Turnbull Turns: Australia’s Federal Government Backs HELE Coal-Fired Power Plants

*** Australia’s Federal government is led by the patrician and aloof, Malcolm Turnbull. A former investment banker and, before that, trusted Consigliere to media heavyweight, the late Kerry Packer, Turnbull is grappling with a renewable energy target that is set to destroy once profitable and productive Australian businesses and punish Australian families for generations to … Continue reading Turnbull Turns: Australia’s Federal Government Backs HELE Coal-Fired Power Plants

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

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

Australia’s Renewable Target in Tatters: Major Retailers Shun Wind & Solar, Electing to Pay $Millions in Retail Power Fines Instead

*** In the week just gone, yet another of STT’s predictions unfolded, with devastating consequences for Australia’s Large-Scale RET and the remnants of a battered and beleaguered wind industry. The LRET was slashed in 2015 simply to avoid the political embarrassment of having too little eligible renewable power dispatched to satisfy the 41,000 GWh target … Continue reading Australia’s Renewable Target in Tatters: Major Retailers Shun Wind & Solar, Electing to Pay $Millions in Retail Power Fines Instead

Wind Power Insanity: Queensland Labor’s Renewable Policy Off the Wall

*** As if the example set by South Australia's disastrous attempt to run on sunshine and breezes could somehow be avoided, Labor Premier Annastacia Palasz­czuk is hell-bent on following SA back to the Dark Ages. The Queensland government is packed with wannabe wind cultists (Queensland has only a couple of tiny wind farms to its … Continue reading Wind Power Insanity: Queensland Labor’s Renewable Policy Off the Wall

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

Turnbull’s Reliable Power Play: Australian PM Pushes Coal-Fired Future

*** Patrician and aloof, Malcolm Turnbull is grappling with an energy debacle, that took root in South Australia (aka 'Australia's wind power capital') and, as a result of the Federal Large-Scale RET, threatens to burst the borders and destroy the entire Eastern Grid. Incidentally, geographically the single largest interconnected electricity grid on the planet. STT … Continue reading Turnbull’s Reliable Power Play: Australian PM Pushes Coal-Fired Future

Will Germany’s Winter Wind & Solar Power Collapse Mean the End of the ‘Energiewende’?

STT has a ‘thing’ for the English language. In the hands of adept practitioners, our mother tongue is capable of conveying all manner of complex concepts and ideas, and doing so with verve and wit.  However, in the hands of the well-paid spin doctors and useful political idiots that run with, and run cover for, … Continue reading Will Germany’s Winter Wind & Solar Power Collapse Mean the End of the ‘Energiewende’?

James Delingpole Hammers the Great Wind Power Fraud: ‘Green Energy is a Charter For Crooks And Liars’

For STT followers, James 'Slim Jim' Delingpole needs no fanfare - this boy tells it like it is - even if that means being pursued by Australia's PC Police for quoting a NSW farmer who (in a mastery of understatement) described the wind industry as being "worse than a paedophile ring". Over to James. Green … Continue reading James Delingpole Hammers the Great Wind Power Fraud: ‘Green Energy is a Charter For Crooks And Liars’