Australia's enviable prosperity isn't due to sunshine and breezes, it's down to iron ore, coal and a bevy of other minerals including copper and uranium of the kind being gouged out of the ground by BHP Billiton at Roxby Downs in South Australia's North (see above). How long Australia maintains its wealth is down to … Continue reading Australia’s Renewable Policy Destroying Jobs: Miners Facing Power Price & Supply Crisis
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Energy Economics Mythbusters: Claims Renewables Create Real & Lasting Jobs Just Fake News
One “justification” put up by the wind industry and its parasites for the social and economic chaos caused by spiralling power costs and - in places like notionally wind 'powered' South Australia - load shedding and blackouts (caused by daily wind power output collapses) is the claim that investment in wind power would create a … Continue reading Energy Economics Mythbusters: Claims Renewables Create Real & Lasting Jobs Just Fake News
Australia’s Renewable Target Kills 2,000 Victorian Jobs at Hazelwood & Portland
*** To call what Australian politicians refer to as energy “policy” is to flatter it as involving some kind of deliberate design. As things have panned out in South Australia, and are fast panning out in neighbouring Victoria, there is only one fair description: “total chaos”. South Australia lost 784MW of reliable, affordable base-load power … Continue reading Australia’s Renewable Target Kills 2,000 Victorian Jobs at Hazelwood & Portland