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New South Wales politicians surrounding the A.C.T. do not want Canberra’s wind farms in NSW

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The ACT Government wants to source 200 megawats of power from wind farms in surrounding NSW to power 80,000 Canberra homes by 2020.

It is part of the Government’s target of generating 90 per cent of Canberra’s energy from renewable sources within the next six years.
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I note the ACT Chief Minister says there is no room in the ACT for these wind farms. I thought the ACT had plenty of high country that would be windy – what do readers think?

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ABC says – “Wave energy company Oceanlinx in administration”

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Ran into trouble at Carrickalinga south of Adelaide while being towed to Port Macdonnell near Mount Gambier. I wonder how much taxpayers money has gone into these wave energy ventures over a decade or so – does anybody keep a tally?
How about a successful working project somewhere?

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NSW Govt backs clearing of “Invasive Native Species” for burning to generate electricity in the Cobar region

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Fascinating article from The Land – page 1 and page 3 – I have had Cobar people telling me about this for months.

Is this the sort of scheme where you might expect to read about “carbon credits”?- I do not see that here – but there is another article to come. Has anybody got a view re these Cobar INS when burnt releasing heat equal to “…between brown and black coal.” Another point not clear is what happens to the ash. Is that trucked back to the source land to be added as soil carbon? Many vital details yet to emerge.
On another timber subject – turn to page 11 and there is an account of how the properties from crashed often ASX listed “managed investment schemes” MIS, to grow plantation timber – are hitting the land market. Near a $Billion worth. These huge disasters date from more than a decade ago. Where is that Beijing phone number.
Going back to 2006 or so I recall this news from Cobar as landholders disagreed with the NSW Govt over land clearing – this from December 2006.
Note Cobar has grid electricity through Essential Energy.

Renewable Energy

Why is the Abbott Govt still presenting this 2011 GreenLabor scheme for 100% electricity generation from renewables by 2030 or 2050 or whenever?

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Surely it does not belong anywhere other than listed on some archive of Govt publications. Capital costs greater than $332Billion and the need to obtain 5000 square kms of land – only 70 x 70km. GreenLeft pie-in-the-sky-fairy-story-twaddle.

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BBC – Climate change and EU energy challenges – fails to mention “elephant in room” increase in German coal use

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The BBC’s Gavin Hewitt says – “Thirdly, Angela Merkel’s U-turn. After the Fukushima nuclear disaster in Japan in 2011 the German chancellor took an usually swift decision: Germany moved away from nuclear power and bet its future on renewables.” Interesting that Bloomberg reports “Ten new hard-coal power stations, or 7,985 megawatts, are scheduled to start producing electricity in the next two years, according to information from German grid regulator Bundesnetzagentur and operators.”
This graphic from the IEA shows the mix of electricity generation in Germany as of 2011.

You can see nuclear has been in decline for a few years. The European Nuclear Society says that eight German nuclear plants were shut down in 2011 and in 2012 the nine remaining plants generated near 100TWh or about one sixth of German electricity.
For an up to date view on coal fired electricity generation in Germany – Speigel said two weeks ago – “That means that coal plants are making up for the bulk of the energy production lost due to the 2011 shutdown of eight nuclear plants,…”
Bloomberg say the numbers mean – “The 10 new units will boost German hard coal generation capacity by 33 percent to 32,432 megawatts from 24,447 megawatts as of Oct. 16, regulator data show.” So in the next few years the percentage of German electricity generated from coal could challenge all time highs of 1983.
Funny that Gavin Hewitt and the BBC found it easy not to mention the expansion of coal use – but went on for paragraphs about the small renewables sector.

Renewable Energy, Resources

Northern Territory Government says the Henbury Carbon Farming project was “illegal”

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Readers know that I have several articles on the Henbury Carbon Farm venture which failed last year.
Last September I missed this ABC news 3 Sep 2013 – NT Government says Henbury carbon farming was “illegal”
Quote – [The Primary Industry Minister Willem Westra van Holthe told Northern Territory Parliament the project was illegal, because carbon farming is a non-pastoral use.]
There is a Ministerial media release too
Taxpayers of Australia ponied up $9million – to help buy Henbury.
For those not up with every intricacy of downunder politics.
Land in Australia is managed by States and Territories, not the Federal Govt.
The Henbury carbon farming project commenced in the Northern Territory at a time the NT had a Labor Govt – and the Australian Federal Govt was GreenLabor.
The NT election of 25 August 2012 returned a Country Liberal Party Govt which is to the right of Labor.
In early 2013 news emerged that Henbury had failed.
On 7 Sep 2013 Australia voted in a new Federal Liberal-Country Coalition Govt.
I am not trying to imply that the change in the NT Govt caused anything at Henbury.
Despite these changes the mystery of why Henbury failed continues.
What a classic GreenLabor shambles – I wonder what the entire disaster has cost.

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Labor’s Joel Fitzgibbon not enthusiastic about sacred cow green energy targets

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A rare and welcome chink in GreenLabor armour – Labor’s whip Joel Fitzgibbon calls for green target cut
We have often discussed these issues here – check the Renewable Energy list.
Although not mentioned by Mr Fitzgibbon – if we keep aiming for the existing RET target while gross electricity use is declining we will for sure end up with a less stable grid sooner than expected. Welcome to the new GreenLabor world.
My comments from February point out where an ever increasing RET component of our electricty grid is taking us.
So – if you want an increaing possibility of brown outs, black outs and more expensive electricity, Vote GreenLabor.
– if you particularly want more expensive electricity, Vote GreenLabor.
– if you want to be getting up in the middle of the night when you might be able to afford to run appliances, Vote GreenLabor.
– if you will enjoy owning a portable engine driven Electricity Generator, Vote GreenLabor.
– if you will enjoy the sound and smell of portable engine driven Electricity Generators all over your suburb, Vote GreenLabor.
– if you are mechanically handy and will enjoy rigging up a household wind powered generator and like the idea of paying for that plus banks of large and heavy batteries, then paying for their upkeep and replacement, Vote GreenLabor.
Readers might suggest other reasons to vote GreenLabor.
Andrew Bolt says – Fitzgibbon goes cool on pricey green power
Alan Moran has expert comment at Catallaxy –
Renewable Energy and the Carbon Tax: Government and Coalition Both Half Wrong
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Scotland aims for 100% renewable energy

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