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Well this is infuriating. Australian energy prices could be slashed overnight simply by allowing our coal fire power stations to operate at full capacity. Senator Matt Canavan says at the moment it’s only 50%. Increasing that to 90% would be the same as opening 3 new power stations. So... show more

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Coal prices have risen internationally but Ukraine had nothing to do with #energy prices rising in Australia. Investment in #solar and #wind is to blame. It is important that the government in this country start facing reality and stop hiding the problem. The #Ukraine has nothing to do with #coal prices in this country. In fact, Australian coal prices did not rise at all under their existing long term contracts for our #coal-fired power stations. The government must stop misleading parliament that rising electricity prices in Australia are due to a war in the Ukraine. Massive solar and wind #subsidies are the cause of Australians suffering some of the highest #electricity prices in the world. Every time a coal fired power station is shut in this country we see yet the another spike in our power bills because unreliable #renewables cannot provide the same inexpensive baseload power supply. This government's Safeguard Mechanism Bill will add even more fines to reliable coal-fired power and yet more pain for Australian households. #UnitedNations #ClimateScam #Australia

Coal prices have risen internationally but Ukraine had nothing to do with #energy prices rising in Australia. Investment in #solar and #wind is to blame. It is important that the government in this country start facing reality and stop hiding the problem. The #Ukraine has nothing to do with #coal prices in this country. In fact, Australian coal prices did not rise at all under their existing long term contracts for our #coal-fired power stations. The government must stop misleading parliament that rising electricity prices in Australia are due to a war in the Ukraine. Massive solar and wind #subsidies are the cause of Australians suffering some of the highest #electricity prices in the world. Every time a coal fired power station is shut in this country we see yet the another spike in our power bills because unreliable #renewables cannot provide the same inexpensive baseload power supply. This government's Safeguard Mechanism Bill will add even more fines to reliable coal-fired power and yet more pain for Australian households. #UnitedNations #ClimateScam #Australia

Malcolm Roberts 🇦🇺

35,763 views • 3 years ago

With yesterday’s fire at Victorias oil refinery Australia is skating on very thin ice. Albanese needs to take immediate action to get the military to build an oil refinery. The private sector is driven by profit not national security. That’s why Government needs to own and operate essential services along the private sector. We have public schools and hospitals because we know that the private sector won’t build these essential services if they can’t make a buck. You’ve only got to look at bank branch closures and the privatisation of our Insurance offices to see that once completely privatised, services rapidly decline. The same for oil refineries - we need energy for our essential services such as the Military, Health, Policing and Agriculture. Therefore the government has to step in and build refineries as the private sector can’t be trusted to put the national interest first. The same for our state governments. They need to urgently start building coal fired power stations if they want to re-industrialise Australia. The QLD premier is talking about big game when it comes to the Taroom trough but that is years away at best. How about he gets busy and starts building more power stations for the coal that we know we have.

With yesterday’s fire at Victorias oil refinery Australia is skating on very thin ice. Albanese needs to take immediate action to get the military to build an oil refinery. The private sector is driven by profit not national security. That’s why Government needs to own and operate essential services along the private sector. We have public schools and hospitals because we know that the private sector won’t build these essential services if they can’t make a buck. You’ve only got to look at bank branch closures and the privatisation of our Insurance offices to see that once completely privatised, services rapidly decline. The same for oil refineries - we need energy for our essential services such as the Military, Health, Policing and Agriculture. Therefore the government has to step in and build refineries as the private sector can’t be trusted to put the national interest first. The same for our state governments. They need to urgently start building coal fired power stations if they want to re-industrialise Australia. The QLD premier is talking about big game when it comes to the Taroom trough but that is years away at best. How about he gets busy and starts building more power stations for the coal that we know we have.

