Tag: Renewable Energy Target

Jennifer Westacott: Time to End Poorly-Designed Energy Policy

Jennifer Westacott is the chief executive of the Business Council of Australia and has extensive policy experience in both the public and private sectors. She has occupied critical leadership positions in the New South Wales and Victorian governments. This weekend she wrote in The Australian about the devastating impact of poorly-designed energy policy on businesses and energy consumers - and the necessity … Continue reading Jennifer Westacott: Time to End Poorly-Designed Energy Policy

Angus Taylor Joins the Wind Farm Rumble to Save Rugby & Rye Park

A little while back, in covering what "community division" caused by wind farms really means, we touched on a developer's "community consultation" that took place at Rye Park (near Goulburn) in NSW (see our post here). The “community consultation” in question was held by Epuron – an outfit hoping to develop what it calls the … Continue reading Angus Taylor Joins the Wind Farm Rumble to Save Rugby & Rye Park

Tony Abbott: RET a Threat to Jobs in All Industries (not just Aluminum Smelters)

**** Over the last week or two the press has been giving a fair bit of coverage to the fact that there are 25 Coalition Members who are trying to find a “Goldilocks solution” to the disaster that is the mandatory Renewable Energy Target. The group - which is being directed by Ian “Macca” Macfarlane … Continue reading Tony Abbott: RET a Threat to Jobs in All Industries (not just Aluminum Smelters)

A “Sweet” Renewable Future for FNQ: or, “Is there Method in Palmer’s Madness”?

**** As STT has already pointed out, retaining the Clean Energy Finance Corporation and the mandatory RET makes no sense for a political party which helped to kill the “carbon” tax (with no ETS to replace it) because of the punishment it caused to businesses and households through spiralling electricity bills. Since big Clive’s announcement, … Continue reading A “Sweet” Renewable Future for FNQ: or, “Is there Method in Palmer’s Madness”?

Wind Industry Doomed as Smokin’ Joe Hockey Shuts Down CEFC Lending for Wind Farms

**** Having killed the “carbon” tax in an eye-blink - a business killing and family punishing $23 a tonne tax on carbon dioxide gas - Clive Palmer vowed to use his ability to block legislation proposed by the Coalition in the Senate to prevent any changes to the mandatory Renewable Energy Target; and the abolition … Continue reading Wind Industry Doomed as Smokin’ Joe Hockey Shuts Down CEFC Lending for Wind Farms

Alan Moran: Wind Power FAILS on all Scores

**** Renewable energy as a means of reducing emissions fails two key tests Herald Sun Alan Moran 26 June 2014 REGULATORY change will always disadvantage some while advantaging others. But the benefits of deregulation far outpace the costs and Australia carries a weighty regulatory burden, one that has deprived us of enjoying the world’s highest … Continue reading Alan Moran: Wind Power FAILS on all Scores

Power Prices“r”UP: Clive Palmer Determined to Destroy Australian Business and Crush Australian Families

**** Australian politics is (sadly) renowned for its “colour” - and there are few more colourful than Queensland’s political “giant”, Clive Palmer. Head of the PUP – or the “Prices“r”UP” Party. Yesterday - in a circus so bizarre that PT Barnum would have been left speechless - Palmer teamed up with none other than Al … Continue reading Power Prices“r”UP: Clive Palmer Determined to Destroy Australian Business and Crush Australian Families

Claims Wind Power now “Competitive” with Conventional Generators About to be Tested

**** In Australia and the US, the wind industry and its parasites are making wild claims about being able to deliver power at prices equal to, or less than, the cost of conventional generation sources (see our post here). Those claims are about to be put to the test. In both Countries, legislators are ready … Continue reading Claims Wind Power now “Competitive” with Conventional Generators About to be Tested

Exposing wind industry “vampires”: Alan Jones and James Delingpole

**** James Delingpole was interviewed by Alan Jones on 2GB  last week about the economic, environmental and social fraud of the wind industry. Alan has a little radio show that more than just a few Australians tune into each morning. Syndicated through over 77 Stations and with close to 2 million listeners Countrywide – AJ … Continue reading Exposing wind industry “vampires”: Alan Jones and James Delingpole

Power Punters Face $billions in “Fines” as Mandatory RET Deemed “Doomed to Fail”

**** In our earlier posts (here and here) we outlined the fact that – under the mandatory Renewable Energy Target - retailers are fined $65 per MWh for every MW they fall below the mandated 41,000 GWh annual target: what’s called the “shortfall charge” - follow the links here and here. With less than 23,000 … Continue reading Power Punters Face $billions in “Fines” as Mandatory RET Deemed “Doomed to Fail”