*** 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
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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’
Former Australian PM Tony Abbott Calls for a Moratorium on Wind Power Subsidies
*** Malcolm Turnbull did him in, on the night of the long knives. However, despite being relegated to the backbench, former PM, Tony Abbott will not be suppressed and he will not be silenced. At a time when the chatter at Australian barbecues is dominated by talk about rocketing power prices and the mass blackouts … Continue reading Former Australian PM Tony Abbott Calls for a Moratorium on Wind Power Subsidies
Wind Industry Armageddon: South Australian Blackouts Lead Australia’s Chief Scientist to Demand Immediate Cap on Wind Power
The fallout from South Australia's power pricing and supply debacle continues. Last year Australia's Chief Scientist, Alan Finkel was given the unenviable task of trying to keep Australia's lights on, despite the havoc caused by a weather dependent system abandoned centuries ago, for pretty obvious reasons. With repeated statewide blackouts and routine load shedding part … Continue reading Wind Industry Armageddon: South Australian Blackouts Lead Australia’s Chief Scientist to Demand Immediate Cap on Wind Power
Criminal Cost of Wind Power Hits Home: Australian Power Bills Soar
Energy bills soar in shift from coal power stations The Australian Kylar Loussikian 4 January 2017 Electricity companies have begun hiking consumer prices around the country, blaming the closure of coal-fired generators and the increased cost of renewable energy for higher-than-predicted increases of more than $130 this year. EnergyAustralia and AGL have increased electricity tariffs … Continue reading Criminal Cost of Wind Power Hits Home: Australian Power Bills Soar
The Nuclear Option: New Research Makes Nuclear Power Even Safer
STT tends to leave the debate about global warming or ‘climate change’ to others. However, STT has always thought that if man-made CO2 emissions really were destroying the planet, then sensible governments would have moved to build nuclear power plants from the moment the Chicken Littles started wailing about the heavens collapsing. The French generate over … Continue reading The Nuclear Option: New Research Makes Nuclear Power Even Safer
The Criminal Cost of the Federal Government’s Obsession with Wind Power
*** Alan Moran needs no intro for STT followers. Here's another cracking piece, courtesy of Catallaxy Files Billions wasted in economy sapping energy regulations Catallaxy Files Alan Moran 16 December 2016 Each year the energy regulator, the Australian Energy Market Commission (AEMC), publishes data on the make-up of electricity costs for households. This breaks down … Continue reading The Criminal Cost of the Federal Government’s Obsession with Wind Power
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