Ian Plimer The Spectator Australia February 8, 2025 There are long-term consequences for rabid misguided environmentalism. Take Europe, where fossil fuels, mining, industry and agriculture have been under relentless attack for decades. Major heavy industry is moving elsewhere, many German cars are now no longer made in Germany, almost all mines have closed and cowsContinue reading “Will we follow Germany’s path to oblivion?”
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Cheap renewables’ lie exposed by UK (and Australia’s) soaring energy costs
Date: February 6, 2025Author: Editor, cairnsnews 18 Comments BJORN Lomborg, one of the leading sceptics of the climate crisis narrative, has described the claim that the so-called green energy transition will make cheap electricity for everyone as a myth and “one of the most dangerous self-delusions of the global elite”. Writing in The Telegraph (UK)Continue reading “Cheap renewables’ lie exposed by UK (and Australia’s) soaring energy costs”
Failing renewables push threatens Boyne Smelter, Yarwun Alumina Refinery and the Queensland Alumina Refinery
Date: February 6, 2025Author: Editor, cairnsnews 8 Comments Many thousands of jobs could be lost in the alumina industry as secure, reliable and affordable power supplies dwindle thanks to useless renewables. Coal-fired power is by far the cheapest and most reliable for industry and the Labor-held industrial stronghold of Gladstone will be first to fold.Continue reading “Failing renewables push threatens Boyne Smelter, Yarwun Alumina Refinery and the Queensland Alumina Refinery”
How our blinkered leaders created a gas import absurdity
Judith Sloan The Australian January 28, 2025 I’m sure I’m not the only one who thinks it’s passing strange – more than passing strange – that Australia is about to become an importer of liquefied natural gas as well as an exporter. Of course, intra-industry trade between countries is quite common but, in the main,Continue reading “How our blinkered leaders created a gas import absurdity”
Stuck on a horse-drawn buggy as world speeds past
Chris Kenny 12:00AMJanuary 18, 2025797 Comments Microsoft has entered into a billion-dollar deal to restart a nuclear reactor at Three Mile Island in Pennsylvania. Picture: AFP For three weeks over Christmas and New Year’s I enjoyed a family holiday in New York City, Washington DC and other parts of the US east coast around NewContinue reading “Stuck on a horse-drawn buggy as world speeds past”
All eyes on Dutton as he takes on ‘the worst PM since Whitlam’
Dennis Shanahan The Australian January 17, 2025 Suddenly, all eyes are on Peter Dutton. Yes, 2025 is an election year with a poll to be held within months and he is the Opposition Leader, but there is more to the strength and tone of the focus than just the usual uptick in interest in theContinue reading “All eyes on Dutton as he takes on ‘the worst PM since Whitlam’”
Greens shaken as Dutton ascends
Rex Widerstrom The Epoch Times – Politicom January 11, 2025 The Greens have insisted they’ll play no part in supporting a Liberal minority government after the next federal election. With recent opinion polls suggesting a possible minority government led by Peter Dutton, Greens Senator Sarah Hanson-Young said her Party would use the Senate to blockContinue reading “Greens shaken as Dutton ascends”
Cold, hard energy lessons for Australia in UK’s grim winter’s tale
Nick Cater The Australian January 13, 2025 Britain’s last coal-fired power station closed at the end of September, throwing households to the mercy of the weather. Turbines and cooling towers at Ratcliffe-on-Soar in Nottinghamshire are about to be demolished to make way for a zero-carbon technology and energy hub. Sadly, Britain’s green activists have noContinue reading “Cold, hard energy lessons for Australia in UK’s grim winter’s tale”
No Labor leader has said how much their plans would actually lower the temperature
Andrew Bolt The Herald Sun January 8, 2025 This federal election looks like becoming the day Australians finally make Labor pay for lying for nearly two decades about the cost of its global warming fantasies. Labor’s lies go back way beyond Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s dishonest press conference on Tuesday, or his broken promise lastContinue reading “No Labor leader has said how much their plans would actually lower the temperature”
Don’t label me more moderate, I back Adam Bandt’s Greens
Bob Brown The Australian January 8, 2025 A series of US presidents, from Lincoln to Roosevelt to Eisenhower, warned about corporations taking power from the people by buying political influence. Corporate power now rules the world, and the Greens, who are not beholden to the organised rich, have become the new focus of rage forContinue reading “Don’t label me more moderate, I back Adam Bandt’s Greens”
