Wind Industry Built on the Graves of 6,000 Australian Manufacturing Workers

As the RET Review Panel sharpens their axes, Members of the Coalition are making it known that the mandatory Renewable Energy Target simply has to go. Here’s what appeared on the front page of The Australian today. ‘Jobs risk’ in clean energy targets The Australian Adam Creighton 16 June 2014 THOUSANDS of jobs across Australia … Continue reading Wind Industry Built on the Graves of 6,000 Australian Manufacturing Workers

Wind Farms: Nothing More than Power-Grid-Parasites

**** Apart from the insane cost of propping up near bankrupt wind power outfits – like Infigen – with $ billions in subsidies in the form of the REC Tax/Subsidy – the wind industry gets to “free-ride” on the Australian electricity consumer in at least 2 ways. The first is getting preferential distribution of the … Continue reading Wind Farms: Nothing More than Power-Grid-Parasites

The Renewable Energy Target & the REC Tax: a Political Time-Bomb for Tony Abbott

**** Following the Coalition’s first budget, Australian political discourse is bouncing firmly along the bottom of the gutter. Barrackers for the hard-green-left lunatic fringe - like the ABC, SBS and the Fairfax Press - have taken to seizing on Coalition “horrors”: like the fact that the Treasurer and Finance Minister were unrepentant about being “caught” … Continue reading The Renewable Energy Target & the REC Tax: a Political Time-Bomb for Tony Abbott