All normal straight Australians should give thanks to the Lord Above that Stuffit Shorten DID NOT GET IN and wreck the joint.



Labor to Throw $200bn to the Wind: Electricity Bill Shorten’s Economic Suicide Pact Unpacked
May 16, 2016 by stopthesethings 7 Comments



In the cutting British satire, Extras, the hapless Andy Millman (Ricky Gervais) is always foiled by his gormless but lovable side-kick, Maggie Jacobs (Ashley Jensen).
Maggie, when she’s not inadvertently ruining Andy’s romantic hopes and/or acting career prospects, poses puzzling rhetoricals such as “would you rather be trampled by elephants or eaten by lions?”

Following Maggie’s lead, STT poses the following:
“would you rather have your economic future destroyed by a $45 billion electricity tax, designed to subsidise the construction of another 6,000 of these things; or a $90 billion electricity tax, designed to subsidise the construction of another 12,000 of them?”

Unfortunately, unlike Maggie’s death by elephant or lion conundrum, with STT’s poser there isn’t any way of avoiding one or the other.  Here, it’s the ‘choice’ that Australians face at the upcoming Federal election: or as Maggie might put it, “would you rather be run over by a steam-roller, once or twice?”

Terry McCrann and Alan Moran detail the ‘Maggie Jacob’s options’ faced by Australian voters, as follows.

Long and Bill Shorten of it: be afraid
The Australian Terry McCrann 7 May 2016
This is the budget which announces that Australia is now ungovernable. That the system — that messy mix of politics and policymaking — is simply incapable of making the necessary changes to put the country on even a sustainable, far less a dynamic, growth path.
That’s in a sense the ‘good,’ or perhaps rather the ‘least worst’, news; for the other major thought from the week is that it might be time to be afraid, to be really afraid.

Opposition leader Bill Shorten gave a very impressive budget reply speech on Thursday night, in my judgment. That’s in and only in political terms. In substance it was both shamelessly and sweepingly dishonest and breathtakingly unhinged from fiscal and economic reality.
Unless, that is, you really think we can raise tens of billions of extra dollars every year forever from that fiscal Aladdin’s Cave — ‘the top 1 per cent’ — to throw at every perceived problem and interest group. Or alternatively, that even bigger future budget deficits than are already in prospect don’t matter.

If that is not horrifying enough, almost a wilfully deliberate determination to turn Australia into the Greece of the South Pacific, Shorten’s overarching coup de destruction is the total insanity, restated aggressively on Thursday night, of the commitment to 50 per cent renewable energy by 2030.

This would at the same time dramatically increase the cost of power to all Australians — probably as much as four times; devastate business across the board; and add billions of dollars to our current account deficit, already running at $80 billion a year, and to our foreign debt, already above $1 trillion, as we write out cheques to ‘Nigerians’ and other emission-permit providing main-chancers.

Apart from the fact that even getting to 50 per cent renewable energy in just 14 years is completely impossible — unless we chose ‘the Venezuelan route’ of literally turning off the lights, so that it would be 50 per cent of a much smaller figure than we currently use.
Such that we had an ‘Earth Hour’ every second hour, say, imposed on us.

Right now we get barely 14 per cent of our total electricity from renewables. So getting to 50 per cent doesn’t sound that hard: you might think, we ‘only’ need to triple it?

Well, think again, about 8 per cent of that 14 per cent comes from the now ‘dirty’ renewable of hydro. We ain’t going to build any more hydro dams; so in the weird space that passes for Shorten’s brain, wind and solar have to go from about 6 per cent to 42 per cent. They have to increase sevenfold, and in just 14 years.

Further, that’s the output they have to produce, given their, ahem, intermittency. We would probably have to build something like 10 times the number of windmills that currently, so uselessly, despoil the countryside.
And even then, we’d still have to keep the coal or gas-fired power stations open because, when the wind don’t blow and the sun don’t shine, the power don’t flow.

That’s why I say, be afraid, be very afraid, because that combination of political slickness and total dishonesty could very well win the election.
This is so, especially against a Prime Minister who is quite frankly and simply a dud; and whose total ineptness at retail politics is going to be on display for eight long, cringingly awful, weeks. …
The Australian terry_mcrann
Terry McCrann asks “would you rather ….”


Read the rest of Shorty's sick plan to destroy Australia in the LINK
https://stopthesethings.com/2016/05/16/labor-to-throw-200bn-to-the-wind-electric...

The Greenie disaster happening in Sth Aust is a stark warning to the rest of Australia to ram the dead beat Greenies into the garbage disposal unit.