Gerard Rennick

27,711 views • 3 months ago

Highlights of China’s military parade today, at which Dan Andrews was a special guest of honor. Australia needs to wake up quickly to the fact that everything to do with net zero hands the Communist Chinese an economic, political, and military advantage. The Australian politicians who have legislated to prevent the building of new coal-fired power stations in Australia and to restrict Australian industry from using coal-fired power—while at the very same time Australian coal is shipped to China, where the country has over 421 GW of new coal-fired power stations under construction and development—are engaged in an act of treason.

Highlights of China’s military parade today, at which Dan Andrews was a special guest of honor. Australia needs to wake up quickly to the fact that everything to do with net zero hands the Communist Chinese an economic, political, and military advantage. The Australian politicians who have legislated to prevent the building of new coal-fired power stations in Australia and to restrict Australian industry from using coal-fired power—while at the very same time Australian coal is shipped to China, where the country has over 421 GW of new coal-fired power stations under construction and development—are engaged in an act of treason.

Craig Kelly:🇦🇺Foundation for Economic Education

20,557 views • 11 months ago

Our Director Andrew Montford explains why Britain might be forced to go back to coal. “Many of the power stations are due to close and the lead time for a new gas-fired power station is now as long as 5 years… what that means is we are probably going to need to go back to coal.”

Our Director Andrew Montford explains why Britain might be forced to go back to coal. “Many of the power stations are due to close and the lead time for a new gas-fired power station is now as long as 5 years… what that means is we are probably going to need to go back to coal.”

Net Zero Watch

11,964 views • 2 months ago

New Zealand PM Chris Luxon rejects outright the suggestion that his govt might use nuclear power. Instead, Mr Luxon wants to double the supply of “renewables”. He says nuclear would be unsuitable because of NZ’s earthquake problem. However the threat of earthquakes in Japan is pretty similar to NZ and they are expanding their nuclear energy resources. In 2023, nuclear power accounted for approximately 8.5% of Japan's electricity supply. They intend to increase this to 20-22% by 2030. Partly to reduce CO2 emissions in line with Japan’s Net Zero obligations. So why is it OK for Japan but not New Zealand? IMHO the renewables obsessed Mr Luxon and the gormless CEOs running our mainly govt owned energy generation/ transmission companies are going to send NZ industry to the wall. Leaving aside the effect constantly rising electricity prices have on the man in the street. Through grocery prices and other everyday purchases. If we leave coal, hydro, gas and geothermal aside for the sake of the argument, nuclear may or not be a viable energy option for NZ. However it can’t be any worse than the fools errand we are presently on with wind and solar.

New Zealand PM Chris Luxon rejects outright the suggestion that his govt might use nuclear power. Instead, Mr Luxon wants to double the supply of “renewables”. He says nuclear would be unsuitable because of NZ’s earthquake problem. However the threat of earthquakes in Japan is pretty similar to NZ and they are expanding their nuclear energy resources. In 2023, nuclear power accounted for approximately 8.5% of Japan's electricity supply. They intend to increase this to 20-22% by 2030. Partly to reduce CO2 emissions in line with Japan’s Net Zero obligations. So why is it OK for Japan but not New Zealand? IMHO the renewables obsessed Mr Luxon and the gormless CEOs running our mainly govt owned energy generation/ transmission companies are going to send NZ industry to the wall. Leaving aside the effect constantly rising electricity prices have on the man in the street. Through grocery prices and other everyday purchases. If we leave coal, hydro, gas and geothermal aside for the sake of the argument, nuclear may or not be a viable energy option for NZ. However it can’t be any worse than the fools errand we are presently on with wind and solar.

The Redbaiter

15,329 views • 11 months ago

Friedrich Hayek: “Marxists can never understand the functioning of the market. They believe it’s the costs which determine prices. The truth is exactly the opposite: it’s prices which tell people how much cost they ought to involve... It is prices by which the knowledge of millions of people can be conveyed to others and serve as a guide to them.”

Friedrich Hayek: “Marxists can never understand the functioning of the market. They believe it’s the costs which determine prices. The truth is exactly the opposite: it’s prices which tell people how much cost they ought to involve... It is prices by which the knowledge of millions of people can be conveyed to others and serve as a guide to them.”

