*** Governments' renewable energy push to blame for crisis The Australian Financial Review Ben Potter 7 April 2017 The energy sector is in disarray because of government failure, not market failure, former Productivity Commission chairman Gary Banks says. He told Infrastructure Partnerships Australia the spectacle of South Australian Premier Jay Weatherill blaming the private sector … Continue reading Australia’s Runaway Renewable Energy Crisis: the Product of Government, Not Market Failure
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Aboriginal Leader, Warren Mundine Demands End to the Madness: Australia’s Renewable Policy Punishing the Poorest & Most Vulnerable
A few weeks back we reported on a very timely call by an Australian Aboriginal leader, Warren Mundine for Australians to grow up and go Nuclear. Warren isn't about to let up. Clearly worried about the miserable future being laid out for the poorest and most vulnerable Australians, Warren is, quite rightly, demanding an end … Continue reading Aboriginal Leader, Warren Mundine Demands End to the Madness: Australia’s Renewable Policy Punishing the Poorest & Most Vulnerable
Australia’s Suicidal RET: Eastern States Soon to Follow South Australia Over its Wind Power Cliff
Maurice Newman was the former head of Deutsche Bank, the ABC and ASX so you’d be forgiven for thinking that he might know a thing or two about economics and business. Maurice doesn’t mince his words about these things: calling wind power “a crime against the people” (see our post here). Maurice has also previously … Continue reading Australia’s Suicidal RET: Eastern States Soon to Follow South Australia Over its Wind Power Cliff
Nuclear Power: the ‘Grown Ups’ Option for Australia’s Unfolding Power Crisis
maturity, noun: the quality of behaving mentally and emotionally like an adult; a very advanced or developed form or state. If there is one attribute sorely missed in Australia’s energy debate it has to be ‘maturity’. Now that Australia’s suicidal renewable energy policies are starting to bite, destroying the viability of our cheapest and most … Continue reading Nuclear Power: the ‘Grown Ups’ Option for Australia’s Unfolding Power Crisis
Australia’s Energy Crisis: Hazelwood Closure Means Higher Prices & More Blackouts
The Federal Large-Scale RET has just claimed another scalp in the shape of 1,600MW of reliable base-load plant at Hazelwood, Victoria – as well as more than 1,000 well-paid blue-collar jobs and an entire regional community. That loss follows hot on the heels of the breathtakingly stupid decision by South Australia’s hapless Labor government to … Continue reading Australia’s Energy Crisis: Hazelwood Closure Means Higher Prices & More Blackouts
How Political Lunacy Sabotaged Australia’s Once Reliable & Affordable Power Suply
If what Australia's political brains trust has done to its once reliable and affordable power supply had been done by external agents, it would have been branded an act of terrorism. The so-called 'wind power capital' of Australia, South Australia has become an international laughing stock: statewide blackouts, routine load shedding and rocketing power prices … Continue reading How Political Lunacy Sabotaged Australia’s Once Reliable & Affordable Power Suply
SA’s Deluded Labor Government Warned Wind Power Push Would Wreck its Grid Way Back in 2009
*** Desperate, delusional and in denial, South Australia’s hapless Labor government is taking a well-deserved flogging in the press. SA, the so-called ‘wind power capital’, instead of setting an example of how to run on sunshine and breezes, has become an international laughing stock. Rocketing prices, repeated statewide blackouts and mass load shedding have made … Continue reading SA’s Deluded Labor Government Warned Wind Power Push Would Wreck its Grid Way Back in 2009
Energy Disaster Spells the End for Australia’s Renewable Energy Target
It happened in the blink of an eye: Australia went from energy heavyweight to a country in crisis looking for the equivalent of life support. Since STT got going in December 2012, we have drifted from frustration to despair and back waiting and hoping for mainstream journalists to recognise the existential threat posed by Australia's … Continue reading Energy Disaster Spells the End for Australia’s Renewable Energy Target
Turnbull Plays ‘The Man from Snowy River’ in Uncosted Pumped Hydro Plan
Hardly renowned for his political masterstrokes, Malcolm Turnbull has just drenched the opposition with his Snowy 2.0 plan. The Snowy Hydro Scheme is – without doubt – the single greatest renewable energy project ever built in Australia – with a mammoth 3,950 MW of capacity, which is available on-demand (unlike the infantile nonsense that is wind … Continue reading Turnbull Plays ‘The Man from Snowy River’ in Uncosted Pumped Hydro Plan
Elephant in the Room: Australia’s Renewable Energy Target the Cause of an Energy Calamity
Australia's energy crisis is all self-inflicted and largely down to the scaremongering waged by global warming catastrophists. A rolling jumble of false premises and false promises, the frenzied and ill-thought-out reaction to the 'threat' posed by CO2 gas has all but destroyed Australia's once natural advantage of having abundant, cheap and reliable energy. Here's The … Continue reading Elephant in the Room: Australia’s Renewable Energy Target the Cause of an Energy Calamity