STT has a ‘thing’ for the English language. In the hands of adept practitioners, our mother tongue is capable of conveying all manner of complex concepts and ideas, and doing so with verve and wit. However, in the hands of the well-paid spin doctors and useful political idiots that run with, and run cover for, … Continue reading Germany’s €Trillion Euro Disaster: Wind Power ‘Transition’ Destroys its Industrial Heartland
Category: power prices
How South Australia’s Wind Power Obsession Sent Power Prices Rocketing & Killed Grid Reliability
*** For over 15 years, the Australian wind industry, its parasites and spruikers held up South Australia as the perfect example of what a wind powered future would look like: the economic basket case even earned the mantle of ‘Australia’s wind power capital’. Now that their dreams have become a daily South Australian nightmare, it’s … Continue reading How South Australia’s Wind Power Obsession Sent Power Prices Rocketing & Killed Grid Reliability
Wind Power – Guaranteed to Double Power Prices & Destroy Once Reliable Grids
The one thing that South Australia’s vapid Premier, Jay Weatherill and his hapless sidekick, Tom Koutsantonis can never complain about from here on is a lack of attention. South Australia’s internationally renowned power pricing and supply calamity is driven by a maniacal obsession with wind power. The circumstances that led to the events on 28 … Continue reading Wind Power – Guaranteed to Double Power Prices & Destroy Once Reliable Grids
Ontario’s Liberal Government Stares Down Open Revolt Over Insane Wind Power Policy
As it goes in South Australia, so goes Ontario. STT has been fairly well occupied over the last few weeks in detailing the debacle Downunder, but it appears that, for all the same reasons, power consumers (read voters) in Ontario are just as furious as those unfortunates who hang their hats in South Australia: both … Continue reading Ontario’s Liberal Government Stares Down Open Revolt Over Insane Wind Power Policy
Power Price Punishment Forces Ontario to Hit Reverse on Wind Power Push
Terence Corcoran: Ontario Liberals’ huge green energy about-face shows renewables aren’t so doable after all Financial Post Terence Corcoran 28 September 2016 One should never underestimate the ability of politicians to convert massive policy failure into a dazzling display of green concern for the welfare of voters. That’s the trick now being attempted by the … Continue reading Power Price Punishment Forces Ontario to Hit Reverse on Wind Power Push
Queensland Labor Lunacy: Premier Vows to Follow South Australia Back to the Dark Ages
*** It was Albert Einstein that forecast the Australian approach to energy policy when he defined insanity as: “doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” Queensland’s capital, Brisbane is barely 1,600 km and 2 hours, 20 minutes flying time from Adelaide, but it appears that the news from South Australia … Continue reading Queensland Labor Lunacy: Premier Vows to Follow South Australia Back to the Dark Ages
Can Ontario Escape its Self-Inflicted Wind Power Disaster?
*** 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 … Continue reading Can Ontario Escape its Self-Inflicted Wind Power Disaster?
South Australia’s Wind Power Debacle Killing Miners, Mineral Processors & Scarce Jobs
*** In the aftermath of South Australia's 'Black' Wednesday, its biggest miner - BHP Billiton - and last two mineral processors - Whyalla steel maker, Arrium and Port Pirie lead and zinc smelter, Nyrstar, were left powerless and thoroughly crippled as a result. We'll start with a couple of pieces that appeared the day after. … Continue reading South Australia’s Wind Power Debacle Killing Miners, Mineral Processors & Scarce Jobs
Blackout Blues Continue: Australia’s Wind Industry Loses PR War for ‘Hearts & Minds’
The proponents of a pointless power source, abandoned centuries ago for pretty obvious reasons, which exists, and only exists by reason of massive subsidies drawn from power consumers and/or taxpayers have, from the outset, engaged in a well-orchestrated PR campaign aimed at winning ‘hearts and minds’. An industry that wouldn’t survive a nanosecond without mandated … Continue reading Blackout Blues Continue: Australia’s Wind Industry Loses PR War for ‘Hearts & Minds’
South Australia’s ‘Deluded’ Wind Power Policy a ‘Red-Flag’ for Wind Cult Zealots & Politicians Alike
*** There is nothing quite like being right in a public forum: especially when your opponents run as a rabid pack of deluded zealots, occupying a netherworld - altogether free of both fact and consequence - driven by ideology; and devoid of common sense, logic or reason. During the week just gone, the latest whole … Continue reading South Australia’s ‘Deluded’ Wind Power Policy a ‘Red-Flag’ for Wind Cult Zealots & Politicians Alike