Nice to see reality hitting in GodZone across the ditch.
Spies have told me of these headlines in New Zealand – I note the Green/pinko Australian media has ignored this so far. Prime Ministers might say one thing when rubbing noses at some Pacific Forum but when the hoopla is over…..
The Otago Daily Times reports “Government hits brakes on ETS” and in the dear old NZ Herald – Brian Fallow writes – “Softer still on climate change effort”
Kiwis must keep up opposition to what is left of the stupid and harmful ETS – or some idiot Govt will bring it in one of these years.
Australian Government stands idly by while motorists ripped off at the petrol pump
This graphic demonstrates how our useless Commonwealth Green-Labor Government is so preoccupied with its own survival – and passing their idiot Carbon Tax – that for three months now they have failed to notice how the Oil co’s are ripping off Australian families. From eyeballing the chart – at least 15c should be carved off all pump prices now.
If our Govt had any guts they would long ago have set up an Australian Fuels Corp to import tankerloads of ULP to supply service stations at fair prices.
Imagine the screams. How brilliantly successful has Oil Co PR been over the decades at conning Australian Govts and media.
All ULP prices from FuelTrac/AAA and the West Texas Crude & US vs AU$ data from Proview.
Green MP says NSW Govt wasting dam water to benefit Kurnell desalination plant economics
NSW Upper House Green MP John Kaye is raising the issue that the NSW Govt has stopped pumping surplus Shoalhaven water to Warragamba dam to keep Warragamba under 80% full – which apparently is the trigger level for shutting down the Kurnell seawater desalination plant. He says the Govt wants to sell Kurnell and I suppose it is not rocket science that Kurnell needs to be operating to be an attractive investment.
I wonder what readers think of this – there are a lot of contradictory nuances in this story. But overall – that the NSW Govt would want the Warragamba Dam level capped or worse – would fit with what I know of Govt water policies in Perth, the ACT and Melbourne – which for a decade have all driven up prices and beaten up scarcity – against the interests of water consumers.
This article indicates the NSW Govt stopped the transfer of Shoalhaven water to Warragamba in late 2008 – near 3 years ago – not 15 months ago.
This page talks chapter and verse how the NSW Govt will increase environmental flows out of Sydney dam water supplies if inflows increase – aided and abetted by the anti-Dam Greens of course – no surprises there.
Obama never mentioned – global warming – IPCC – Kyoto – carbon – greenhouse effect or climate change
Thanks to the ABC we heard the Obama jobs speech (8 Sept 11). You would not have thought the great IPCC driven boondoggle of a “climate threat” even existed.
How crazy is Australia to be burdening our economy with the GreenLabor Carbon Tax.
WA Premier still talking utter rubbish about rainfall
What is it about something as simple as rainfall that gets our leaders and politicians talking nonsense ?
Remember in 2007 (during May that had average rainfall) the then WA Premier Alan Carpenter said – “It has stopped raining in the south west of Western Australia……”.
And it is not just WA Premiers, NSW too has the virus.
Anyway – it has happened again.
The Perth Arena which is under construction is afflicted by mould – which is causing those involved some angst and the WA Premier Colin Barnett opines that it is due to a wet winter. How does the media not call him out over such nonsense. A quick check of BoM data shows Perth has had a winter (Jun-Jul-Aug) with 448mm rain compared to a long term average of 479mm.
So it has NOT been a wet winter.
I wonder if the Premier has been brainwashed by a decade of WA Govt Water bureaucracies propaganda about “Our drying climate”.
Does he believe now that Perth normal winters now are dry ?
Dry enough to build the arena without safeguarding against rain ?
I do not know.
But surely it is obvious to anybody with the brains to check Perth’s rain history, that the winter months are very likely to see a fair bit of rain.
What will this cost WA taxpayers ?
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Perth economic regulator warns Green power schemes badly flawed
What have climate sceptics been saying for years ?
Watchdog warns about cost of green power
BEN HARVEY and DANIEL MERCER, The West Australian August 12, 2011, 2:50 am
The State’s economic watchdog has warned that policies to encourage green power such as wind farms are badly flawed and may drive up household electricity bills without good reason.
As Prime Minister Julia Gillard last night talked up the carbon tax at a community meeting at Perth Town Hall, the Economic Regulation Authority dropped a politically explosive report on the real cost and impact of renewable energy sources.
The authority called for a rethink on the subsidies enjoyed by the green energy sector and backed a price on carbon as an efficient way to influence markets.
Energy Minister Peter Collier rejected the finding on the efficiency of a carbon tax but conceded the rush for wind farms and rooftop solar panels was costing the State a fortune for negligible environmental rewards.
Authority boss Lyndon Rowe said the real cost of producing environmentally friendly electricity had to take into consideration the expense of having base-load power stations on standby.
And the cost of upgrading transmission lines to deal with the erratic electricity supply associated with solar panels and wind farms needed to be factored in.
“This is not an argument against renewables, it is an argument about going to renewables in the most efficient way,” he said.
In a key finding in its annual wholesale electricity market report, the authority noted renewable energy incentive schemes “will be a major driver of higher electricity prices in WA and impose significant additional costs on consumers”.
“The authority is concerned that unless there is pressure on retailers to procure green electricity at the lowest cost, then inefficient costs will be passed on to consumers,” the report stated.
“Evidence shows the current Federal and State renewable energy incentive schemes are an expensive, economically inefficient means to achieve the policy objective of greenhouse gas abatement.”
Mr Collier said that as a signatory to a national agreement for States to have 20 per cent of power from renewable sources by 2020, the WA Government was required to take the financial pain for what he admitted would be a “negligible” environmental benefit.
“In crude economic terms I agree with what he (Mr Rowe) has said,” Mr Collier said.
“It (renewable energy) is three or four times more expensive than other sources. But this is as much about changing community attitudes as anything else.”
Sustainable Energy Association chief executive Ray Wills conceded measures to encourage renewable energy generation had pushed up average power bills but denied the increase had been significant.
Growing unpopularity of GreenLabor Canberra Government corresponds exactly with post April weakness in the ASX
Comparing one year charts for DOW and ASX All Ords – note how the ASX has performed much worse that the DOW – particularly since April this year. Yet the fundamentals of our economy would be sounder than in the USA.
IMHO the unpopular GreenLabor Govt in Canberra is the cause of most of the difference. Everybody knows they view the productive sectors of our economy as simply a source of extra taxation – that they then redistribute to their unproductive constituency. Just off the charts in May 2010 they announced version 1 of the mining tax – that had a negative effect on the ASX that has been added to by the version 2 mining tax proposal – and lately the Carbon Tax.
DOW
ASX All Ords (Charts by Proview)
A year of “Newspolls” measuring shifting Australian Federal “Two Party Preferred” voting intentions. Note how the collapse in the ASX relative to the DOW started in April – exactly when the popularity of the Canberra GreenLabor Govt began to collapse.
Millions of Australian investors realise that the Gillard/Brown GreenLabor Government in Canberra knows little about safeguarding Australian prosperity.
Post March 11 as talk around introducing the Govts. new Carbon Tax increased and caused the Govt to become more unpopular – worried investors began to take cash out of the ASX. Our Nation is now weaker than it need be – had we had prudent economic managers.
The sooner the Gillard/Brown GreenLabor Government in Canberra comes to an end – the better for our Nation and all of us.
No wonder concerned Australians are planning a “Convoy of No Confidence” – actually eleven truck convoys converging on Canberra on 22 August.
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