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Senator Calls Australia’s Renewable Energy Debacle a National Emergency

August 3, 2017 by stopthesethings 2 Comments

Whether it’s the looming threat of mass blackouts and load shedding this coming summer, the 140% increase in the number of homes disconnected from the grid (families unable to pay power bills increasing at 20%, year-on-year) or thousands of pensioners freezing in the dark, Australia’s decade-long dalliance with sunshine and breezes just got serious. Hitherto […]

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One Nation Looms: Federal Coalition Must Scrap the RET to Avoid Drifting to Defeat

February 27, 2017 by stopthesethings 10 Comments

*** 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 […]

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Political ‘System Black’: South Australia’s Wind Power Debacle Turns Renewable Policy Toxic

February 19, 2017 by stopthesethings 3 Comments

*** 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 […]

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Australia’s New Senate Pushes for End to Wind Power Subsidies

September 25, 2016 by stopthesethings 9 Comments

*** The return of a Federal Coalition government has given the wind industry, its parasites and spruikers no respite: the ‘uncertainty’ they dread is still hanging over the terminal Large-Scale RET (the subsidy scheme on which the entire scam depends) like the Sword of Damocles. The LRET is set up as a $3 billion a […]

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