executive director of the Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow. In this brilliant and succinct piece of analysis, Craig lays out precisely why these things do not work, on any level: economic, social or environmental. Wind Power: Our Least Sustainable Resource? Master Resource Craig Rucker 25 October 2016 A single 1.7 MW wind turbine, … Continue reading Wind Power: Economically, Socially & Environmentally Unsustainable
Astroturfing ‘Greens’ Destroy Viable Power Sytems & Pocket Obscene ‘Profits’ at Taxpayers’ Expense
*** Americans have got a long way to go to catch up with South Australians. While there is a well-organised band of eco-fascists pushing America towards a wind powered future, the penetration of wind power in the US is minuscule by comparison with Australia’s so-called “wind powered capital”. South Australians, blessed with the highest power … Continue reading Astroturfing ‘Greens’ Destroy Viable Power Sytems & Pocket Obscene ‘Profits’ at Taxpayers’ Expense
Blackouts Beckon as Cost of Britain’s Wind Powered Energy ‘Transition’ Rockets
*** Britain went into wind power almost as fast and hard as Germany: the costs have been colossal and the effects on its power grid chaotic. Fortunately, however, David Cameron’s Conservatives followed an election manifesto, slashed subsidies to onshore wind power and gave planning veto rights back to communities. Inevitably, the construction of proposed onshore … Continue reading Blackouts Beckon as Cost of Britain’s Wind Powered Energy ‘Transition’ Rockets
Wind Power: Why Ontario Suffers the Highest Power Costs in North America
The video above and the pieces from the Financial Post below give a pretty fair rundown on why Ontario suffers the highest power costs in North America and what its Liberal government's obsession with wind power has done to destroy not only its once competitive industry, but also its once peaceful and prosperous rural … Continue reading Wind Power: Why Ontario Suffers the Highest Power Costs in North America
Trump’s ‘Basket of Deplorables’ Deliver Lesson on Energy Policy: Politicians Ignore Workers at their Political Peril
After America’s “basket of deplorables” banded together to send Donald Trump to the White House and Hillary Clinton to the Dog House, everything politicians and pundits thought they knew about politics is patently wrong. Ignoring the working class is one thing, but condescending, denigrating and ridiculing those who plump for people like Trump as ‘idiots’, … Continue reading Trump’s ‘Basket of Deplorables’ Deliver Lesson on Energy Policy: Politicians Ignore Workers at their Political Peril
‘Peak Lunacy’: Australia’s Unfolding Energy Fiasco Cripples SA – Victoria to Follow
*** In Ridley Scott’s 1991 feminist version of the classic American road film, Thelma and Louise, the protagonists hit the road in a 1966 Ford Thunderbird convertible, hoping to escape the dropkick men in their dreary lives. Thelma, in resisting the unwanted advances of a would-be rapist, pumps her assailant full of lead and the … Continue reading ‘Peak Lunacy’: Australia’s Unfolding Energy Fiasco Cripples SA – Victoria to Follow
South Australia Set for Higher Power Prices & More Blackouts Post Hazelwood Closure
SA's vapid Premier, Jay Weatherill about to suffer another power shock. *** The Federal Large-Scale RET has just claimed another scalp in the shape of 1,600MW of reliable base-load plant at Hazelwood, Victoria - as well as more than 1,000 well-paid blue-collar jobs and an entire regional community. That loss follows hot on the heels … Continue reading South Australia Set for Higher Power Prices & More Blackouts Post Hazelwood Closure
