For more than 15 years renewables rent seekers have been peddling the myth that wind and solar power are practically free, and getting cheaper all the time. As Australian power consumers anxiously crack open the envelopes that contain power bills guaranteed to shock over the next few weeks, the crushing bottom line staring back in … Continue reading Politics of Power: Queensland Voters Blame Subsidised Renewables for Rocketing Power Prices
Category: Queensland
Memo to Malcolm: Scrap Australia’s Renewable Energy Target & Collect a Free Political Gift
Malcolm Turnbull is a Prime Minister who has attempted to please everyone and thereby proved the adage that by doing so you end up pleasing no one at all. Conservatives within his own party fulminate every time Malcolm takes to the stump and delivers sops designed to appease inner-city hipsters: his past and plentiful platitudes … Continue reading Memo to Malcolm: Scrap Australia’s Renewable Energy Target & Collect a Free Political Gift
Wind Power Wilts: Brewing Voter Fury Means Coal-Power Set to Drive Australia’s Fossil Fuelled Renaissance
*** In 2016 no two words struck more fear into the hearts of the city-bound, political elite than ‘Trump’ and ‘Brexit’. In both instances, ignorance amongst the media and political class meant that - for them - what were predictable, if not inevitable, results came as visceral, gut-wrenching, bewildering shocks. If there is a single … Continue reading Wind Power Wilts: Brewing Voter Fury Means Coal-Power Set to Drive Australia’s Fossil Fuelled Renaissance
Wind Power Insanity: Queensland Labor’s Renewable Policy Off the Wall
*** As if the example set by South Australia's disastrous attempt to run on sunshine and breezes could somehow be avoided, Labor Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk is hell-bent on following SA back to the Dark Ages. The Queensland government is packed with wannabe wind cultists (Queensland has only a couple of tiny wind farms to its … Continue reading Wind Power Insanity: Queensland Labor’s Renewable Policy Off the Wall
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
Mt Emerald: Tablelands Regional Council Puts People & Environment Before Proposed Wind Farm Disaster
**** Kempton accuses Tableland Regional Council of wind farm ‘hostility’ The Cairns Post Daniel Bateman 28 November 2014 Tablelands Regional Council has been accused of being “openly hostile” towards a controversial wind farm project and trying everything to impede its progress. THE Tablelands Regional Council has been accused of being “openly hostile” towards a controversial … Continue reading Mt Emerald: Tablelands Regional Council Puts People & Environment Before Proposed Wind Farm Disaster
1,000 Sign Petition Against Mt Emerald Wind Farm: Survey says 92% Opposed
The battle to prevent RATCH from getting planning approval for the disaster it proposes for Mount Emerald has reached fever pitch (see our post here). Furious locals have produced a community petition and survey that shows the depth of opposition to the project and the manner in which the developer has ridden roughshod over a … Continue reading 1,000 Sign Petition Against Mt Emerald Wind Farm: Survey says 92% Opposed
Battle for Mount Emerald Reaches Boiling Point
The battle to prevent RATCH from getting planning approval for the disaster it proposes for Mount Emerald has reached fever pitch. With 90% of locals bitterly opposed to the project, common sense would suggest a polite withdrawal by the developer. Instead, however, RATCH has dipped into the standard book of wind industry lies and half-truths … Continue reading Battle for Mount Emerald Reaches Boiling Point
A “Sweet” Renewable Future for FNQ: or, “Is there Method in Palmer’s Madness”?
**** As STT has already pointed out, retaining the Clean Energy Finance Corporation and the mandatory RET makes no sense for a political party which helped to kill the “carbon” tax (with no ETS to replace it) because of the punishment it caused to businesses and households through spiralling electricity bills. Since big Clive’s announcement, … Continue reading A “Sweet” Renewable Future for FNQ: or, “Is there Method in Palmer’s Madness”?
The Battle for Mt Emerald FNQ: What’s the Price for the Sound of Your Silence?
**** Proving the adage that you can never keep a good man down, Senator John Madigan has bobbed up in Far North Queensland and walked straight into a hornet’s nest – this time over gag clauses in land contracts for properties being sold next door to a wind farm by the developer of that wind … Continue reading The Battle for Mt Emerald FNQ: What’s the Price for the Sound of Your Silence?
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