Arrium Steel's Gerard Mahoney: SA's power play the last roll of the dice. *** South Australia’s unfolding energy calamity, has drawn all sorts of self-professed experts out of the woodwork; desk-bound boffins, who all seem to have ready-made answers to SA’s self-inflicted power supply and pricing disaster. However, most of their “solutions” involve spending hundreds … Continue reading No Salvation: South Australian Businesses Being Crushed by Wind Power Costs
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South Australia’s Wind Power Disaster Kills BHP’s Plans to Expand Olympic Dam Mine
BHP started life in 1885 as the brainchild of station hands and boundary riders on Mount Gipps station in western New South Wales. The town that sprung up around their find of one of the largest lead, silver and zinc deposits in the world, Broken Hill, shares the name with the company, ‘Broken Hill Proprietary’. … Continue reading South Australia’s Wind Power Disaster Kills BHP’s Plans to Expand Olympic Dam Mine
South Australia’s Wind Powered Train Wreck: SA’s Business Leaders Warn Other States – ‘It’s Your Turn Next’
Only the Germans could come up with a single word to capture the churlish sentiment of feeling a sense of malicious glee at another’s downfall. However, to STT the gleeful component of ‘schadenfreude’ is tempered with the realisation that there is no escape for any Australian from the debacle, in which South Australians now find … Continue reading South Australia’s Wind Powered Train Wreck: SA’s Business Leaders Warn Other States – ‘It’s Your Turn Next’
With the Lessons from SA’s Wind Power Disaster Nothing Justifies the Endless Acoustic Torture of Wind Farm Victims
The wind industry in Australia today is in a state of constant hysteria. The events that have culminated in South Australia’s electricity supply and pricing calamity have thrown a spotlight on wind power, with public sentiment shifting from benign indifference to outright hostility (readers of The Australian’s online stories will find hundreds of comments from … Continue reading With the Lessons from SA’s Wind Power Disaster Nothing Justifies the Endless Acoustic Torture of Wind Farm Victims
South Australia’s Lessons for the World: Subsidised Wind Power The Fastest Route to Social & Economic Disaster
Judith Sloan: lays out a lesson on avoiding economic & social disaster. **** In a week when the mainstream media have been (finally) laying out the catastrophic results of South Australia’s ludicrous attempt to power itself on sunshine and breezes, it would be rude not to include this cracking article penned by The Australian's top-flight … Continue reading South Australia’s Lessons for the World: Subsidised Wind Power The Fastest Route to Social & Economic Disaster
South Australia’s Wind Power Disaster: No Solution in Sight
‘Panic’ is the only word capable of describing the mood among South Australia’s policymakers. Over the last few posts, STT has detailed a wealth of media coverage on SA’s self-inflicted energy debacle. The former general manager of the Electricity Trust of South Australia (ETSA), Bruce Dinham is one of many groping around (knowing SA’s power … Continue reading South Australia’s Wind Power Disaster: No Solution in Sight
South Australia’s Wind Power Debacle Leaves Labor Government Begging for Baseload Power
STT followers might be tiring of our focus on South Australia. However, the disaster - both economic and social - unfolding in SA should be taken as a warning to any policy maker foolish enough to believe that an economy can be powered using sunshine and breezes. Here’s another take on the debacle from The … Continue reading South Australia’s Wind Power Debacle Leaves Labor Government Begging for Baseload Power
South Australia’s Energy Fiasco: Wind Power Dropout Leaves BHP with Whopping $2.5 Million Power Bill
Continuing our focus on Australia’s “wind power capital”, South Australia and its self-inflicted energy disaster, here is another story outlining the debacle, this time from The Advertiser. BHP’s SA power bill hit $2.5m - on a single day The Advertiser Luke Griffiths 16 July 2016 THE power bill of the state’s largest private employer recently … Continue reading South Australia’s Energy Fiasco: Wind Power Dropout Leaves BHP with Whopping $2.5 Million Power Bill
Panic Hits South Australia: Wind Power Debacle Sends Power Prices Through the Roof
*** South Australia’s witless Labor government is in a state of full blown panic. Since the closure of Alinta’s Northern and Playford power stations at Port Augusta, peaking power operators (using highly inefficient Open Cycle Gas Turbines or even diesel generators) have been gouging SA’s crippled power market, every time wind power output collapses. The … Continue reading Panic Hits South Australia: Wind Power Debacle Sends Power Prices Through the Roof
South Australia’s Wind Power Nightmare Crushing its Biggest Employers
For over 3½ years, STT has been warning about the pending social and economic disaster in Australia’s so-called “wind power capital”, South Australia. A few weeks back we covered yet another crippling 12% hike in retail power prices, to be suffered by cash-strapped South Australian households; those who, of course, aren’t among the tens of … Continue reading South Australia’s Wind Power Nightmare Crushing its Biggest Employers
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