*** In the aftermath of South Australia's 'Black' Wednesday, its biggest miner - BHP Billiton - and last two mineral processors - Whyalla steel maker, Arrium and Port Pirie lead and zinc smelter, Nyrstar, were left powerless and thoroughly crippled as a result. We'll start with a couple of pieces that appeared the day after. … Continue reading South Australia’s Wind Power Debacle Killing Miners, Mineral Processors & Scarce Jobs
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Wind Power Debacle: South Australia an International Joke
*** South Australia is, thanks to its ludicrous attempt to run on sunshine and breezes, now on the World stage: for all the wrong reasons. With total and totally unpredictable collapses in its wind power output, SA is now accustomed to routine load-shedding (dropping suburbs and whole regions off the grid to keep the rest … Continue reading Wind Power Debacle: South Australia an International Joke
Wind Power Calamity Leaves South Australia an International Laughing Stock
*** Only a few months ago, Labor Premier, Jay Weatherill was in Paris spruiking up SA’s wind powered credentials; and cooing about his plans for a 50% Renewable Energy Target. That was then, this is now. His distraught Energy Minister, Tom Koutsantonis is at wits end, as he attempts to placate furious business leaders faced … Continue reading Wind Power Calamity Leaves South Australia an International Laughing Stock
Wind Power Supply and Pricing Fiasco Leaves South Australians ‘Mad as Hell’
*** In yesterday’s post we drew attention to the fact that the wind industry, its parasites and spruikers are having a rather torrid time, as they try to deflect attention from South Australia’s unfolding power supply and pricing calamity. What is crushing their feeble spirits is the fact that, despite their very best efforts, the … Continue reading Wind Power Supply and Pricing Fiasco Leaves South Australians ‘Mad as Hell’
No Salvation: South Australian Businesses Being Crushed by Wind Power Costs
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
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’
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
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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