Vain and dishonest, former Labor PM (and Muppet-in-Chief), Kevin Rudd has a lot to answer for. When his predecessor, Liberal PM, John Howard brought in a renewable energy target in 2001, it was set at a tokenistic 2%: clearly a sop to the wind cult, but for Australian businesses and families, a 'nothing to see … Continue reading Australia’s Power Grid Groans: Wind Power Obsession Threatens Lives & Livelihoods
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Chaotic & Costly: Subsidised Wind Power Killing South Australian Business
BHP being battered by SA's wind power obsession. *** As an economy, South Australia is so far under water it's drowning, not waving. Battered by an erratic power supply and prices which have doubled in the last 12 months, South Australia's few remaining industrial businesses are besides themselves. Power policies a threat to nation: business … Continue reading Chaotic & Costly: Subsidised Wind Power Killing South Australian Business
Reality Bites: ‘Green’ Dreamers Struggling to Spin Away South Australia’s Failed Wind Power Experiment
*** It's been barely 5 months since South Australia experienced a state wide blackout on 28 September, when a typically vigorous spring storm delivered wind speeds in excess of 90km/h, causing the majority of turbines operating at its 18 wind farms to automatically shutdown to avoid self-destruction. The ensuing collapse in wind power output overloaded … Continue reading Reality Bites: ‘Green’ Dreamers Struggling to Spin Away South Australia’s Failed Wind Power Experiment
‘System Black’: South Australia’s Wind Power Experiment a Costly, Abject Failure
*** No other two word combination strikes more fear into the hearts of the wind industry and its political backers than 'South Australia'. Rocketing power prices, routine load shedding and mass blackouts are the inevitable results of South Australia's wind power experiment. Tom Quirk trained as a nuclear physicist at the University of Melbourne. He … Continue reading ‘System Black’: South Australia’s Wind Power Experiment a Costly, Abject Failure
One Nation Looms: Federal Coalition Must Scrap the RET to Avoid Drifting to Defeat
*** In September 2015, Malcolm Turnbull drew the political dagger and thrust it into a sitting Prime Minister, Tony Abbott. There are plenty in the Liberal party that will never forgive Turnbull for his treachery, but there are legions more among the Australian voting public still ready to exact revenge. Last week Tony Abbott appeared … Continue reading One Nation Looms: Federal Coalition Must Scrap the RET to Avoid Drifting to Defeat
Chaotic Wind Power Shunned: Coalition to Use ‘Green’ Slush Fund to Build Coal-Fired Power Plants
*** The political climate surrounding energy policy in Australia is febrile. However, nervous and feverish excitement is hardly conducive to sensible solutions. Bill Shorten’s Labor opposition is turning itself inside out as it struggles to come to grips with the political punishment that will be meted out by voters who have already worked out that … Continue reading Chaotic Wind Power Shunned: Coalition to Use ‘Green’ Slush Fund to Build Coal-Fired Power Plants
Wind Power Disaster Means South Australian Labor Government ‘Gone with the Wind’
*** While the power pricing and supply calamity that is South Australia is down to the subsidies awarded to wind power under the Federal government's Large-Scale RET, the state Labor government has done plenty to create the unfolding disaster and nothing to mitigate it. It's vapid Premier, Jay Weatherill must know that, as a wind … Continue reading Wind Power Disaster Means South Australian Labor Government ‘Gone with the Wind’
Australia’s Renewable Policy Doomed as Labor Party Scuttles Away from Suicidal 50% RET
*** Former union bully boy and billionaire wannabe, Labor opposition leader, Bill Shorten is all over the shop on energy policy. Terrified witless of the lunatic left and the Greens who, like the tail that wags the dog, have driven the Australian Labor Party into a suicidal push for a 50% RET, Shorten has taken … Continue reading Australia’s Renewable Policy Doomed as Labor Party Scuttles Away from Suicidal 50% RET
Political ‘System Black’: South Australia’s Wind Power Debacle Turns Renewable Policy Toxic
*** Politics is a cruel game, at the best of times. But Australia's renewable energy debacle is testing the wits of even the brightest of our political betters. The political graveyard is littered with those brave and foolhardy enough to ignore the average voting punter; recent interments include Hillary Clinton, buried in a landslide of … Continue reading Political ‘System Black’: South Australia’s Wind Power Debacle Turns Renewable Policy Toxic
Political Storm Erupts: Hostile Germans Turn on Ugly, Costly & Ineffective Wind Power
Held up as the wind cult's poster girl, Germany went hard and fast, spearing tens of thousands of these things all over its, once cherished and pristine, landscape. The cost of its maniacal rush into massively subsidised wind and solar to German businesses and households has been astronomical and, in the mother of all ironies, … Continue reading Political Storm Erupts: Hostile Germans Turn on Ugly, Costly & Ineffective Wind Power
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