**** Time to remember the original aim of the RET Australian Financial Review Danny Price 21 August 2014 The RET was intended to cut carbon. Opening it up to more forms of efficient generation would help get that result. The debate over the renewable energy target has ended up exactly where you would expect a … Continue reading Lost In Translation: How a CO2 Abatement Scheme Became “Corporate Welfare on Steroids”
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Australia’s Runaway Renewables Policy to Cost $Billions
**** Competitive structure best way to rein in costs The Australian Barry FitzGerald 20 August 2014 IT is a touch ironic that it has taken the abolition of the carbon tax to highlight just what a pernicious bit of work it was. More than even Tony Abbott’s labelling of it as a big, bad tax. … Continue reading Australia’s Runaway Renewables Policy to Cost $Billions
Senator Matt Canavan: mandatory RET is an Enormous Wind Industry Protection Racket
**** With news that Tony Abbott, Joe Hockey and Mathias Cormann have teamed up to axe the mandatory RET (see our post here), the wind industry and its parasites have been reduced to a pitiful spectacle: drifting between pleading and begging for mercy, on the one hand, and foaming rage, on the other. These desperados … Continue reading Senator Matt Canavan: mandatory RET is an Enormous Wind Industry Protection Racket
Tony Abbott, Joe Hockey & Mathias Cormann: Natural Born RET Killers
**** Tony Abbott has made no secret of his eagerness to do away with the most colossal corporate welfare scheme in the history of the Commonwealth (see our posts here and here and here). And his Treasurer, Joe Hockey has pinned his colours to the mast as someone who can’t stand wind farms - and … Continue reading Tony Abbott, Joe Hockey & Mathias Cormann: Natural Born RET Killers
Community Opposition to Wind Farms Grows Because Wind Power is a Fraud
As community and political opposition to the great wind power fraud rolls and builds across the world, the charge that opponents are red-necked climate change deniers, infected with a dose of Not In My Backyard syndrome, starts to ring hollow. Surely that charge can’t stick to each and every one of the 1,000 who signed … Continue reading Community Opposition to Wind Farms Grows Because Wind Power is a Fraud
Germany’s Unsustainable “Green” Jobs “Miracle” Collapses
The Germans went into wind power harder and faster than anyone else - and the cost of doing so is catching up with a vengeance. The subsidies have been colossal, the impacts on the electricity market chaotic and - contrary to the purpose of the policy - CO2 emissions are rising fast (see our post … Continue reading Germany’s Unsustainable “Green” Jobs “Miracle” Collapses
The Wind Industry is based on a Central, Endlessly Repeated Lie
*** Lunacy on sea: As Ministers agree to the world’s biggest wind farm off Brighton, has Britain ever succumbed to a more catastrophic folly? The Daily Mail Christopher Booker 2 August 2014 What should be our reaction to daft stories like the one recently reported in the Daily Mail about the 60ft wind turbine put … Continue reading The Wind Industry is based on a Central, Endlessly Repeated Lie
More Australian Wind Power “FAILS”
**** Renewables in the doldrums The Australian Graham Lloyd 2 August 2014 A spell of calm weather exposes a fatal flaw in the case for wind power FOR Australia’s multi-billion-dollar renewable energy industry, marooned in the doldrums of investment uncertainty, the big calm before the renewable energy target review storm came last week. For two … Continue reading More Australian Wind Power “FAILS”
Lessons from Germany’s Wind Power Disaster
**** All lies and promises – the wind industry has finally been rumbled in Germany and is about to be shown the door in Australia. The wind industry and its parasites have been guilty of more than just a little hubris. Claiming to be able to deliver cheap, reliable sparks was always going to be … Continue reading Lessons from Germany’s Wind Power Disaster
Maurice Newman: NSW’s “Green” Dreaming is Nuts
**** California dreaming is nuts in NSW The Australian Maurice Newman 30 July 2014 There will be national fallout from our biggest state’s clean energy stance NSW Environment Minister Rob Stokes told a Clean Energy Week forum last week, “We are making NSW No 1 in energy and environmental policy.” He added: “When it comes … Continue reading Maurice Newman: NSW’s “Green” Dreaming is Nuts
