*** 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
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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
South Australia’s Risible RET Rescue: Giant $150m Tesla Battery to Power SA for 4 Minutes
*** South Australia’s wind powered energy calamity hit high farce in the week just gone. Its vapid Premier, Jay Weatherill proved the adage that when you’re in a hole it’s best to stop digging; except that he didn’t - and, instead, determined to dig into taxpayers’ empty pockets. Faced with a looming electoral disaster 12 … Continue reading South Australia’s Risible RET Rescue: Giant $150m Tesla Battery to Power SA for 4 Minutes
Power Costs Crippling Business: Australia’s Renewable Target is an Economic Suicide Pact
In much the same way that a multiple truck and car pileup on a freeway draws a growing throng of gawping onlookers, Australia’s energy debacle is attracting a whole new class of journalist to the mounting carnage. The latest to join them is the dour and humourless Paul Kelly. Kelly, Editor-at-Large for The Australian has … Continue reading Power Costs Crippling Business: Australia’s Renewable Target is an Economic Suicide Pact
Born Lucky: Stars Align Perfectly for PM’s Son with Mammoth Bet on Wind Power Outfit Infigen
Life is a lottery. And lottery winners are a mixed bag. Sometimes it’s that battler from Bundaberg who scoops the jackpot, immediately pays off the mortgages of his mates and buys five identical V8 Holden Commodores. On other occasions, the lottery was won at birth. Sometimes the advantage of parentage is immediate and other times … Continue reading Born Lucky: Stars Align Perfectly for PM’s Son with Mammoth Bet on Wind Power Outfit Infigen
Retailers’ Call for ‘Emissions Intensity Scheme’ Signals End for Australia’s Renewable Energy Target
Willing to be accused of stating the bleeding obvious, electricity retailers aren’t in the business of not selling power; they’re in the business of selling power, at a profitable margin, to as many customers as possible. Power retailers in Australia have just come to the horrifying realisation that, with rocketing power prices and an increasingly … Continue reading Retailers’ Call for ‘Emissions Intensity Scheme’ Signals End for Australia’s Renewable Energy Target
Mounting Voter Fury Forces Canadian Renewables Retreat: Subsidies Slashed by $3.8bn
The politics of energy suddenly got real. The fantasy of attempting to run economies on sunshine and breezes has been revealed for just that. Germany's headlong rush into renewables is in tatters, to keep the lights on and business ticking along, it's been forced to build new coal-fired power plants and reinstate previously mothballed plant. … Continue reading Mounting Voter Fury Forces Canadian Renewables Retreat: Subsidies Slashed by $3.8bn
Renewables Revolt: Australians Refuse to Pay One Cent More for Wind & Solar
Among the mantras that feature in wind industry propaganda is the line about Australians being all in favour of renewable energy. That may well be. However, the wind cult are having a hard time convincing the thousands of South Australians who are often left sitting freezing or boiling in the dark - whenever wind power … Continue reading Renewables Revolt: Australians Refuse to Pay One Cent More for Wind & Solar
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