Malcolm Turnbull is a Prime Minister who has attempted to please everyone and thereby proved the adage that by doing so you end up pleasing no one at all. Conservatives within his own party fulminate every time Malcolm takes to the stump and delivers sops designed to appease inner-city hipsters: his past and plentiful platitudes … Continue reading Memo to Malcolm: Scrap Australia’s Renewable Energy Target & Collect a Free Political Gift
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Wind Power Wilts: Brewing Voter Fury Means Coal-Power Set to Drive Australia’s Fossil Fuelled Renaissance
*** In 2016 no two words struck more fear into the hearts of the city-bound, political elite than ‘Trump’ and ‘Brexit’. In both instances, ignorance amongst the media and political class meant that - for them - what were predictable, if not inevitable, results came as visceral, gut-wrenching, bewildering shocks. If there is a single … Continue reading Wind Power Wilts: Brewing Voter Fury Means Coal-Power Set to Drive Australia’s Fossil Fuelled Renaissance
Cuomo Curses New York to the Dark Ages with $360m on Subsidised Wind Power
*** In 2017, with examples like Germany, Ontario and South Australia on file, any political leader still pushing subsidised wind power on his or her people is either a certifiable lunatic or is in on it. Andrew Cuomo, the Governor of New York State simply leaves that question begging with his move to throw $360 … Continue reading Cuomo Curses New York to the Dark Ages with $360m on Subsidised Wind Power
Australia’s Energy Debacle: Politicians Fiddle While Rome Burns
*** Alan Moran needs no intro to STT followers. Here he gives the morally bankrupt idiots that pretend to govern us a well-deserved spray, over the energy debacle that has turned Australia - once an energy power house - into an international joke. Trump and Australian political dithering over energy costs Catallaxy Files Alan Moran … Continue reading Australia’s Energy Debacle: Politicians Fiddle While Rome Burns
Australia’s Energy Debacle Unplugged: Liberal Senator Chris Back Slams Wind Power
There are very few Australian politicians who have bothered to do the slightest bit of homework on Australia's energy policy, and even fewer still have taken the time to understand how Australia's ridiculous renewable energy targets have destroyed once reliable grids and driven power prices through the roof. One who has managed to get to … Continue reading Australia’s Energy Debacle Unplugged: Liberal Senator Chris Back Slams Wind Power
Wind Power Debacle: Retail Businesses Belted by South Australia’s Rocketing Power Prices
In 2002, then Labor Premier, Mike Rann hitched South Australia's wagon to wind power. 15 years later, his successors and former subjects get to reap what he sowed. A grid on the brink of collapse, routine load shedding and statewide blackouts have left South Australia an international laughing stock. Its vapid Premier, Jay Weatherill occupies … Continue reading Wind Power Debacle: Retail Businesses Belted by South Australia’s Rocketing Power Prices
It’s Time for Frydenberg & Turnbull to Come Clean on the Cost of Subsidised Wind Power
*** STT has a hard time working out whether Federal Energy & Environment Minister, Josh Frydenberg is simply thick, obtuse or knee-deep in the greatest government sanctioned rort of all time? Faced with a disintegrating electricity grid, skyrocketing power prices and a renewable energy policy on the brink of collapse, Frydenberg is playing political games, … Continue reading It’s Time for Frydenberg & Turnbull to Come Clean on the Cost of Subsidised Wind Power
The Criminal Cost of the Federal Government’s Obsession with Wind Power
*** Alan Moran needs no intro for STT followers. Here's another cracking piece, courtesy of Catallaxy Files Billions wasted in economy sapping energy regulations Catallaxy Files Alan Moran 16 December 2016 Each year the energy regulator, the Australian Energy Market Commission (AEMC), publishes data on the make-up of electricity costs for households. This breaks down … Continue reading The Criminal Cost of the Federal Government’s Obsession with Wind Power
Vermont’s Wind Industry Doomed as REC Price Plummets & Trump Signals End to PTC
Renewable energy’s economic model collapsing as REC prices plummet Vermont Watchdog Michael Bielawski 9 December 2016 Green energy projects are often said to be cost-effective, but one of the financial aids that makes them viable has lost significant value, and appears to be on the verge of collapsing. Over the past year, renewable energy credits, … Continue reading Vermont’s Wind Industry Doomed as REC Price Plummets & Trump Signals End to PTC
Scotland’s Wind Power Lunancy Escalates: Scots Forced to Pay £90m a Year to Wind Farms that Will Never Deliver Power
*** If Scots thought that their energy 'policy' couldn't get any more bizarre, Nicola Sturgeon's utterly bonkers decision to pay £90m a year to wind farms that will never deliver a single watt, has taken them on a trip with Alice down the rabbit hole. Sturgeon's wind turbines cost UK £90m a year - to stay … Continue reading Scotland’s Wind Power Lunancy Escalates: Scots Forced to Pay £90m a Year to Wind Farms that Will Never Deliver Power