F. A. Hayek Quotes

98,375 views • 23 days ago

Denmark is held up as proof a fossil grid can be replaced. But electricity prices have more than doubled since 2000. Moreover, the majority of what is labelled "renewable" is actually biomass. That is, wood. Trees are cut, often abroad, compressed into pellets, shipped in and then burnt for power. At the smokestack, more CO2 is released than just simply burning gas. But it is labelled as "green" because the emissions are not counted at the power plant - they are 1) assigned to the country where the trees were cut, and 2) assumed to be reabsorbed by future regrowth. So the system works like this: Cut trees. Burn them. Emit CO2. Call it clean. Laughably, 64% of Denmark's renewable energy comes from this process.

Denmark is held up as proof a fossil grid can be replaced. But electricity prices have more than doubled since 2000. Moreover, the majority of what is labelled "renewable" is actually biomass. That is, wood. Trees are cut, often abroad, compressed into pellets, shipped in and then burnt for power. At the smokestack, more CO2 is released than just simply burning gas. But it is labelled as "green" because the emissions are not counted at the power plant - they are 1) assigned to the country where the trees were cut, and 2) assumed to be reabsorbed by future regrowth. So the system works like this: Cut trees. Burn them. Emit CO2. Call it clean. Laughably, 64% of Denmark's renewable energy comes from this process.

Electroverse

57,581 views • 3 months ago

Hayek on Marxism vs economic reality: “Marxists can never understand the functioning of the market. They believe it’s the costs which determine prices.” “The truth is exactly the opposite: it’s prices which tell people how much cost they ought to involve. It is prices by which the knowledge of millions of people can be conveyed to others and serve as a guide to them.”

Hayek on Marxism vs economic reality: “Marxists can never understand the functioning of the market. They believe it’s the costs which determine prices.” “The truth is exactly the opposite: it’s prices which tell people how much cost they ought to involve. It is prices by which the knowledge of millions of people can be conveyed to others and serve as a guide to them.”

F. A. Hayek Quotes

101,628 views • 3 months ago

The strategic military tactic of using air raids to target power stations—aiming to cripple an enemy’s electrical grid to weaken their industrial capacity—has been employed in conflicts from World War II right through to the most recent regional wars. If Australia were ever attacked, the first thing any competent enemy would do is hammer is our electricity generating infrastructure. They would seek to bomb our coal-fired power stations into oblivion. But in Australia today, the enemy is already inside the gates. We don’t need foreign bombers. We have the Net Zero mafia and the climate cultists doing the job for them, as they systematically blow up our reliable coal-fired power stations. The latest casualty is the Liddell Power Station, owned by AGL. For AGL, shutting it down and “blowing it up” was a cold, anti-competitive profit-maximising decision. By deliberately reducing supply, they drove up the wholesale electricity prices they were receiving from their other generating assets, making the company far more profitable with Liddell destroyed than running. AGL even rejected a $250 million offer from a competitor who wanted to buy Liddell and keep it operating. The station was literally worth more to AGL dead than alive. This is textbook anti-competitive behaviour by a company with substantial market power. It should be illegal. Yet when I raised this directly with the ACCC, they refused to anything. The brutal bottom line is this: if it weren’t for the deranged Net Zero obsession and the suicidal Paris Accord (which the USA has abandoned and China simply ignores), a brand-new, high-efficiency, low-emissions coal-fired power station should have been commissioned at Liddell back in 2018 for around $4 billion. Instead, we’ve already wasted over $40 billion on the energy-destroying white elephant called Snowy 2.0. We are not being invaded. The enemy is already inside the gates. We are committing national energy suicide — aided and abetted by our own politicians, bureaucrats, and corporate rent-seekers.

