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Senator David Leyonhjelm: “Wake Up Clive!” – It’s Time to Kill the RET & Save...
STT hears that Tony Abbott is hard at work on his mission to kill off the mandatory RET – with the aim of bringing an end to the most expensive and pointless policy of all time. One of the cross-bench...
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Wind Industry’s “Death By A Thousand Cuts”: RET Review Panel – current RET...
The RET Review Panel has delivered the final blow for the Australian wind industry, with recommendations that include killing the RET rort from here on: the Panel recommending that the current 41,000...
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Wind Power: The Parasitic Power Producer
Promoting Parasitic Power Producers carbon-sense.com Viv Forbes 17 July 2014 Wind and solar are parasitic power producers, unable to survive in a modern electricity grid without the back-up of...
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Why Intermittent Wind Power Increases CO2 Emissions in the Electricity Sector
The central, endlessly repeated lie (upon which the great wind power fraud rests) is that increasing wind power generation results in decreases in CO2 emissions. In Australia, the central object of the...
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Senator Chris Back: Wind Industry must prove its CO2 abatement claims
In our last post we tipped a bucket on the central, endlessly repeated lie trotted out by the wind industry and its parasites, that Australia’s great wind rush has resulted in substantial reductions of...
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Politicians & Business Finally Waking Up to the Massive Costs of the LRET
In this post we highlighted the political distinction between the small scale renewable energy scheme (SRES) – which doles out subsidies for rooftop solar – and the Large-Scale RET (LRET) – upon which...
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Terry McCrann: The Mandatory RET – It’s Only a RORT When You’re Not In On It
Follow the money trail, and RET spells rort not power Herald Sun Terry McCrann 8 September 2014 TWO eternal pieces of advice emerged from the Watergate saga that kneecapped Richard Nixon’s presidency...
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Terry McCrann: The Answer to Our Energy Future Ain’t Wind Power
Answer ain’t blowing in the wind Terry McCrann The Australian 13 September 2014 IT’S doubtful that those who have attacked Dick Warburton’s review of the Renewable Energy Target have actually read even...
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Labor Out to Kill Australia’s Manufacturers & Mineral Processors
Back in December last year 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...
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Bjørn Lomborg: Wind Power – The Rich Man’s Curse on the Poor
When it comes to assessing the costs, risks and benefits of environmental policy Bjørn Lomborg has always tried to provide balanced, detailed analysis supported by facts and evidence. The economic...
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Greg Hunt (“Dumb”) & Ian Macfarlane (“Dumber”) Out to Send ALL Australians...
Ian “Macca” Macfarlane and his youthful ward, Greg Hunt are the flies in the Coalition’s political ointment, when it comes to engineering anything like a sensible policy on energy. Both Macfarlane’s...
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LRET “Stealth Tax” to Cost Australian Power Punters $30 BILLION
As STT has pointed out – just once or twice – the Large-Scale Renewable Energy Target is simply unsustainable: any policy which is unsustainable will eventually fail under its own unfathomable weight;...
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Victoria’s Wind Rush sees 34,000 Households Chopped from the Power Grid
It took a while for Victoria to catch up with Australia’s wind power capital, South Australia when it comes to the roll-out of giant fans. Now, just like SA – the cost of doing so is hitting home – or...
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