Ian Macfarlane renewable target – STOP THESE THINGS

Time to Tune-In Tony: Coalition’s $46 Billion Wind Industry Rescue Package has Liberal Voters Seething

June 9, 2015 by stopthesethings 4 Comments

**** A week or so back, Tony Abbott’s Coalition struck a deal with Labor involving a $46 billion electricity tax aimed at salvaging what’s left of Australia’s wind industry (see our post here). The ‘deal’ – which has passed the House of Reps – and is on its way to the Senate – is seen […]

Filed Under: Australia, Big wind industry, Big wind politics Tagged With: Australian power prices, cost of LRET, Dan Tehan wind farms, Greg Hunt renewable target, Greg Hunt wind farms, Ian Macfarlane renewable target, Patina Schneider, renewable energy target Tony Abbott, Tony Abbott wind farms, wind power costs

STT Champions in Coalition Ranks – Craig Kelly & Keith Pitt – Turn on $46 Billion LRET Debacle

June 8, 2015 by stopthesethings 5 Comments

**** A week or so back, Tony Abbott’s Coalition struck a deal with Labor involving a $46 billion electricity tax aimed at salvaging what’s left of Australia’s wind industry (see our post here). The ‘deal’ – which has passed the House of Reps – and is on its way to the Senate – is seen […]

Filed Under: Australia, Big wind industry, Big wind politics Tagged With: Coalition wind farm policy, cost of LRET, cost of renewable energy target, Craig Kelly, Craig Kelly wind farms, Greg Hunt renewable target, Ian Macfarlane renewable target, Keith Pitt wind farms, LRET Tony Abbott, wind power climate change, wind power CO2 emissions

Greg Hunt Delivers Coalition’s Political Suicide Manifesto: Liberals Lock-In $46 Billion Power Tax as Wind Industry Rescue Package

May 31, 2015 by stopthesethings 7 Comments

**** The wind industry in Australia is doomed. Australia’s commercial lending institutions know it (calling in their loans and refusing to lend for any new wind farms). And the wind industry knows it – hence the big players’ frantic efforts to ditch their wind farms, cut and run – although these fire sales are as […]

Filed Under: Australia, Big wind industry, Big wind politics Tagged With: Angus Taylor, CER, Chloe Munro clean energy regulator, Clean Energy Council, Coalition renewable policy, collapse Australian wind industry, cost of LRET, Greg Hunt LRET, Greg Hunt renewable target, Ian Macfarlane renewable target, Infigen, Labor LRET deal, renewable energy target Tony Abbott, wind power subsidies

Origin’s Grant King Spells Out the Inevitable Demise of the LRET & the Wind Industry

May 25, 2015 by stopthesethings 3 Comments

**** In last night’s post we took a look at China’s wind power debacle, where grid operators are refusing to hook up wind farms to the grid – due the uneconomic cost of doing so in remote locations – with the result that more than 20% of its wind power capacity sits idle – and […]

Filed Under: Australia, Big wind industry, Big wind politics, power prices Tagged With: Australian Energy Regulator, Ceres wind farm, cost of LRET, Grant King LRET, Greg Hunt renewable target, Ian Macfarlane renewable target, LRET shortfall charge, network cost wind farms, Origin Energy renewable target, Renewable Energy Certificates, wind power costs, wind power purchase agreements

China’s Wind Power Ponzi Scheme Collapsing: Grid Operators Refusing to Connect Wind Farms

May 24, 2015 by stopthesethings 6 Comments

**** In recent times – with the wind industry taking a belting around the planet – its spruikers have taken to clinging to any vestige of hope, with the anxious zeal of shipwreck survivors happening upon a little fortuitous flotsam. One such “hope”, is their belief that China provides the perfect example of what wind […]

Filed Under: Australia, Big wind industry, Big wind politics, China, power prices Tagged With: Greg Hunt LRET, Ian Macfarlane renewable target, LRET carbon tax, LRET Tony Abbott, renewable energy target Tony Abbott, wind farms distributed network, Wind Industry Ponzi scheme, wind power China, wind power costs, wind power south australia, wind power subsidies

Wind Industry’s CO2 Abatement Claims Smashed by Top Physics Professor – Dr Joseph Wheatley

May 17, 2015 by stopthesethings 5 Comments

**** The mandatory RET has seen the cost of around $9 billion worth of Renewable Energy Certificates added to retail power prices and recovered from all Australian power consumers. Under the Large-Scale Renewable Energy Target, a further $45 to $55 billion will be transferred from power consumers to wind power outfits via the REC Tax/Subsidy […]

Filed Under: Australia, Big wind industry, Big wind politics Tagged With: ARREA, Association for Research of Renewable Energy in Australia, CO2 abatement wind power, CO2 wind farms, cost of LRET, cost of RET, David Leyonhjelm wind farms, Greg Hunt LRET, Greg Hunt renewable target, Hamish Cumming, Ian Macfarlane renewable target, Joseph Wheatley, senate wind farm inquiry, wind farms CO2 emissions, wind farms increase CO2, wind power CO2 emissions

Out to Save their Wind Industry Mates, Macfarlane & Hunt Lock-in $46 billion LRET Retail Power Tax

May 12, 2015 by stopthesethings 5 Comments

**** Wind industry front men, Ian “Macca” Macfarlane and, his youthful ward, young Gregory Hunt are out to defy all-comers: the Liberal’s core constituency (of conservative voters); their colleagues, Joe Hockey and Mathias Cormann; boss, Tony Abbott; and political, economic and environmental common sense – as they pump up a deal with Labor to salvage […]

Filed Under: Australia, Big wind industry, Big wind politics Tagged With: Australian power prices, Coalition wind power policy, cost of the RET, Greg Hunt renewable target, Ian Macfarlane renewable target, Joe Hockey wind farms, LRET shortfall charge, Mathias Cormann wind farms, Renewable Energy Target shortfall charge, Tony Abbott renewable energy, wind power costs