Angus Taylor Finkel report – STOP THESE THINGS

Liberal MPs Demand End to RET: Crippling Power Costs Leaves Thousands of Australian Families Totally Powerless

July 10, 2017 by stopthesethings 19 Comments

What happens next in Australian politics will determine the proportion of the next generation that grows up in households knowing the benefits of having electricity, as against those children who will enter life and grow up in homes deprived of what is properly considered a necessary component of a decent, civil society. Right now […]

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Rocketing Power Prices Mean Australia’s Renewable Energy Target is Unsustainable and Ready to Implode

June 25, 2017 by stopthesethings 13 Comments

*** Renewables rent-seeker, AGL has launched a propaganda war in Australia’s media, since the release of Alan Finkel’s fantasyland review of Australia’s power market calamity. Finkel’s report promised Australia’s very own Enron, among others, the opportunity to rape and pillage in a power market with an effective 42% RET, dominated by intermittent and unreliable wind […]

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Power Price Punishment Spreads as More Retailers Add 20% to Australian Power Bills

June 19, 2017 by stopthesethings 3 Comments

*** STT called Alan Finkel’s report on Australia’s renewable energy debacle a mix of Lewis Carroll’s Through the Looking Glass and Goldilocks. As commentators chew through Finkel’s rubbery figures, it is apparent that our description was not just fair but accurate. New electricity reform details cut off promised $90 saving The Australian David Crowe 16 […]

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Liberal Coalition Plan to Kill Wind Power Subsidies: Angus Taylor Lays Out Low-Cost CET

June 18, 2017 by stopthesethings 6 Comments

*** Never in the field of political conflict has so much been owed by so many to so few. So few, in fact, we can name him: Angus Taylor, Liberal Member for Hume. In a run of posts this week, STT will detail the fallout from Alan Finkel’s fantasyland review of Australia’s electricity market. In […]

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