**** Infigen is an all-wind-power-outfit that used to be called Babcock and Brown – which collapsed spectacularly in 2009 – taking $10 billion of investors’ and creditors’ money with it on the way out (see this story). The way things are headed - get set for a replay. Infigen is bleeding cash (it backed up … Continue reading Infigen Signals Its Own Demise – as the RET Review Panel Gets to Work
Tag: power prices
Wind Power: Buying a Dog, but getting Sold a Pup
How many times have we believed the salesman’s pitch - got home and unwrapped our purchase - only to be disappointed when we discover that we’d spent our hard earned cash on a complete lemon? Ending up with a frisky and inexperienced pup, when we’ve shelled out for a well-trained dog is always disappointing. Wind … Continue reading Wind Power: Buying a Dog, but getting Sold a Pup
Dick Warburton: is the RET worth the Pain inflicted on Families & Business?
As STT followers know, the RET Review Panel is headed up by Dick Warburton - a man who’s acutely aware of the pain being inflicted on Australian families and business by the mandatory Renewable Energy Target. Since Dick was appointed to conduct the first thorough cost/benefit analysis of the mandatory RET ever undertaken, the wind … Continue reading Dick Warburton: is the RET worth the Pain inflicted on Families & Business?
Slash Wind Power Subsidies & Bring Power Prices Back to Earth
With Australia’s wind industry gasping its last breath, their hired spruikers at the Clean Energy Council have taken to peddling the incredible tale that wind power has led to a REDUCTION in our power bills. Trouble is that wind power generation (the product of the mandatory RET - which has been in operation since 2001) … Continue reading Slash Wind Power Subsidies & Bring Power Prices Back to Earth
Time to let the RET Review Panel Know What You Think
As STT’s loyal followers know, Australia is all set to decouple itself from the international economic suicide pact entered when gullible and unwitting governments all over the world signed up to ludicrously expensive and utterly pointless renewables policies. The Coalition are itching to scrap the Renewable Energy Target - and the RET Review Panel appear … Continue reading Time to let the RET Review Panel Know What You Think
Wind Power in Britain: it’s Robin Hood in Reverse
A while back, there was a plucky young English lad, called Robin Hood, who was pretty handy with both long-bow and sword; and so comfortable with expressing his “feminine side” that he wasn’t afraid to be seen in figure hugging green tights. Hood hung out with his band of Merry Men in Sherwood Forest, dodging … Continue reading Wind Power in Britain: it’s Robin Hood in Reverse
Joe Hockey keen to scrap Infigen’s “utterly offensive” Lake George Wind Farm
**** In our last post we covered the Alan Jone’s interview with Federal Treasurer Joe Hockey that’s sent the wind industry and its parasites into a tailspin. Apart from the fact that Joe detests the very sight of these things, the Treasurer made it abundantly clear that when the Coalition talks about ending the “age … Continue reading Joe Hockey keen to scrap Infigen’s “utterly offensive” Lake George Wind Farm
Australia’s Treasurer, Joe Hockey says: Stop These Things!
**** Last Friday, the Federal Treasurer, Joe Hockey (aka Shrek) met with Alan Jones on his Breakfast radio show on 2GB. And what he had to say about giant fans has sent the wind industry and its parasites into fits of apoplexy. Predictably, the usual suspects - eco-fascist bloggers, the ABC and Fairfax Press - … Continue reading Australia’s Treasurer, Joe Hockey says: Stop These Things!
Martians in charge of UK Energy Policy
With spiralling power costs crippling business and punishing families due to its ludicrous renewables policy, the Brits might fairly ask: “have our leaders been taken over by Martians?” Well, frankly, yes. The Tories have abdicated their responsibility for energy policy to the hard-green-left of the Liberal-Democrats - who can’t transfer £billions in taxpayer and power consumer … Continue reading Martians in charge of UK Energy Policy
Bjørn Lomborg: Cost of Renewables Hit Poorest the Hardest
Bjørn Lomborg has become one of the most high profile critics of insanely expensive and utterly pointless renewable energy policies across the globe (see our posts here and here). Bjørn's back - and this time he adds the impact that our ludicrous Renewable Energy Target has had - and will have - on power prices and … Continue reading Bjørn Lomborg: Cost of Renewables Hit Poorest the Hardest
STOP THESE THINGS 