Finally, the message is starting to get through: Australia’s Renewable Energy Target is a $60 billion tax on all Australian power consumers and, therefore, a guaranteed business and job killer. However, those tuned in to the PM, Malcolm Turnbull and his hapless sidekick, Josh Frydenberg wouldn’t know it. Frydenberg continues to rail about Labor’s ‘aspirational’ 50% … Continue reading Australia’s $60bn Business & Job Killing Renewable Energy Target: Turnbull & Frydenberg Dare Not Speak Its Name
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Australia’s Renewable Energy Calamity: The Never Ending Story Continues
Australians probably feel like they’re stuck in the MA+ sequel to The Never Ending Story - a horror movie in which a band of lunatics, driven by greed, stupidity and ideology took a little under a decade to destroy a once wealthy and prosperous Nation, while their renewables rent-seeking mates pocketed more than $60 billion … Continue reading Australia’s Renewable Energy Calamity: The Never Ending Story Continues
Suicidal Tendencies: Australia’s Renewable Energy Target a $60 Billion Business & Job Destroyer
For those, like STT, attempting to expose the greatest economic and environmental fraud of all time, it sometimes feels like bashing our heads against a brick wall. However, every now and again, it feels like our masonry masochism has paid off. Last Friday we awoke to see the top story on the front page of … Continue reading Suicidal Tendencies: Australia’s Renewable Energy Target a $60 Billion Business & Job Destroyer
It’s the Subsidies Stupid: Wind & Solar Go Nowhere Without Bags of Other People’s Money
Time and time again we’re told that wind and solar power are not only competitive with conventional generators, but they’re practically free, and getting cheaper all the time. That myth in the mouth the protagonists lasts about as long as it takes their antagonists to retort, that if wind and solar power really are … Continue reading It’s the Subsidies Stupid: Wind & Solar Go Nowhere Without Bags of Other People’s Money
Australia’s Self-Inflicted Energy Crisis: Federal Government’s Renewable Obsession Cripples Country
Australia’s self-inflicted energy crisis is the product of an obsessive ideology, wedded to the nonsensical belief that modern economies can be powered by sunshine and breezes. The Federal Energy and Environment Minister, Josh Frydenberg never ceases to disappoint. His ignorance is only matched by his lack of shame. In the week just gone, Josh put … Continue reading Australia’s Self-Inflicted Energy Crisis: Federal Government’s Renewable Obsession Cripples Country
No Comparison: Why Wind Power Can Never ‘Compete’ with Conventional Generators
The well-chewed ‘chestnut, about wind power being cheaper than coal or gas-fired power is a nonsense. For a start, the Operations and Maintenance costs of running wind turbines is in the order of $24 for every MWh dispatched – see our post here and this from our favourite whipping boys, Infigen: The wind might … Continue reading No Comparison: Why Wind Power Can Never ‘Compete’ with Conventional Generators
South Australia: Sublime One Day, Ridiculous the Next – Premier Set to Squander $1.2bn on Solar-Thermal Boondoggle
South Australians must wake each morning not knowing whether to laugh or cry. With unemployment already the worst in the Nation and soon to rise fast - when General Motors Holden shuts the door on SA’s last motor manufacturing plant in October - the highest power prices in the world (with worse to come) … Continue reading South Australia: Sublime One Day, Ridiculous the Next – Premier Set to Squander $1.2bn on Solar-Thermal Boondoggle
Appetite for Destruction: Wind Power Obsessed NSW Energy Minister Deluded & Dangerous
Spanish philosopher, George Santayana was credited with the adage that ‘Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it’. But, as pointed out by American author, William Faulkner, “The past is never dead. It’s not even past.” In Australia’s so-called wind power capital, South Australia, how its self-inflicted power pricing and supply … Continue reading Appetite for Destruction: Wind Power Obsessed NSW Energy Minister Deluded & Dangerous
High Farce: Renewable Energy Target Sending Australia Broke
Tony Abbott’s RET, emissions policies made energy policy a farce The Australian Judith Sloan 12 August 2017 Tony Abbott may have seen the light on energy policy since ceasing to be prime minister. But when he had the top job, he made two fatal mistakes. The first was to agree to the renewable energy target … Continue reading High Farce: Renewable Energy Target Sending Australia Broke
Politics of Power: Queensland Voters Blame Subsidised Renewables for Rocketing Power Prices
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
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