**** The wind industry in Australia is in full-scale panic because the recently completed Senate Inquiry into the great wind power fraud turned a (long-overdue) blowtorch on the biggest rort in Australian history, with their thumping report on Australia's wind power fraud - available here: Senate Report The first 200 pages involve a detailed and thorough … Continue reading Three Magnificent Women Take On Australia’s Monstrous Wind Power Outfits & their Pathetic Political Backers
Tag: David Leyonhjelm
Wind Industry Armageddon: Power Retailers Win Round One in Battle to Kill LRET
**** As STT has pointed out, just once or twice, the policy debacle that is the Large-Scale Renewable Energy Target (LRET) is completely unsustainable, on every level: economic, social and political. In the absence of the mandated subsidies (“the carrot”) directed to wind power outfits, and the mandated penalties (“the stick”) whacked on retailers under … Continue reading Wind Industry Armageddon: Power Retailers Win Round One in Battle to Kill LRET
Pacific Hydro’s Cape Bridgewater Wind Farm Nightmare Unfolds as Senate Inquiry Hits Portland
*** The Australian Senate Inquiry into the great wind power fraud kicked off last Monday, 30 March. And, fitting it was, that this band of merry men - Queensland National Senator, Matthew Canavan, WA Liberal, Chris Back, independents Nick Xenophon and John Madigan, Liberal Democrat, David Leyonhjelm, Family First Senator, Bob Day (and one, not-so-happy, … Continue reading Pacific Hydro’s Cape Bridgewater Wind Farm Nightmare Unfolds as Senate Inquiry Hits Portland
STT’s Australian of the Year Awards
**** Australians are a weird mob - as that, somewhat historically inaccurate, mash up demonstrates. “Cooky” was, of course, a Yorkshireman; and, strictly speaking, Burke, of Burke and Wills fame, was an Irish born solider and policeman. Ned Kelly, the only gluten intolerant bushranger in history - born in Victoria, to an Irish convict father … Continue reading STT’s Australian of the Year Awards
Alan Jones interviews David Leyonhjelm on the Senate’s Inquiry Into the Great Wind Power Fraud & Cross-Bench LRET Plan
**** The wind industry in Australia is in full-scale panic because the Senate's cross-benchers (who hold the balance of power in the Upper House) have won Coalition support for their Inquiry into the great wind power fraud: which will turn a (long-overdue) blowtorch on the biggest rort in Australian history (see our post here). Adding … Continue reading Alan Jones interviews David Leyonhjelm on the Senate’s Inquiry Into the Great Wind Power Fraud & Cross-Bench LRET Plan
Australian Wind Industry in a Tailspin as Senate Sets Up Inquiry Into the Great Wind Power Fraud & Cross-Benchers Lay Out Plans for the LRET
**** STT recently covered a motion proposed by cross-bench Senators Leyonhjelm, Madigan, Day, Xenophon; with the support of the Coalition, through their Deputy Government Whip in the Senate, STT Champion, WA Senator, Chris Back to establish a wide-ranging inquiry into the wind industry in Australia (see our post here). It gives us much pleasure to … Continue reading Australian Wind Industry in a Tailspin as Senate Sets Up Inquiry Into the Great Wind Power Fraud & Cross-Benchers Lay Out Plans for the LRET
Senator David Leyonhjelm on Australia’s Energy Future
Senator David Leyonhjelm is one of the 8 cross-benchers capable of turning Australia’s disastrous energy policy around during the life of this Parliament. He’s already come out swinging with a superbly crafted attack on the debacle that is the mandatory Renewable Energy Target which featured in The Australian a little while back (see our post … Continue reading Senator David Leyonhjelm on Australia’s Energy Future
Senator David Leyonhjelm: “Wake Up Clive!” – It’s Time to Kill the RET & Save the Poor
**** STT hears that Tony Abbott is hard at work on his mission to kill off the mandatory RET - with the aim of bringing an end to the most expensive and pointless policy of all time. One of the cross-bench Senators the PM needs to help demolish it during this parliament is David Leyonhjelm … Continue reading Senator David Leyonhjelm: “Wake Up Clive!” – It’s Time to Kill the RET & Save the Poor
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