*** South Australia’s wind powered energy calamity hit high farce in the week just gone. Its vapid Premier, Jay Weatherill proved the adage that when you’re in a hole it’s best to stop digging; except that he didn’t - and, instead, determined to dig into taxpayers’ empty pockets. Faced with a looming electoral disaster 12 … Continue reading South Australia’s Risible RET Rescue: Giant $150m Tesla Battery to Power SA for 4 Minutes
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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
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
Power & Politics: Coca Cola Abandons South Australia to Escape Crippling Power Prices & Chaotic Supply
*** In Australia's, so-called 'wind power capital', South Australia, meaningful and lasting employment is a rare and beautiful thing. Last week, Coca-Cola Amatil announced that it is shutting its Adelaide bottling plant, which has delivered the 'real thing' to South Australians since 1939. The loss of around 200 jobs in the economic basket case that … Continue reading Power & Politics: Coca Cola Abandons South Australia to Escape Crippling Power Prices & Chaotic Supply
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
South Australia’s Disastrous Wind Power Experiment: Business Crippled as Power Prices Double
*** Power costs spike short-circuits onshore abalone growth The Australian Michael Owen & Verity Edwards 5 December 2016 The largest onshore abalone growing company in the southern hemisphere, whose power bill is set to rise by $650,000, has joined mining giant BHP Billiton in warning that unreliable and expensive energy costs in the southern states … Continue reading South Australia’s Disastrous Wind Power Experiment: Business Crippled as Power Prices Double
South Australia’s Wind Power Debacle: Destroying an Already Battered Economy
*** Insanity is a term that doesn’t even come close to capturing the mania that has gripped South Australia in the last few months. Its hapless Labor government refused to cut a deal to keep Alinta’s Port Augusta power plants up and running and, since their closure in May this year, South Australia has suffered … Continue reading South Australia’s Wind Power Debacle: Destroying an Already Battered Economy
South Australians Turn Against Wind Power & Plump for an Atomic Future Instead
*** In the 1940s, South Australian Legend, Tom Playford (Premier for 26 years from 1938 to 1965) took a natural gift, in the form of vast untapped reserves of brown coal located at Leigh Creek, directed it through power plants at Port Augusta and, with its cheap and reliable power supply, built a mining, manufacturing … Continue reading South Australians Turn Against Wind Power & Plump for an Atomic Future Instead
How South Australia’s Wind Power Obsession Sent Power Prices Rocketing & Killed Grid Reliability
*** For over 15 years, the Australian wind industry, its parasites and spruikers held up South Australia as the perfect example of what a wind powered future would look like: the economic basket case even earned the mantle of ‘Australia’s wind power capital’. Now that their dreams have become a daily South Australian nightmare, it’s … Continue reading How South Australia’s Wind Power Obsession Sent Power Prices Rocketing & Killed Grid Reliability
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