*** With the exception of the wind industry, South Australia's hapless Labor government will never be accused of economic favouritism: it treats all of its business owners with utter contempt. Rocketing power prices, routine load shedding and blackouts affect miners, bakers and brewers, alike. BHP Billiton warns for crisis in power market The Australian Matt … Continue reading Economic Carnage: SA’s Rocketing Power Prices Crippling Miners, Bakers & Brewers Alike
Category: South Australia
Renewables Revolt: Australians Refuse to Pay One Cent More for Wind & Solar
Among the mantras that feature in wind industry propaganda is the line about Australians being all in favour of renewable energy. That may well be. However, the wind cult are having a hard time convincing the thousands of South Australians who are often left sitting freezing or boiling in the dark - whenever wind power … Continue reading Renewables Revolt: Australians Refuse to Pay One Cent More for Wind & Solar
Chaotic & Costly: Subsidised Wind Power Killing South Australian Business
BHP being battered by SA's wind power obsession. *** As an economy, South Australia is so far under water it's drowning, not waving. Battered by an erratic power supply and prices which have doubled in the last 12 months, South Australia's few remaining industrial businesses are besides themselves. Power policies a threat to nation: business … Continue reading Chaotic & Costly: Subsidised Wind Power Killing South Australian Business
SA’s Deluded Labor Government Determined to Kill Jobs with 50% Renewable Energy Target
*** In a week when Coca-Cola Amatil announced that it would close its Adelaide bottling plant with the loss of 200 jobs, one might have reasonably expected South Australia's hapless Labor government to have taken the opportunity to retreat from its disastrous energy policy. To the contrary, Jay Weatherill & Co sought to double down … Continue reading SA’s Deluded Labor Government Determined to Kill Jobs with 50% Renewable Energy Target
Power & Politics: Coca Cola Abandons South Australia to Escape Crippling Power Prices & Chaotic Supply
*** In Australia's, so-called 'wind power capital', South Australia, meaningful and lasting employment is a rare and beautiful thing. Last week, Coca-Cola Amatil announced that it is shutting its Adelaide bottling plant, which has delivered the 'real thing' to South Australians since 1939. The loss of around 200 jobs in the economic basket case that … Continue reading Power & Politics: Coca Cola Abandons South Australia to Escape Crippling Power Prices & Chaotic Supply
South Australia’s Wind Power Debacle: Supermarkets Sacking Staff, While Sales of Portable Generators Boom
Reliable, secure and affordable electricity is one of those things that the last few generations of Australians have largely taken for granted. Not so in Australia’s so-called ‘wind power capital’, South Australia. These days, Croweaters count their blessings if power is delivered at all and count their pennies every time they’re hit with a power … Continue reading South Australia’s Wind Power Debacle: Supermarkets Sacking Staff, While Sales of Portable Generators Boom
How Subsidised Wind Power Destroyed South Australia’s Once Reliable & Affordable Power Supply
*** Another day, another total wind power output collapse, another statewide blackout. Sure the political spin doctors called it ‘load shedding’, but for the 90,000 families left boiling in the dark, watching their perishables perish the result is precisely the same. The wind cult and its fellow travellers descended into apoplexy, when conventional generators failed … Continue reading How Subsidised Wind Power Destroyed South Australia’s Once Reliable & Affordable Power Supply
South Australia Powerless (Again): Sudden 1,000MW Wind Power Output Collapse Leaves 90,000 Families Boiling in the Dark
‘Smug’: adjective - having or showing an excessive pride in oneself or one's achievements. Eg, “he was feeling smug after his win”. synonyms: self-satisfied, complacent, self-congratulatory, superior, puffed up, pleased with oneself, self-approving, well pleased, proud of oneself. Yes, that’s STT: but our sense of self-satisfaction is not gleeful. STT has been spelling out the … Continue reading South Australia Powerless (Again): Sudden 1,000MW Wind Power Output Collapse Leaves 90,000 Families Boiling in the Dark
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 Subsidies Become Turnbull’s Worst Political Nightmare: Australia’s RET Must Go Now
*** At the risk of sounding like a broken record - or for the younger generation a stuttering CD or a corrupted MP3 file - STT has said it before and will keep saying it: any policy which is unsustainable will fail, crushed by its own imponderable weight or ignominiously scrapped by those who created … Continue reading Wind Power Subsidies Become Turnbull’s Worst Political Nightmare: Australia’s RET Must Go Now
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