The mandatory RET not only threatens thousands of real jobs, it's threatening Australia's energy security. The perverse market distortion created by the RET allows wind power outfits to dump electricity at prices approaching zero, on those occasions when the wind is blowing (see our post here). The result being that incumbent generators are precluded from … Continue reading Mandatory RET Threatens Jobs & Australian Energy Security
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Jennifer Westacott: Time to End Poorly-Designed Energy Policy
Jennifer Westacott is the chief executive of the Business Council of Australia and has extensive policy experience in both the public and private sectors. She has occupied critical leadership positions in the New South Wales and Victorian governments. This weekend she wrote in The Australian about the devastating impact of poorly-designed energy policy on businesses and energy consumers - and the necessity … Continue reading Jennifer Westacott: Time to End Poorly-Designed Energy Policy
Senator Chris Back: Time to Kill the Mandatory RET
**** WA Liberal Senator, Chris Back launched a stinging attack on the wind industry during a speech in the Federal Senate, yesterday. Responding to a cacophony of wind industry rent seeker bleating, Chris has smashed headlong into three of the wind industry’s greatest myths. The first is that any alteration to the mandatory Renewable Energy … Continue reading Senator Chris Back: Time to Kill the Mandatory RET
Angus Taylor Joins the Wind Farm Rumble to Save Rugby & Rye Park
A little while back, in covering what "community division" caused by wind farms really means, we touched on a developer's "community consultation" that took place at Rye Park (near Goulburn) in NSW (see our post here). The “community consultation” in question was held by Epuron – an outfit hoping to develop what it calls the … Continue reading Angus Taylor Joins the Wind Farm Rumble to Save Rugby & Rye Park
Tony Abbott: RET a Threat to Jobs in All Industries (not just Aluminum Smelters)
**** Over the last week or two the press has been giving a fair bit of coverage to the fact that there are 25 Coalition Members who are trying to find a “Goldilocks solution” to the disaster that is the mandatory Renewable Energy Target. The group - which is being directed by Ian “Macca” Macfarlane … Continue reading Tony Abbott: RET a Threat to Jobs in All Industries (not just Aluminum Smelters)
Renegade PUP – Jacqui Lambie – Heralds Demise of the Mandatory RET
The credibility of any political party pronouncing any policy position is directly proportional to the unity demonstrated by elected members within that party: Politics 101. Barely a week has passed since big Clive Palmer announced that his Palmer United Party (PUP) would use its balance of power in the Senate to block any changes whatsoever … Continue reading Renegade PUP – Jacqui Lambie – Heralds Demise of the Mandatory RET
Alan Moran: Wind Power FAILS on all Scores
**** Renewable energy as a means of reducing emissions fails two key tests Herald Sun Alan Moran 26 June 2014 REGULATORY change will always disadvantage some while advantaging others. But the benefits of deregulation far outpace the costs and Australia carries a weighty regulatory burden, one that has deprived us of enjoying the world’s highest … Continue reading Alan Moran: Wind Power FAILS on all Scores
PM’s Top Advisor – Maurice Newman – Hammers Palmer’s “Inconsistent” RET Plan
As the dust settles on the Palmer/Gore circus of the bizarre, it’s now evident that the PUP’s leader has pulled one the greatest confidence tricks since Paul Newman and Robert Redford joined forces in “The Sting”. As the hard-green-left stared in awe at their grand warming alarmist, Palmer slipped through the net unnoticed. It was … Continue reading PM’s Top Advisor – Maurice Newman – Hammers Palmer’s “Inconsistent” RET Plan
Power Prices“r”UP: Clive Palmer Determined to Destroy Australian Business and Crush Australian Families
**** Australian politics is (sadly) renowned for its “colour” - and there are few more colourful than Queensland’s political “giant”, Clive Palmer. Head of the PUP – or the “Prices“r”UP” Party. Yesterday - in a circus so bizarre that PT Barnum would have been left speechless - Palmer teamed up with none other than Al … Continue reading Power Prices“r”UP: Clive Palmer Determined to Destroy Australian Business and Crush Australian Families
Kelly O’Dwyer & Angus Taylor Join in a Wreck the RET Duet
With the RET Review Panel sharpening their axes – and all set to recommend the abolition of the mandatory RET - the wagons are being circled within Coalition ranks. The vast majority of Coalition members are in favour of scrapping the mandatory RET in its entirety. And barely a day passes without another of their … Continue reading Kelly O’Dwyer & Angus Taylor Join in a Wreck the RET Duet
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