Australia’s Renewable Energy Target: Pure Political Poison for PM, Malcolm Turnbull

Not for the first time and not for the last time, Australia’s PM, Malcolm Turnbull is facing a nemesis of his own creation. The first time round, as Liberal opposition leader, Turnbull’s innate desire to pander to inner-city lefties had him snuggle up to Labor (the party he was naturally designed to lead) and advocate … Continue reading Australia’s Renewable Energy Target: Pure Political Poison for PM, Malcolm Turnbull

Renewables Disaster Deepens: Power Costs to Australian Businesses Triple

  It’s almost as if Australia’s rocketing power prices, unstable grid, load-shedding and blackouts were an unexpected surprise, something that must’ve been introduced by intergalactic forces. Here’s an extract from a Press Release STT put out back before the Wind Power Fraud Rally in Canberra in June 2013: PRESS RELEASE: 7 MAY 2013 Wind Power … Continue reading Renewables Disaster Deepens: Power Costs to Australian Businesses Triple

Renewables Disaster Sees Australian Power Prices Jump Another 20% – With Worse to Come

Life coaches and self-help manuals talk about dreaming the life and living the dream. In Australia, as elsewhere, wind and solar power were touted as promising not only an end to the pesky habit of the Earth's climate to change (a selfish obsession that our planet has been hard at for 4.5 billion years), but … Continue reading Renewables Disaster Sees Australian Power Prices Jump Another 20% – With Worse to Come

Australia’s Runaway Renewable Energy Crisis: the Product of Government, Not Market Failure

*** Governments' renewable energy push to blame for crisis The Australian Financial Review Ben Potter 7 April 2017 The energy sector is in disarray because of government failure, not market failure, former Productivity Commission chairman Gary Banks says. He told Infrastructure Partnerships Australia the spectacle of South Australian Premier Jay Weatherill blaming the private sector … Continue reading Australia’s Runaway Renewable Energy Crisis: the Product of Government, Not Market Failure

Australia’s PM Fiddles While Rome Burns: Keeping Federal RET a Recipe for a National Energy Disaster

*** ‘inertia’: noun a tendency to do nothing or to remain unchanged; “the bureaucratic inertia of the various tiers of government” synonyms: inactivity, inaction, inactiveness, inertness, passivity, apathy, accidie, malaise, stagnation, dullness, enervation, sluggishness, lethargy, languor, languidness, listlessness, torpor, torpidity, idleness, indolence, laziness, sloth, slothfulness. If STT was called upon to provide a single word … Continue reading Australia’s PM Fiddles While Rome Burns: Keeping Federal RET a Recipe for a National Energy Disaster

Aboriginal Leader Warren Mundine Tells Australians to Grow Up and Go Nuclear

*** STT tends to leave the debate about global warming or ‘climate change’ to others. However, STT has always thought that if man-made CO2 emissions really were destroying the planet, then sensible governments would have moved to build nuclear power plants from the moment the Chicken Littles started wailing about the heavens collapsing. The French generate … Continue reading Aboriginal Leader Warren Mundine Tells Australians to Grow Up and Go Nuclear

‘System Black’: South Australia’s Wind Power Experiment a Costly, Abject Failure

*** No other two word combination strikes more fear into the hearts of the wind industry and its political backers than 'South Australia'. Rocketing power prices, routine load shedding and mass blackouts are the inevitable results of South Australia's wind power experiment. Tom Quirk trained as a nuclear physicist at the University of Melbourne. He … Continue reading ‘System Black’: South Australia’s Wind Power Experiment a Costly, Abject Failure

Australia’s Energy Debacle: Politicians Fiddle While Rome Burns

*** Alan Moran needs no intro to STT followers. Here he gives the morally bankrupt idiots that pretend to govern us a well-deserved spray, over the energy debacle that has turned Australia - once an energy power house - into an international joke. Trump and Australian political dithering over energy costs Catallaxy Files Alan Moran … Continue reading Australia’s Energy Debacle: Politicians Fiddle While Rome Burns

It’s Time for Frydenberg & Turnbull to Come Clean on the Cost of Subsidised Wind Power

*** STT has a hard time working out whether Federal Energy & Environment Minister, Josh Frydenberg is simply thick, obtuse or knee-deep in the greatest government sanctioned rort of all time? Faced with a disintegrating electricity grid, skyrocketing power prices and a renewable energy policy on the brink of collapse, Frydenberg is playing political games, … Continue reading It’s Time for Frydenberg & Turnbull to Come Clean on the Cost of Subsidised Wind Power

South Australia’s September Wind Power Blackout Cost Businesses & Households $367 Million

When, on 28 September this year, a run-of-the-mill spring storm brought buffeting winds to South Australia, wind speeds exceeded 25m/s (90km/h), the bulk of its 18 wind farms saw their turbines shutdown automatically to protect themselves from catastrophic self-destruction. Metropolitan Adelaide was without power for hours, regional centres without power for days and mines in … Continue reading South Australia’s September Wind Power Blackout Cost Businesses & Households $367 Million