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- Former Greens Leader Bob Brown says wind industry and renewables are profiteering off climate Sat, 23 Dec 23, 8:12amBob Brown’s Foundation protests at the Robbins Island Wind Farm By Jo Nova Every day the Greens sound more like Skeptics Finally, the wheel turns and the Greens start to realize their bedfellows might be the environmental...
- Battery of the Nation goes flat Fri, 11 Aug 23, 5:37amBy Jo Nova A second big Australian “Pumped Hydro” scheme is crashing on economic rocks… The Marinus Link cable was meant to spark a glorious renewables boom and make Tasmania “The Battery of the Nation”,...
- Mega Wind farm approved that can’t operate half the year Fri, 9 Dec 22, 4:21pmBy Jo Nova When does it make sense to build 122 giant industrial turbines that can’t operate for nearly half a year?
- CSIRO says we need to do pandemic type shutdowns every year to meet Paris Sat, 15 Aug 20, 5:59amThey told us if we stopped driving our cars that global CO2 levels would fall. But after 6 months of the most draconian low carbon diet ever, Cape Grimm Tasmania is still measuring a normal rise in CO2 levels.
- Tasmania wins Freeloader Climate Fashion Award for aim to “be 200% renewable” by 2040 Fri, 6 Mar 20, 1:34pmThe Tasmanian Government has just announced they will be “200% renewable” by 2040 — a feat only possible because they have an umbilical cord to hostages in the mainland who have to pay for irrelevant surges...
- Robbins Island Mega wind farm: killing birds and baseload power at 300 kilometers per hour Sat, 27 Jul 19, 5:05amAfter nearly two weeks the ABC carrier pigeons finally brought the news that Bob Brown, former Greens leader, is campaigning against this gigantic wind farm — the $1.6b one in NW Tasmania that wants to be the largest...
- The Battery of the Nation disconnected for two months – Basslink cable inoperable again Thu, 10 May 18, 6:52pmFor the last year everyone has been calling Tasmania the “Battery of the Nation” — Turnbull, Hydro Tasmania, government departments, the ever hopeful green press...
- ABC renewables fantasy island “farewells diesel” (except for 40% of its power) Sun, 5 Nov 17, 5:47pmABC renewables hype strikes again: Rhiannon Shine reports Flinders Island as a showcase of the brave new renewables world. Let’s translate that spin and see just how pathetic it is. If anywhere was going to be totally...
- Climate control gone wrong: Tasmanian Hydro seeded clouds before disastrous floods Sat, 11 Jun 16, 1:29pmGreedy Green Hubris gone wrong? It took months of bad choices to achieve this Gold-Star Moment in Bad Management: