Robert Gottliebsen is an economics columnist with The Australian, who has recently weighed into Australia’s unfolding renewables driven energy calamity. Late to realise the cost and consequences of Australia’s suicidal renewable policies, Gottliebsen is gobsmacked at what can properly be described as a crime against the Australian people.

Energy crisis: time to invest in emergency power
The Australian
Robert Gottliebsen
27 March 2017

All businesses and households in Victoria, NSW and South Australia need to seriously consider investing substantial sums in diesel generators, batteries or other sources of emergency power. Banks need to be ready to fund the massive investment required during the next nine months.

It is now absolutely clear that each of the state governments have not invested in sufficient emergency power to back their wind and solar installations and now have a network of wires that is unsuitable for the power generation grid they have established.

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Another master of inaction, in action …

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‘inertia’: noun a tendency to do nothing or to remain unchanged; “the bureaucratic inertia of the various tiers of government”

synonyms: inactivity, inaction, inactiveness, inertness, passivity, apathy, accidie, malaise, stagnation, dullness, enervation, sluggishness, lethargy, languor, languidness, listlessness, torpor, torpidity, idleness, indolence, laziness, sloth, slothfulness.

If STT was called upon to provide a single word to describe Malcolm Turnbull’s approach to Australia’s unfolding energy calamity it would have to be ‘inertia’.

A few weeks back we pondered whether Turnbull’s inability to grapple with the single biggest cause of Australia’s energy debacle, the Large-Scale RET is because his son Alex runs an investment fund, Keshik Capital that threw substantial wads of cash at Australia’s most notorious wind power outfit, Infigen – at a time when its shares struggled to top $0.20, but just before his Daddy announced his decision to sign…

There are good reasons for serious and responsible players in the wind industry to be concerned about the industry’s future, and perhaps even more about corporate and personal liabilities. Liabilities there are, but for whom and when will they come visiting, are in the process of being established.

Encouraged by now seen to be ignorant politicians, supported by the Clean Energy Council (the renewable energy industry lobby group), too well-nurtured experts, politically sensitive bureaucrats, and a rag tag of climate alarmists, this undeserving industry has literally enjoyed a golden run at the expense of power consumers.

The golden run has finished. To use the language of modern warfare, the road ahead for this industry is mined with a series of IEDs (improvised explosive devices) already embedded along that now more difficult road.  But with a difference. These IEDs are capable of multiple explosions over a period of time.

IED 1-…

The wanton destruction of Germany’s ancient forests has brought its faux Greens head the head with those who actually care about the environment.

The BUND (Friends of the Earth Germany) was long ago hijacked by eco-fascists keen to profit from the great wind power fraud.

With rocketing power prices and an increasingly unstable grid, Germans are no longer content to sit back and allow their pristine landscape to be destroyed on the farcical notion that giant industrial wind turbines will, somehow, save the planet.

Germans Horrified That Forests, “Strictly Protected” Species, Being Cleared Away For Wind Parks
No Tricks Zone
Pierre Gosselin
19 February 2017

In Germany forests are almost considered sacred, and are powerfully anchored into the German cultural psyche. Disturbing them is absolutely frowned upon, to put it mildly. This is all the more reason why Germans nationwide have been horrified by the mass deforestation taking place to…

The Federal Large-Scale RET has just claimed another scalp in the shape of 1,600MW of reliable base-load plant at Hazelwood, Victoria – as well as more than 1,000 well-paid blue-collar jobs and an entire regional community.

That loss follows hot on the heels of the breathtakingly stupid decision by South Australia’s hapless Labor government to reject, out of hand, offers by Alinta to keep its Port Augusta plant up and running.

While Labor is keeping the terms of what was offered under wraps (fighting freedom of information applications being pursued by SA Liberals and the media), STT’s SA operatives inform us that the owners of Port Augusta, Alinta would have accepted around $27 million to keep its plant running for another 5 years, representing the dismissal of what would have been a canny investment – compared with the $550 million of taxpayers’ money that Weatherill is determined to throw at a

Australia’s energy crisis is all self-inflicted and largely down to the scaremongering waged by global warming catastrophists.

A rolling jumble of false premises and false promises, the frenzied and ill-thought-out reaction to the ‘threat’ posed by CO2 gas has all but destroyed Australia’s once natural advantage of having abundant, cheap and reliable energy.

Here’s The Australian’s Nick Cater on the Genesis of a perfectly avoidable calamity.

Look out when science and politics tell us the future
The Australian
Nick Cater
15 March 15 2017

The broken promises of green energy were as inevitable as they will be costly

A growing mood of catastrophism is enveloping our more serious newspapers as the cost of anthropogenic change to the business climate bites.

A decade of ill-judged environmental and energy policy has exacted a terrible toll on the national economy. There is little chance of the investment needed to rid South Australia of…