Senator Ralph Babet Flat White Getty Images Senator Ralph Babet 2 December 2023 10:38 AM Climate Change and Energy Minister Chris Bowen and his entourage have added a few more tonnes of carbon emissions flying to the United Arab Emirates for the United Nations’ annual climate change jamboree but that green hypocrisy should be theContinue reading “COP’ it sweet”
Category Archives: Renewables Absurdity
Coastal wind farms: this Sunday, the people say ‘no’ again
Michael de Percy Flat White Getty Images Michael de Percy 29 October 2023 12:00 AM When the first coastal wind farms were announced by Energy Minister Chris Bowen, I thought I was dreaming. Australia has some of the best beaches in the world. People come to this country to see its unspoilt natural beauty. DespiteContinue reading “Coastal wind farms: this Sunday, the people say ‘no’ again”
Bowen busy destroying the country with renewables in order to save it
Date: November 13, 2023Author: Editor, cairnsnews 1 Comment Revolt by ordinary Australians over massive environmental damage from installing 200 metre high wind generators and high voltage power lines through many farm paddocks and backyards as shown at this South Australian site https://www.skynews.com.au/opinion/andrew-bolt/labor-governments-renewables-crusade-is-doomed-andrew-bolt/news-story/b528262f174c323749f6b41148a74e39 Sky News host Andrew Bolt says the Albanese government’s net zero plans areContinue reading “Bowen busy destroying the country with renewables in order to save it”
Decarbonise the planet, are they mad?
John Gideon Hartnett Flat White Getty Images John Gideon Hartnett 19 September 2023 2:00 AM The lunatic scheme to sequestrate carbon dioxide (CO2) several kilometres underground has been initiated by government programs, including Australia, with taxpayer money. It is called Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS). The purpose is to make sure that carbon dioxide injected intoContinue reading “Decarbonise the planet, are they mad?”
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”
Australia’s biggest solar farm: ‘We are collateral damage in the race to Net Zero’
Flat White Pexels Flat White 7 September 2023 7:00 AM There’s nothing but heartbreak and dismay as another renewable energy project looms over regional Australia. Danish company European Energy has been given approval to build Australia’s largest solar ‘farm’ a mere 70km from the Great Barrier Reef – the same reef that climate scientists weepContinue reading “Australia’s biggest solar farm: ‘We are collateral damage in the race to Net Zero’”
Why won’t Greenpeace admit that wind turbines may be killing whales?
Greenpeace’s strange silence about new dangers to whales Matt Ridley Features [iStock] Matt Ridley 16 September 2023 9:00 AM Who cares about whales? Whales might be dying because of sonar surveying, but Greenpeace simply ignores the science that doesn’t suit it. So far last year, 71 whales have washed up dead on the shores ofContinue reading “Why won’t Greenpeace admit that wind turbines may be killing whales?”
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?”
The James Macpherson Report
All Aboard! Electric buses. What could go wrong? James Macpherson 8 June 2023 The Queensland Government has said that all new buses must be electric from 2025. Great idea. There’s just a couple of things they haven’t thought through …
Labor’s coal-fired green dream
Flat White Michael de Percy Getty Images Michael de Percy 24 May 2023 1:40 PM With cost-of-living pressures really starting to hurt Australians, Labor’s green dream would be a complete nightmare if it wasn’t for coal. When then Treasurer Scott Morrison brought a lump of coal into the House of Representatives, the left-leaning media were quick toContinue reading “Labor’s coal-fired green dream”
Solar: a risky waste of time and money
Flat White John Mole Getty Images John Mole 17 May 2023 5:00 AM In Australia, great reliance is being placed on electricity generation from solar panels, both roof-mounted and solar farms. The aim is to replace generation from coal and gas to reduce carbon dioxide emissions. Researchers recognise that, for this to succeed, the electricityContinue reading “Solar: a risky waste of time and money”
Australia’s ‘green energy’ chimera
Alan Moran and Tom Bostock Flat White Getty Images Alan Moran and Tom Bostock 12 April 2023 7:00 AM The government has asked the Joint Committee on Trade and Investment Growth to inquire into ‘Australia’s transition to a green energy superpower’. It wants ideas on how to accelerate growth in sectors covering renewable energy, batteries,Continue reading “Australia’s ‘green energy’ chimera”
Wave power creates Net Zero corpses in the sea
Flat White Pexels 8 April 2023 4:00 AM Every year, there is a green fad that claims it’s going to ‘save the world’ with some kind of renewable gimmick. In 2023, it’s the doomed money pit of green hydrogen – at the turn of the millennium, it was wave energy. Established in 1997, Oceanlinx focusedContinue reading “Wave power creates Net Zero corpses in the sea”
Solar farms and the trouble with net zero
World Andrew Tettenborn (Credit: Getty images) Andrew Tettenborn 15 February 2023 12:53 AM Say it quietly, especially when there’s a Green listening: but there’s one certainty about Net Zero 2050. It won’t happen. As any honest MP will admit in private, it is stymied not only by the need to keep the lights on followingContinue reading “Solar farms and the trouble with net zero”
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