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Political ‘System Black’: South Australia’s Wind Power Debacle Turns Renewable Policy Toxic

February 19, 2017 by stopthesethings 3 Comments

*** Politics is a cruel game, at the best of times. But Australia’s renewable energy debacle is testing the wits of even the brightest of our political betters. The political graveyard is littered with those brave and foolhardy enough to ignore the average voting punter; recent interments include Hillary Clinton, buried in a landslide of […]

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SA’s Wind Power Debacle Escalates as Australian Wind Power Subsidies Hit $3 Billion a Year

August 2, 2016 by stopthesethings 6 Comments

Renewables’ subsidies put sting into power bills The Australian Michael Owen 26 July 2016 Renewable energy output in Australia is subsidised by almost $3 billion a year, more than 19 times the amount for generation from fossil fuels, a report by an economic consultancy says. The report by Principal Economics found renewable energy subsidies added […]

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Denmark Slashes Wind Power Subsidies to Curb Runaway Power Costs

May 1, 2016 by stopthesethings 14 Comments

When the wind industry and its worshippers start chanting their mantras about the ‘wonders’ of wind, it isn’t long before they start preaching about the examples purportedly set by the Europeans; and, in particular, the Nordic nations. That the great wind power fraud was driven by Denmark’s struggling turbine maker, Vestas probably has a fair […]

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Wind Industry Loses Support of Lunatic Fringe: Green-Left Blog ‘New Matilda’ Turns Against the Wind Power Fraud

February 1, 2016 by stopthesethings 14 Comments

**** When the following piece crossed STT’s inbox, the editor thought it to be some kind of April fool’s joke, delivered a few months early. But, no. Knock us down with a feather, the article that follows did, in fact, appear on ‘New Matilda’ – a politically correct, hard-‘green’-left bastion for all things cuddly and […]

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Britain’s Economic Nightmare Unfolds: Wind Power Costs Killing Thousands of REAL Jobs

October 29, 2015 by stopthesethings 1 Comment

**** A few posts back we focused on the naked malice of Labor’s Bill Shorten – as he derided Joanne Kermond on national television. Joanne is among the many victims of Pacific Hydro’s non-compliant Cape Bridgewater disaster – an outfit owned by Bill’s Labor/Union buddies, which has been defrauding the Commonwealth for nearly 7 years: […]

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Wind Power Dreamers Put Australians on Highway to Energy ‘Hell’

August 24, 2015 by stopthesethings 2 Comments

*** When Electricity Bill Shorten came out to announce Labor’s 50% renewable energy target, a month back back, Tony Abbott quite rightly jumped on it as an economy destroying policy, that would drive power prices through the roof; energy intensive businesses offshore; and households into a dim, dark electricity free future. And fair enough: Adam […]

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Wind Power Fraud Finally Exposed: Senator John Madigan Details LRET’s Astronomical 45 Billion Dollar Cost to Power Consumers

June 20, 2015 by stopthesethings 20 Comments

When the Chinese make the suggestion “may you live in interesting times” they don’t mean you well – it’s more of a veiled warning about the perils of what’s lurking over the horizon – and some even characterise it as a curse. Well, it seems that the wind industry is living in VERY interesting times. […]

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