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Former PM Tony Abbott Slams Insane Cost of Unreliable Wind & Solar as Economic Suicide

October 15, 2017 by stopthesethings 12 Comments

Here’s the speech that sent wind and sun worshippers into melt-down. Address to the Global Warming Policy Foundation, Westminster London Hon. Tony Abbot MP 10 October 2017 Thank you for giving me the same platform that you’ve previously given to fellow Australians John Howard and George Pell. I will strive to be worthy of […]

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Australia’s Suicidal RET: Eastern States Soon to Follow South Australia Over its Wind Power Cliff

April 9, 2017 by stopthesethings 6 Comments

Maurice Newman was the former head of Deutsche Bank, the ABC and ASX so you’d be forgiven for thinking that he might know a thing or two about economics and business. Maurice doesn’t mince his words about these things: calling wind power “a crime against the people” (see our post here). Maurice has also previously […]

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Energy Disaster Spells the End for Australia’s Renewable Energy Target

March 23, 2017 by stopthesethings 3 Comments

It happened in the blink of an eye: Australia went from energy heavyweight to a country in crisis looking for the equivalent of life support. Since STT got going in December 2012, we have drifted from frustration to despair and back waiting and hoping for mainstream journalists to recognise the existential threat posed by Australia’s […]

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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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Senate Recommendations Spell ‘DOOM’ for the Australian Wind Industry

August 1, 2015 by stopthesethings 6 Comments

**** The wind industry in Australia, already belted, battered and bruised, has just been delivered what STT considers the fatal blow. On Friday just gone, the front page of The Australian carried the headline “Call to curb wind subsidies” in an “exclusive” penned by STT Champion, Graham Lloyd – the full report appeared on page […]

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Electricity Bill Shorten Signs Suicide Note marked ‘Labor’ & ‘the Australian Wind Industry’

July 26, 2015 by stopthesethings 10 Comments

**** In a “we can’t believe our luck moment”, Labor’s ‘Electricity’ Bill Shorten came out last week to announce that Australia’s Labor Party is now hell-bent on destroying the Australian economy, with a 50% renewable energy target. Shorten’s lurch to the outer reaches of the intellectual cosmos – to a policy position that only the […]

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Australian Wind Industry’s ‘Armageddon’: PM Chops Public Finance for Wind Power

July 19, 2015 by stopthesethings 9 Comments

**** To call the mood amongst the wind industry, its parasites and spruikers “hysterical” is mastery in understatement. Their future is not just dark and dismal; it’s heading from catastrophic to cataclysmic. On every battlefront the wind industry is taking a pounding. New research confirming adverse health effects caused by incessant low-frequency noise and infrasound […]

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