Wind Power: Germany’s Fatal Attraction

All lies and promises – the wind industry has finally been rumbled in Germany and is about to be shown the door in Australia. Wind weasels and their parasites have been guilty of more than just a little hubris.  Claiming to be able to deliver cheap, reliable sparks was always going to be their undoing. … Continue reading Wind Power: Germany’s Fatal Attraction

Richard Northedge: No – It’s NOT a Dream

Richard Northedge used to be the former Deputy City Editor of The Daily Telegraph and Editor of Sunday Business. Richard is now the editor of the print edition of Director of Finance.  Here he is waking up to the economic nightmare that is the great wind power fraud. The madness of windfarms gets crazier Director … Continue reading Richard Northedge: No – It’s NOT a Dream

Michael Cobb – He Gets It

Every once in a Blue Moon STT gets sent an article where the author actually understands the Australian energy market, the Renewable Energy Target AND the fiasco that is the great Australian wind power fraud. Well, the Moon just turned a delightful shade of Blue. Here's a cracking piece written by Michael Cobb, who - … Continue reading Michael Cobb – He Gets It

Donna Laframboise: “Global Warming” – The Greatest Lie Ever Told: Pt 3

Donna Laframboise is a Canadian feminist, journalist, writer, and photographer – and is the author of “The Delinquent Teenager Who Was Mistaken for the World’s Top Climate Expert” (2011) - a book that has a pretty fair crack at the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.  Donna also runs a site called noconsensus.org - that attacks … Continue reading Donna Laframboise: “Global Warming” – The Greatest Lie Ever Told: Pt 3

Donna Laframboise: “Global Warming” – The Greatest Lie Ever Told: Pt 2

Donna Laframboise is a Canadian feminist, journalist, writer, and photographer – and is the author of “The Delinquent Teenager Who Was Mistaken for the World’s Top Climate Expert” (2011) - a book that has a pretty fair crack at the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.  Donna also runs a site called noconsensus.org - that attacks … Continue reading Donna Laframboise: “Global Warming” – The Greatest Lie Ever Told: Pt 2

When the Wick Ain’t Worth the Candle

**** Giant fans: costly; unsightly; noisy; inefficient; pointless, because they can never reduce CO2 emissions; the cause of millions of bird and bat deaths each year; and built with rare earths, the mining and processing of which is turning China into a toxic wasteland - what’s not to like? Notwithstanding the growing list of dubious … Continue reading When the Wick Ain’t Worth the Candle

Keith De Lacy: “New” Labor – Out to Punish the Poor & Get Rich

*** A few posts back we looked at how South Australia went from economic zero to economic hero during the 1950s and 1960s - with the help of a pragmatic Adelaide Hills farmer, Sir Tom Playford. Tom created a manufacturing and industrial investment paradise - principally by making cheap and reliable power available through the … Continue reading Keith De Lacy: “New” Labor – Out to Punish the Poor & Get Rich

Game On: the Race to Kill the RET

**** With the Head Boy, Tony Abbott recently signalling the demise of the RET (see our post here) Labor apparatchiks have gone into a flat panic. Labor is a party that’s controlled by Australia’s Unions - and fed and fattened on a steady diet of the money controlled by Union backed Superannuation funds. Over the … Continue reading Game On: the Race to Kill the RET

ETSA: Sir Tom Playford’s Ghost

**** Once upon a time, in a land far, far away there was a place called South Australia - and it enjoyed electricity delivered reliably and at retail prices amongst the lowest in the world (no, it wasn’t a dream). The brainchild of agrarian socialist, Liberal Premier, Sir Thomas Playford, the Electricity Trust of South … Continue reading ETSA: Sir Tom Playford’s Ghost

Macca shoulder to shoulder with Tony Abbott as PM signals end for RET

  Last Wednesday, Action Man Abbott fronted the Canberra press gallery and delivered a speech that signals the end of Australia’s insanely expensive (and completely pointless) Renewable Energy Target (RET). Tony outlined the Coalition’s vision for restoring Australia’s beleaguered manufacturing sector, no doubt, in response to General Motor’s recent announcement that it will pull the … Continue reading Macca shoulder to shoulder with Tony Abbott as PM signals end for RET