As the wind industry faces its inevitable Armageddon, and with their rearguard reduced to a miserable and angry rump, moves by Donald Trump to dismantle the Climate Industrial Complex gather apace. Which brings us to this week’s roundup. The team from Jo Nova highlights the fact that the massive and endless subsidies forked out to … Continue reading Stop These Things’ Weekly Round Up: 13 April 2025
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Stop These Things’ Weekly Round Up: 6 April 2025
With Donald Trump’s tariff-led geopolitical strategy in train, watch countries rapidly ditch their obsession with chaotically intermittent wind and solar. Cheap and reliable energy is, always and everywhere, the key to competing in the global marketplace. That’s precisely why China dominates in manufacturing all of the stuff that the West consumes and uses. And within … Continue reading Stop These Things’ Weekly Round Up: 6 April 2025
Path to Recovery: Scrapping Subsidies to Never-Reliable Wind & Solar Key to Economic Revival
There’s a reason that South Australians suffer the world’s highest retail power prices; and that’s because it’s the world’s wind and solar capital. It is an economic backwater, with Australia’s highest rate of unemployment, which can only worsen after the Draconian COVID-19 lockdowns imposed on commercial and social life destroyed thousands of jobs, many of … Continue reading Path to Recovery: Scrapping Subsidies to Never-Reliable Wind & Solar Key to Economic Revival
Sudden Wind Change: Wind Industry Wilts as Ontario Scraps ‘Green’ Energy Act
Ontario’s Kathleen Wynne simultaneously destroyed her political fortunes, as she set about destroying one of Canada’s most productive provinces. A raft of policies drawn up by Wynne and her fellow eco-zealots, all safely ensconced in Toronto, resulted in thousands of these things being speared right across Ontario. Furious communities and rocketing power prices are the … Continue reading Sudden Wind Change: Wind Industry Wilts as Ontario Scraps ‘Green’ Energy Act
Renewable Energy Zealots Furious: Australia’s New PM Determined to Slash Wind & Solar Subsidies and Exit Paris Climate ‘Deal’
Ever rocketing power prices were what scuttled Australia’s suicidal renewable energy policies. The National Energy Guarantee was an effort to expand (exponentially) and extend (indefinitely) Australia’s already crippling Large-Scale Renewable Energy Target. A mixture of hubris and overreach by those championing the NEG - which included the ex-PM (we seem to recall his name was … Continue reading Renewable Energy Zealots Furious: Australia’s New PM Determined to Slash Wind & Solar Subsidies and Exit Paris Climate ‘Deal’
Renewables Reset: Rocketing Power Prices Mean New PM Bound to Slash Wind & Solar Subsidies
Australia’s renewable energy policy has just imploded and, with it, the set-in-stone ‘certainty’ craved by renewable energy rent seekers. Never again will wind and solar power outfits be able to rely on the bipartisan support for subsidies to renewables, critical to their ‘business’ models. Generating power at the chaotic whims of nature’s wonder fuels means … Continue reading Renewables Reset: Rocketing Power Prices Mean New PM Bound to Slash Wind & Solar Subsidies
Newsflash: Power Costs More With Intermittent Wind & Solar – A Whole Lot More
Australia’s renewable energy policy is doomed: and it was rocketing power prices that killed it. No State went harder or faster than South Australia, when it came to the rollout of solar panels and giant windmills. Notorious for mass load shedding events and a statewide blackout, that left parts of the economic backwater without power … Continue reading Newsflash: Power Costs More With Intermittent Wind & Solar – A Whole Lot More
Australia’s Renewable Energy Policy Implodes: With Power Prices Rocketing MPs Demand Immediate End to Wind & Solar Subsidies
In less than a week, RE zealots went from full-scale offensive to wholesale retreat, with disaster now imminent for wind and solar outfits. Instead of getting their National Energy Guarantee up and running - a policy which would have effectively doubled the amount of subsidised and intermittent wind and solar capacity in Australia - Audrey … Continue reading Australia’s Renewable Energy Policy Implodes: With Power Prices Rocketing MPs Demand Immediate End to Wind & Solar Subsidies
Downfall: Malcolm Turnbull Doomed as Rebel MP’s Wreck PM’s Big Push for More Subsidised Wind & Solar
Australia’s RE obsessed PM, Malcolm Turnbull has committed political Hara-Kiri with his brazen push to double subsidies to wind and solar. The National Energy Guarantee is being pitched as a policy that will slash Australian retail power bills, notwithstanding that it effectively increases the current annual Renewable Energy Target (currently 33,000 GWh for wind … Continue reading Downfall: Malcolm Turnbull Doomed as Rebel MP’s Wreck PM’s Big Push for More Subsidised Wind & Solar
Crunch Time: Australia’s Self-Inflicted Energy Crisis Down to Wind & Solar Obsession
At the heart of Australia’s self-inflicted power pricing and supply calamity is an obsession with intermittent and unreliable wind and solar. Mandated and massive subsidies - that those attempting to deliver electricity using nature’s wonder fuels have been wallowing in since the Australian Labor Party seriously upped the RE ante in 2010 - resulted in a … Continue reading Crunch Time: Australia’s Self-Inflicted Energy Crisis Down to Wind & Solar Obsession