Labor and LNP’s extreme power prices have finished off the golden goose for basket case Australia
Date: January 2, 2025Author: Editor, cairnsnews 14 Comments Letter to the Editor There are so very many vectors of Globalist destruction raining down on us, it’s quite the quandary to choose just one focus. Let’s look at Energy Prices. Here’s an article by Eric Zeusse, distantly related to the famous author of the “Cat InContinue reading “Labor and LNP’s extreme power prices have finished off the golden goose for basket case Australia”
Bill Gates Launches Scheme to ‘Save Planet’ from ‘Climate Change’ by Chopping Down Millions of Trees
Frank Bergman Slay News February 13, 2024 Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates has just launched his radical new scheme that promises to “save the planet” from “climate change.” As Slay News reported last year, Gates’s organization, Breakthrough Energy, plowed $6.6 million into the project led by Kodama Systems. The project promised to remove “carbon emissions” fromContinue reading “Bill Gates Launches Scheme to ‘Save Planet’ from ‘Climate Change’ by Chopping Down Millions of Trees”
Pitt quits with big serve at Littleproud over Nats ‘obedience’ to Peter Dutton’s Liberals
Michael McKenna and Geoff Chambers The Australian December 19, 2024 Federal Nationals MP Keith Pitt is quitting politics, warning that the party under leader David Littleproud was becoming irrelevant to its regional-based constituency by maintaining a commitment to net zero emission targets and turning its back on coal-fired power. The former Morrison government resources ministerContinue reading “Pitt quits with big serve at Littleproud over Nats ‘obedience’ to Peter Dutton’s Liberals”
Anti-nuclear Bowen is stuck in a fantasy world of his own
Judith Sloan The Australian December 17, 2024 Picture the scene. It’s a “town and gown” event being held at the University of Chicago. An entrepreneurial businessman approaches a well-known economics professor. He outlines his business proposition, describing the market, the potential demand, the technical requirements, the costs. The professor’s response is simple: if it’s suchContinue reading “Anti-nuclear Bowen is stuck in a fantasy world of his own”
I’m dreaming of a wet Christmas
Rebecca Weisser TThe Spectator Australia14 December 2024 May your days be merry celebrating dud climate change predictions. The snow is snowing, the wind is blowing, admittedly not in Sydney, but Seoul has been blanketed by the heaviest snowfall in five decades, an arctic blast has buried parts of the Great Lakes of North America, andContinue reading “I’m dreaming of a wet Christmas”
Opening the Overton window
Senator Babet The Spectator Australia December 10, 2024 Liberal leader Peter Dutton is winning in the polls as he continues to take his cues from the United Australia Party. Mr Dutton’s latest election promise – to drop the Aboriginal flag from government press conferences – is something I have been doing and advocating for sinceContinue reading “Opening the Overton window”
‘Give coal a chance to rein in energy risks’
Colin Packham and Greg Brown The Australian November 17, 2024 One of the world’s major miners has urged the Albanese government to slow down the transition from coal to renewables and warned Australia risked falling behind other nations in prioritising cheap energy, as Donald Trump put in motion his plan to expand the fossil fuelContinue reading “‘Give coal a chance to rein in energy risks’”
Wind and solar: the energy thieves; Dallas Beaufort · Wind and solar: the energy thieves; The Unpopular Truth about electricity and the future Rafe Champion The Spectator Australia 5 November 2024 Wind and solar power can only survive as parasites on more efficient generators. This slim and elegant book by Lars Schernikau and WilliamContinue reading ” “
Broken Hill’s power outage can’t just be swept aside
Dallas Beaufort rooSdnpest61gh206572u41632gfl7hi78f0ttct9c8gtgl4lm41ctum1h73 · Nick Cater The Australian November 3, 2024 Broken Hill’s two-week experiment in fossil-fuel-free living ended at 8.41pm local time last Thursday when its connection to the east coast grid finally was restored. Transgrid issued a press release thanking the community for its patience and announced that the emergency diesel generators itContinue reading “Broken Hill’s power outage can’t just be swept aside”
QLD – time for good decisions on energy
QLD – time for good decisions on energyBen Beattie The Spectator Australia October 7 October 2024Imagine for a second it is the end of October 2024 and an incoming Queensland LNP Energy Minister is fronting their first press conference. A newly minted minister in charge of Queensland’s energy policy, with limited knowledge of the industry.Continue reading “QLD – time for good decisions on energy”
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