**** STT could be forgiven for being just a little smug after events unfolded last Sunday night (1 November 2015) in Australia’s “Wind Farm Capital”, South Australia. As our post - Wind Power Disaster Unfolds: SA Facing Total Blackouts, Rocketing Power Prices & Thousands More Chopped from the Grid - was being put together for … Continue reading Wind Industry’s Armageddon: Wind Farm Output Collapse Leaves 110,000 South Australian Homes & Businesses Powerless
Category: South Australia
Wind Power Disaster Unfolds: SA Facing Total Blackouts, Rocketing Power Prices & Thousands More Chopped from the Grid
**** To call what South Australia’s Labor government has ‘gifted’ their constituents an energy ‘policy’, is to flatter it as involving some kind of genuine ‘design’. It’s an economic debacle, pure and simple. The current mess started under former Premier, Mike Rann – a former spin-doctor, whose relatives lined up at the wind power subsidy … Continue reading Wind Power Disaster Unfolds: SA Facing Total Blackouts, Rocketing Power Prices & Thousands More Chopped from the Grid
SA – Australia’s ‘Wind Power Capital’ – Pays the World’s Highest Power Prices and Wonders Why it’s an Economic Basket Case
**** Once upon a time, in a land far, far away there was a veritable manufacturing and industrial nirvana. Post WWII, its population grew at a phenomenal rate; and so too did the level of prosperity enjoyed by thousands of migrants fleeing to it from war ravaged Europe - cheap and abundant food, decent, affordable … Continue reading SA – Australia’s ‘Wind Power Capital’ – Pays the World’s Highest Power Prices and Wonders Why it’s an Economic Basket Case
Victoria’s Wind Rush sees 34,000 Households Chopped from the Power Grid
It took a while for Victoria to catch up with Australia’s wind power capital, South Australia when it comes to the roll-out of giant fans. Now, just like SA – the cost of doing so is hitting home – or rather tens of thousands of Victorian homes - with a vengeance. Soaring power costs leads … Continue reading Victoria’s Wind Rush sees 34,000 Households Chopped from the Power Grid
David Mortimer, Turbine Host: An “Inconvenient” Wind Industry Fact
**** With Steven Cooper's Cape Bridgewater study sending shock-waves through the wind industry around the world (see our posts here and here and here), the wind industry - always prickly when it comes to fronting up to "inconvenient" facts (see our post here) - is more defensive than ever. In Australia, one long-running "inconvenience" for … Continue reading David Mortimer, Turbine Host: An “Inconvenient” Wind Industry Fact
Greg Hunt (“Dumb”) & Ian Macfarlane (“Dumber”) Out to Send ALL Australians Into Power Price Penury
Ian "Macca" Macfarlane and his youthful ward, Greg Hunt are the flies in the Coalition's political ointment, when it comes to engineering anything like a sensible policy on energy. Both Macfarlane's and Hunt's offices are filled with wind industry plants and stooges, like Vesta's Ken McAlpine's best mate, Patrick Gibbons; and both Macca and Hunt … Continue reading Greg Hunt (“Dumb”) & Ian Macfarlane (“Dumber”) Out to Send ALL Australians Into Power Price Penury
Casualties of South Australia’s Wind Power Debacle Mount: Thousands Can’t Afford Power
**** The new protectionism: renewable energy industry’s shameless self-promotion Catallaxy Files Alan Moran 5 December 2014 According to Christopher Flavin, the President emeritus of the Worldwatch Institute, in a few years’ time wind energy will not need to be subsidised. Oh wait! He said that back in 1984. And he was not alone, Booz, Allen … Continue reading Casualties of South Australia’s Wind Power Debacle Mount: Thousands Can’t Afford Power
Senator Matt Canavan: Australia’s RET Policy: “Robin Hood visits Bizarro World”
**** Labor’s energy policy nothing but wind The Australian Matt Canavan 4 December 2014 GEORGE Orwell once said that political language was designed to “give an appearance of solidity to pure wind”. Step forward exhibit A and the Labor Party’s explanation for refusing to fix the mess that is Australian renewable energy policy. Mark Butler … Continue reading Senator Matt Canavan: Australia’s RET Policy: “Robin Hood visits Bizarro World”
Fighting the Great Wind Power Fraud? You’re Not Alone
Hard to think it's only been a Year since we took the fight to Canberra. On 18 June 2013, 364 pro-farming and pro-rural community representatives - from Tolga in Far North Queensland, Coopers Gap in Southern QLD; from all over the Tablelands of NSW; a big contingent of Victorians and South Australians; and a contingent … Continue reading Fighting the Great Wind Power Fraud? You’re Not Alone
South Australian Wind Power “FAILS”
**** South Australia is held up by the wind industry and its parasites as an Australian wind power "Supermodel" - as in this tissue of lies pitched up by Thai turbine-terrorists, RATCH: MEWF Newsletter May 2014. RATCH's goons have always had a "troubled" relationship with truth and reality, so you would be excused for setting … Continue reading South Australian Wind Power “FAILS”
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