The politics of energy suddenly got real. The fantasy of attempting to run economies on sunshine and breezes has been revealed for just that. Germany's headlong rush into renewables is in tatters, to keep the lights on and business ticking along, it's been forced to build new coal-fired power plants and reinstate previously mothballed plant. … Continue reading Mounting Voter Fury Forces Canadian Renewables Retreat: Subsidies Slashed by $3.8bn
Tag: South Australia power prices
Economic Carnage: SA’s Rocketing Power Prices Crippling Miners, Bakers & Brewers Alike
*** With the exception of the wind industry, South Australia's hapless Labor government will never be accused of economic favouritism: it treats all of its business owners with utter contempt. Rocketing power prices, routine load shedding and blackouts affect miners, bakers and brewers, alike. BHP Billiton warns for crisis in power market The Australian Matt … Continue reading Economic Carnage: SA’s Rocketing Power Prices Crippling Miners, Bakers & Brewers Alike
Renewables Revolt: Australians Refuse to Pay One Cent More for Wind & Solar
Among the mantras that feature in wind industry propaganda is the line about Australians being all in favour of renewable energy. That may well be. However, the wind cult are having a hard time convincing the thousands of South Australians who are often left sitting freezing or boiling in the dark - whenever wind power … Continue reading Renewables Revolt: Australians Refuse to Pay One Cent More for Wind & Solar
Australia’s Power Grid Groans: Wind Power Obsession Threatens Lives & Livelihoods
Vain and dishonest, former Labor PM (and Muppet-in-Chief), Kevin Rudd has a lot to answer for. When his predecessor, Liberal PM, John Howard brought in a renewable energy target in 2001, it was set at a tokenistic 2%: clearly a sop to the wind cult, but for Australian businesses and families, a 'nothing to see … Continue reading Australia’s Power Grid Groans: Wind Power Obsession Threatens Lives & Livelihoods
Chaotic & Costly: Subsidised Wind Power Killing South Australian Business
BHP being battered by SA's wind power obsession. *** As an economy, South Australia is so far under water it's drowning, not waving. Battered by an erratic power supply and prices which have doubled in the last 12 months, South Australia's few remaining industrial businesses are besides themselves. Power policies a threat to nation: business … Continue reading Chaotic & Costly: Subsidised Wind Power Killing South Australian Business
Chaotic Wind Power Shunned: Coalition to Use ‘Green’ Slush Fund to Build Coal-Fired Power Plants
*** The political climate surrounding energy policy in Australia is febrile. However, nervous and feverish excitement is hardly conducive to sensible solutions. Bill Shorten’s Labor opposition is turning itself inside out as it struggles to come to grips with the political punishment that will be meted out by voters who have already worked out that … Continue reading Chaotic Wind Power Shunned: Coalition to Use ‘Green’ Slush Fund to Build Coal-Fired Power Plants
Wind Power Disaster Means South Australian Labor Government ‘Gone with the Wind’
*** While the power pricing and supply calamity that is South Australia is down to the subsidies awarded to wind power under the Federal government's Large-Scale RET, the state Labor government has done plenty to create the unfolding disaster and nothing to mitigate it. It's vapid Premier, Jay Weatherill must know that, as a wind … Continue reading Wind Power Disaster Means South Australian Labor Government ‘Gone with the Wind’
How Subsidised Wind Power Destroyed South Australia’s Once Reliable & Affordable Power Supply
*** Another day, another total wind power output collapse, another statewide blackout. Sure the political spin doctors called it ‘load shedding’, but for the 90,000 families left boiling in the dark, watching their perishables perish the result is precisely the same. The wind cult and its fellow travellers descended into apoplexy, when conventional generators failed … Continue reading How Subsidised Wind Power Destroyed South Australia’s Once Reliable & Affordable Power Supply
To End Australia’s Wind Power ‘Horror Show’, Turnbull Must Scrap the RET Right Now
*** As modern Hollywood 'gangstas' often remonstrate with their fellow 'homies' - when the LAPD appears in numbers, out of nowhere and hot lead starts flying - ‘this shit just got real’. With South Australians baying for political blood - after yet another wind power output collapse knocked out SA’s wholly weather-dependant power supply - … Continue reading To End Australia’s Wind Power ‘Horror Show’, Turnbull Must Scrap the RET Right Now
When Will Josh Frydenberg Stop Lying About the Federal Government’s $40bn RET?
*** Blame shifting and buck-passing have become the national political sport. Lying and obfuscation are, of course, essential prerequisites for those moving up the political ladder. However, the brazenness with which Australia’s Energy and Environment Minister, Josh Frydenberg engages in political ‘craft’ is breathtaking. In a week where South Australia saw 90,000 homes chopped from … Continue reading When Will Josh Frydenberg Stop Lying About the Federal Government’s $40bn RET?