Category Archives: Energy

Like power stations, climate cultist Bowen should be decommissioned

Date: November 30, 2023Author: Editor, cairnsnews 2 Comments Federal Climate Change Minister Chris Bowen has warned runaway global heating could lead to increased national security risks. In his annual climate change statement to federal parliament today, Mr Bowen said extreme weather events caused by climate change “place increased strain on Australia’s energy networks and thisContinue reading “Like power stations, climate cultist Bowen should be decommissioned”

‘Back To The Dark Ages’: Tucker Carlson Details Europe’s Self-Induced Energy Crisis

By  Ben Zeisloft • Aug 31, 2022   DailyWire.com There is a video on TikTok if you want to watch it Fox News anchor Tucker Carlson on Monday evening highlighted the energy crisis faced by Europe ahead of the winter months. Energy prices in many developed countries — particularly nations in western Europe heavily dependent uponContinue reading “‘Back To The Dark Ages’: Tucker Carlson Details Europe’s Self-Induced Energy Crisis”

Why Dutton needs coal not renewables or nuclear

Alan Moran Flat White Getty Images Alan Moran 8 July 2023 4:45 AM Yesterday, Opposition leader Peter Dutton called for Australia to embrace nuclear power to secure a clean, cost-effective, consistent electricity supply.  Dutton is right to be concerned that the government’s policy of replacing coal-fired plants with renewables will end in a disastrous shortageContinue reading “Why Dutton needs coal not renewables or nuclear”

The $10 billion cabal of renewable subsidies killing coal

Alan Moran Flat White Getty Images Alan Moran 24 July 2023 4:30 AM At this time, the attack on fossil fuels, particularly coal, is at a crescendo. In North America with the dishonestly named Inflation Reduction Act and the European Union with its Green Deal, key government institutions are doubling their efforts to subsidise renewableContinue reading “The $10 billion cabal of renewable subsidies killing coal”

Chasing idiocy: how subsidies power our energy price hikes

Alan Moran Flat White Pexels Alan Moran 24 October 2023 4:30 AM If we looked at the picture for Australia in the mid-90s, the electricity industry was massively overstaffed and the gas industry was dissipating the wealth that Exxon had discovered in Bass Strait. In the case of electricity, Victoria led the way, and oneContinue reading “Chasing idiocy: how subsidies power our energy price hikes”

iPhone’s ‘Clean Energy Charging’: the beginning of dystopia

Flat White Getty Images Flat White 28 February 2023 5:00 AM iPhone users raged on social media after they discovered why their devices have been a bit sluggish on the charging front… ‘Clean Energy Charging’ is a new feature introduced to iOS version 16.1 by Apple to ‘reduce the carbon footprint’ of their iPhone. Like allContinue reading “iPhone’s ‘Clean Energy Charging’: the beginning of dystopia”

‘We’ve cut carbon emissions by decimating working-class communities’: the leader of the GMB union on the folly of net zero

The GMB leader demanding a rethink on Labour’s energy policy Kate Andrews Features Illustration: Sam Falconer Kate Andrews 16 September 2023 9:00 AM Last week there should have been a great victory for the British turbine industry. Auctions were held for offshore wind power, asking companies to bid for the right to supply electricity atContinue reading “‘We’ve cut carbon emissions by decimating working-class communities’: the leader of the GMB union on the folly of net zero”

End the Net Zero nightmare

Rafe Champion Getty Images Rafe Champion 6 September 2023 1:33 PM Matthew Warren knows as much about the energy industry as anyone and his book Blackout (2019) is a very good overview of the system. In the Financial Review on the weekend, he called for a contest of ideas and not a rigid central plan because theContinue reading “End the Net Zero nightmare”

End the Net Zero nightmare

  · Rafe Champion The Spectator Australia 6 September 2023 Matthew Warren knows as much about the energy industry as anyone and his book Blackout (2019) is a very good overview of the system. In the Financial Review on the weekend, he called for a contest of ideas and not a rigid central plan becauseContinue reading “End the Net Zero nightmare”

Not in my backyard! No one wants to look at offshore wind turbines

Flat White Getty Images lat White is written and edited by Alexandra Marshall. 28 August 2023 3:46 AM When wind farms were nothing more than an apocalypse-mongering salvation shouted from the lips of a distraught truanting European teenager, plenty of adults were swept up in the hyperbole. They were drawn in by the tears andContinue reading “Not in my backyard! No one wants to look at offshore wind turbines”

Spinning the myth of Global Warming for corporate gain

Alan Moran Flat White Getty Images Alan Moran 25 August 2023 4:00 AM Although in 2011, the Commonwealth Budget papers compiled all the measures that were being implemented to foster renewable energy, that assembly ceased, presumably, because it was recognised as being antipathetic to the notion that wind and solar were cheaper than the fossilContinue reading “Spinning the myth of Global Warming for corporate gain”

Who’s the Coalkeeper now?

The renewables disaster rolls on… Rebecca Weisser Features Australia Getty Images Rebecca Weisser 26 August 2023 9:00 AM ‘Victoria joins NSW in saying no to “Coalkeeper,” ran the headline in Renew Economy in September 2021. ‘Coalkeeper’ was the disparaging name that Big Renewables and their political champions gave to a proposal to pay fossil fuelContinue reading “Who’s the Coalkeeper now?”

Australia’s ideologically-driven energy crisis

Michael de Percy Michael de Percy 23 August 2023 4:00 AM Labor’s energy policy won’t reduce our energy bills by $275 in 2025. When questioned about this promise in 2021, Prime Minister Albanese replied, ‘I don’t think, I know. I know because we have done the modelling.’ The ABC’s ‘promise check’ tells us this electionContinue reading “Australia’s ideologically-driven energy crisis”

Victoria to pay AGL to keep Loy Yang open

Colin Packham The Australian August 21, 2023 Victoria will pay AGL Energy to keep the state’s largest electricity generator open until 2035 if Australia has not yet developed enough renewables, but the power station is enduring financial losses. Victoria has legislated Australia’s most aggressive energy transition policy that sees the state commit to cutting emissionsContinue reading “Victoria to pay AGL to keep Loy Yang open”

Of droughts and fires and floods

Vic Jurskis Flat White Vic Jurskis 24 March 2021 7:14 PM We all know Dorothea Mackellar’s famous words. More recently, Tim Flannery has told us our dams would never fill again and former fire chief turned Climate Council member Greg Mullins warned that we’ll be incinerated by holocausts as a consequence of dangerous climate changeContinue reading “Of droughts and fires and floods”

Relinquishing Australia’s energy security

Lachlan Clark Flat White Getty Images Lachlan Clark 12 August 2023 4:00 AM The desire to achieve Net Zero emissions by 2050 has become the all-encompassing, quasi-religious quest for countless governments, NGOs, and activists. However, the consequences of the transition from affordable and reliable energy sources, such as coal and gas, to so-called green, intermittent,Continue reading “Relinquishing Australia’s energy security”

Smell of gas blowing in the wind Even the luvvies say NSW wind farms don’t add up Rebecca Weisser Features Australia Getty Images Rebecca Weisser 5 August 2023 9:00 AM How long does it take for a wind farm to become carbon neutral in some of the best wind conditions in Queensland? If you guessedContinue reading