*** In this collection from Quadrant, Jo Nova and The Australian one solid theme emerges: Australia's energy crisis is entirely self-inflicted and thus it was perfectly avoidable. Among those who saw it coming was Matt Zema - then chief of the Australian Energy Market Operator, who shuffled off this mortal coil way too soon. Before … Continue reading Australia’s Renewable Energy Disaster Was Both Predictable & Avoidable
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Australia’s Runaway Renewable Energy Crisis: the Product of Government, Not Market Failure
*** 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
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 Self-Inflicted Energy Crisis: Renewable Policies a Crime Against the People
Robert Gottliebsen is an economics columnist with The Australian, who has recently weighed into Australia's unfolding renewables driven energy calamity. Late to realise the cost and consequences of Australia's suicidal renewable policies, Gottliebsen is gobsmacked at what can properly be described as a crime against the Australian people. Energy crisis: time to invest in emergency … Continue reading Australia’s Self-Inflicted Energy Crisis: Renewable Policies a Crime Against the People
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
Australian Wind Power Forecast: 75% Chance of More Blackouts Next Summer
*** When your power supply depends on the weather, it somehow seems fitting that the chances of having power should be forecast in much the same way. Robert Gottliebsen is a finance and economics columnist with The Australian who has been out and about, talking to engineers about Australia's energy crisis; and seeking to fine … Continue reading Australian Wind Power Forecast: 75% Chance of More Blackouts Next Summer
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
Snowy Pumped Hydro Scheme Set to Drain ‘Green’ Slush Funds & Starve the Wind Industry of Finance
*** Malcolm Turnbull's Snowy 2.0 pumped hydro plan has set nerves on edge among the wind industry, its parasites and spruikers and ruffled feathers among Labor politicians and their mates who have wedded their own financial futures to wind. Likely to cost in the order of $7-8 billion, Snowy 2.0 is set to starve the … Continue reading Snowy Pumped Hydro Scheme Set to Drain ‘Green’ Slush Funds & Starve the Wind Industry of Finance
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
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