How South Australia’s Wind Farm Gamble Led to a Power Crisis
January 10, 2016 by stopthesethings 11 Comments

South Australians dwell in Australia’s economically dismal ‘wind power capital’. Their attempt to rely on these things as a ‘meaningful’ power source sees them not only paying the highest power prices in the Nation by a mile (if not the world, on a purchasing power parity basis) – but sees them glaring at each other through Stone Age ‘gloom’ when its wind power output totally collapses, on a totally unpredictable basis:

The consequences are a thoroughly unreliable grid, prone to mass wind power blackouts, and family punishing and business crippling power prices – which will rocket further as its cheapest base-load plant at Port Augusta is closed in April.

While its vapid Premier, Jay Weatherill jetted 16,000 km to Paris to bathe in his own ‘glory’ – describing his State as a renewable power leader – a slightly different take on SA’s energy policy was being bandied about in the press. The most oft used term employed was ‘crisis’ – raining on Jay’s Paris Climate Jamboree Parade.

The scale and scope of its wind power debacle has hit major employers – such as Nyrstar – like a brick dropped on a sleeping forehead.
So serious has the situation become, that Tom Koutsantonis – SA’s Minister for Finance, State Development, Mineral Resources and Energy, and Small Business – was press ganged into meeting business leaders, who have reached a state of furtive panic about SA’s ludicrous power ‘policy’.

Here’s The Australian with a little detail on SA’s looming date with economic and social disaster.
South Australia faces crisis over power availability, prices
The Australian Rebecca Puddy 21 December 2015

The national energy market regulator has warned that South Australia is likely to face continued price volatility and “significantly lower” electricity availability with the retirement of two gas and coal power stations and an increased reliance on wind.

A report by the Australian Energy Regulator warned that despite the upgrade of the interconnector with Victoria, “current forecasts indicate total capacity (including imports) available to the South Australian region will be significantly lower in 2018 than in 2015”.

The AER said spot prices, which averaged $69 per megawatt hour in the September quarter, were at least 50 per cent higher than in any other state. The warning comes just months ahead of the shutdown of the 546MW capacity Northern Power Station in Port Augusta and the 2017 mothballing of the 480MW capacity Torrens Island A plant, which will leave the state even more reliant on Victoria’s Heywood power station, wind and rooftop solar.

The regulator’s state of the energy market report said wind supplied 33 per cent of electricity consumption from the South Australian grid last financial year and was, at times, the dominant form of generation.

“However, wind generation tends to be lower at times of maximum demand,” it said. “In South Australia, wind typically contributes 10 per cent of its registered capacity during peaks in summer demand.”

South Australia’s reliance on the interconnector from Victoria saw power prices spike to more than $9000 per megawatt hour in an incident last month that also saw supply to 110,000 customers cut for 35 minutes.

The regulator said the state was “islanded” from the rest of the country’s energy market after the Heywood interconnector in Victoria was tripped and local generation could not ramp up quickly enough to replace it.

Alinta chief executive Jeff Dimery told The Australian the state had an increased risk of future brownouts because it had failed to create multiple connection points with interstate power generators.

The company’s Port Augusta power station would remain open until April, extending the employment of its 185-strong workforce and providing the state with locally generated baseload power through to the cooler autumn months, he said. Technical issue­s had taken some of the station offline over the past few months, extending the remaining life of the coal stockpiles.

He said he was not surprised power prices were spiking in the state even before the station had closed. “The reality is that when we were in the market we were being offered sub $50 per megawatt hour and today there are contracts going for $90. There is no question we were holding prices down from being in the market.”

He described coal-fired stations as “yesterday’s assets”, particularly in lieu of Australia’s commitment to the Paris climate accord.

On Wednesday, the Weatherill government called a crisis meeting of energy users and suppliers to discuss the sharp rises and falls in wholesale electricity prices.

Read the rest in the LINK
https://stopthesethings.com/2016/01/10/how-south-australias-wind-farm-gamble-led...

Brian Ross wrote on Jul 17^th, 2016 at 9:34pm:



But they do the "You can't have fossil fuel generation, but we can give money for renewables", so following the UNFCC/IPCC line. Which makes it a proxy (poxy) UN entity.

Brian Ross wrote on Jul 18^th, 2016 at 3:10pm:



I can't help it if you refuse to follow the dots. Like the IMF on the social costs of carbon, that is being pushed by the UNFCCC/IPCC.

'International Monetary Fund (IMF), United Nations (UN) specialized agency, founded at the Bretton Woods Conference in 1944 to secure international monetary cooperation, to stabilize currency exchange rates, and to expand international liquidity (access to hard currencies).'

https://www.britannica.com/topic/International-Monetary-Fund