Tag: Pacific Hydro

Pac Hydro Write-Down Proves Wind Farms Don’t Run on Wind, they Run on Subsidies

**** Remember all that huff and puff put out over the last few months by the Clean Energy Council and near-bankrupt wind power outfit, Infigen about wind power becoming so cheap as to be competitive with coal and gas fired generators? You know, the fantastic tales about wind power causing a reduction in Australian retail … Continue reading Pac Hydro Write-Down Proves Wind Farms Don’t Run on Wind, they Run on Subsidies

Pac Hydro’s Wind Farm: How the Mandatory RET Destroyed Cape Bridgewater

As STT followers are well aware, the mandatory Renewable Energy Target and the Renewable Energy Certificates issued to wind power generators under it amount to a Federal Tax on all Australian power consumers. The value of the REC Tax is then transferred to wind power outfits – like Union Super Fund backed, Pacific Hydro – … Continue reading Pac Hydro’s Wind Farm: How the Mandatory RET Destroyed Cape Bridgewater

Wind Industry’s “Death By A Thousand Cuts”: RET Review Panel – current RET should go

**** The RET Review Panel has delivered the final blow for the Australian wind industry, with recommendations that include killing the RET rort from here on: the Panel recommending that the current 41,000 GWh target be abolished - and that the door be firmly shut on any new wind farm investments. The Panel’s report is … Continue reading Wind Industry’s “Death By A Thousand Cuts”: RET Review Panel – current RET should go

Pac Hydro’s Cape Bridgewater Wind Farm Victims Vindicated

Headache for residents after monitoring reveals bad vibes The Australian Graham Lloyd 2 August 2014 FOR the past two months, Melissa Ware’s 150-year-old stone-foundation house in the shadow of the Cape Bridgewater wind farm in Victoria has been wired to monitor sounds that cannot be heard easily by the human ear. Ware, who is partially … Continue reading Pac Hydro’s Cape Bridgewater Wind Farm Victims Vindicated

Federal Government’s Mandatory RET pays Pac Hydro to Steal Sonia Trist’s Home

**** As STT followers are well aware, the mandatory Renewable Energy Target and the Renewable Energy Certificates issued to wind power generators under it amount to a Federal Tax on all Australian power consumers. The value of the REC Tax is then transferred to wind power outfits - like Union Super Fund backed, Pacific Hydro … Continue reading Federal Government’s Mandatory RET pays Pac Hydro to Steal Sonia Trist’s Home

Wind Power Investors: Get Out While You Can

**** For anyone still foolish enough to have their hard earned cash invested in wind power companies the warnings to grab your money and run couldn’t be louder or clearer. The members of the RET review panel have signalled their intention to take an axe to the RET: spelling out the fact that the review … Continue reading Wind Power Investors: Get Out While You Can

Melissa Ware: a heartfelt “thank you” to Chris Back, Alan Jones & Graham Richardson

**** A few posts back we covered the fantastic Chris Back interview on Sky News with Alan Jones and Graham Richardson - where the Senator from Western Australia gave the wind industry and it's parasites a terrific serve (see our post here). One of Pac Hydro's long-suffering neighbours at Cape Bridgewater - Melissa Ware - … Continue reading Melissa Ware: a heartfelt “thank you” to Chris Back, Alan Jones & Graham Richardson

Pac Hydro promises but fails to fix its screeching fans at Cape Bridgewater

Pacific Hydro – run by Union Heavy, Garry Weaven and funded by Union Super money handled by Members Equity Bank, controlled by his best mate Greg Combet – operates a non-compliant wind farm at Cape Bridgewater in Victoria – and has done since 2008. The Victorian government is well aware that Pac Hydro does not … Continue reading Pac Hydro promises but fails to fix its screeching fans at Cape Bridgewater

Melissa Ware: “Please Tony, Save Our Souls”

**** Melissa Ware is one of Pac Hydro’s numerous tragic victims at Cape Bridgewater, Victoria - where the Labor/Union backed outfit - run by former union heavy Gary Weaven - runs another non-compliant wind farm that’s been driving the neighbours to hell and back for over five years now (see our post here). Here is … Continue reading Melissa Ware: “Please Tony, Save Our Souls”

The Battle for the Western Districts of Victoria is on

The Western Districts of Victoria is among the most productive and fertile grazing and agricultural territory in Australia.  In a good year - and there are plenty of those - it rains for nine months of the year and drips off the trees for the rest.  Set on deep, volcanic soils, the country around Port … Continue reading The Battle for the Western Districts of Victoria is on