Flat White Getty Images Flat White 16 June 2025 10:01 AM Senator Matt Canavan announced over the weekend: This afternoon [June 14] the NSW Nationals Party conference voted to abandon the commitment to Net Zero and to advocate for the withdrawal from the Paris Agreement. People are sick and tired of Australians having to payContinue reading “Nationals lead fight against Net Zero”
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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”
Environmentalism as Anti-Humanism
Ethan Redekop Quadrant Online January 27, 2025 At present, there is fierce debate in Canadian politics surrounding Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s implementation of a carbon tax. Federal opposition leader Pierre Poilievre has made the repeal of Trudeau’s carbon tax the crux of his campaign to become prime minister, citing the rising cost of living andContinue reading “Environmentalism as Anti-Humanism”
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”
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”
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”
8000 Qld homes sweat as cooling cut off
John Rolfe The Courier Mail December 30, 2024 More than 8000 Queensland households had the cooling function on their airconditioner turned off remotely by Energex on a sweltering Sunday earlier this month – the fifth Big Brother-style intervention of the year. In total, aircons have been automatically throttled back about 210,000 times in the SunshineContinue reading “8000 Qld homes sweat as cooling cut off”
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”
Trump’s fossil future heralds a global reset
Gerard Baker The Australian November 22, 2024 As the eminences of the global climate change crowd gathered in Baku, Azerbaijan this week for the Cop29 summit, a small handful of less familiar figures were making the pilgrimage to Mar-a-Lago, Palm Beach, Florida, on the other side of the world. With due deference to the self-anointedContinue reading “Trump’s fossil future heralds a global reset”
‘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”
Why it’s time to cut our losses on green hydrogen fantasy
Why it’s time to cut our losses on green hydrogen fantasyJudith Sloan The Australian October 7, 2024It was meant to be the last piece of the net-zero jigsaw – green hydrogen. The renewable energy plus batteries pieces were (sort of) in place. Green hydrogen, using electrolysis powered by renewable energy, would be the means wherebyContinue reading “Why it’s time to cut our losses on green hydrogen fantasy”
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