Craig Kelly:🇦🇺Foundation for Economic Education

19,319 views • 2 months ago

Senator Matt Canavan warns energy prices to surge another 26% after rebates axed. ‘How is it that the Australian government can not deliver affordable electricity to Australians when we have some of the best energy resources on the world.’ Labor have just ripped off the band-aid to reveal the open wound. Their failed Net zero policies.

Senator Matt Canavan warns energy prices to surge another 26% after rebates axed. ‘How is it that the Australian government can not deliver affordable electricity to Australians when we have some of the best energy resources on the world.’ Labor have just ripped off the band-aid to reveal the open wound. Their failed Net zero policies.

Kat A 🌸

15,060 views • 8 months ago

It’s one thing when Blackout Bowen lies in Australia, because he knows the Australian media will let him get away with it. But when he peddles his lies on the international stage, he not only embarrasses Australia, but the whole world gets to see what a fool he is. To claim there is a "rapid transition to renewables" is a lie. There is no transition whatsoever. The facts are that the world is using more energy and The use of fossil fuels not only continues to increase, but fossil fuel use is increasing faster than the increase in renewables. To claim that "renewables" will overtake coal sometime this year, is a prediction about a future event, but it has as much chance as being true as Bowen’s predictions that electricity prices would be $275 lower. Last year coal provided almost 46,000 TWh of electricity - and with China going gang-busters building new fired power stations, that number will only increase. By comparison solar and wind combined 11,400 TWh

It’s one thing when Blackout Bowen lies in Australia, because he knows the Australian media will let him get away with it. But when he peddles his lies on the international stage, he not only embarrasses Australia, but the whole world gets to see what a fool he is. To claim there is a "rapid transition to renewables" is a lie. There is no transition whatsoever. The facts are that the world is using more energy and The use of fossil fuels not only continues to increase, but fossil fuel use is increasing faster than the increase in renewables. To claim that "renewables" will overtake coal sometime this year, is a prediction about a future event, but it has as much chance as being true as Bowen’s predictions that electricity prices would be $275 lower. Last year coal provided almost 46,000 TWh of electricity - and with China going gang-busters building new fired power stations, that number will only increase. By comparison solar and wind combined 11,400 TWh

Craig Kelly:🇦🇺Foundation for Economic Education

32,234 views • 10 months ago

"The fact that you have high energy costs is reason enough to get rid of the people running your country." Tucker Carlson nails the green energy scam in Australia. Why are our electricity prices so high when we have the largest coal reserves in the world? We need our country back.

"The fact that you have high energy costs is reason enough to get rid of the people running your country." Tucker Carlson nails the green energy scam in Australia. Why are our electricity prices so high when we have the largest coal reserves in the world? We need our country back.

Alex James

123,282 views • 2 years ago

Reposting because the AEC requires authorisation... "AEC rules Abbie Chatfield does not need authorisation for podcast, but cross-posting rules unclear" - There are rules for some but not others. ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• It’s time governments stopped lying about renewable energy. “The federal government’s wind farm subsidies are enriching foreign corporates and leaving Australians worse off, all in an effort to prop up unreliable and inefficient renewable energy projects,” said Mia Schlicht, Research Fellow at the Institute of Public Affairs. Today, the IPA released new research detailing how the federal government’s Large-scale Renewable Energy Target (LRET) guarantees a river of gold for predominantly foreign owned wind farms and how the cost is transferred to electricity consumers. The research found: In 2024, through the LRET subsidy scheme, a total of $1.04 billion was paid by electricity consumers to the 50 largest wind farms operating in Australia. 35 of Australia’s 50 largest wind farms, 70 per cent, are entirely or partially foreign owned. Australian energy consumers were forced to pay $689 million to foreign owned wind farms. “In the middle of a cost-of-living crisis, the federal government is forcing Australian electricity consumers to hand over $1 billion through hidden charges on their power bills to largely foreign owned companies, all in the name of net zero,” said Ms Schlicht. “How can the Prime Minister, having broken his promise to cut household power bills, justify sending over $689 million to foreign companies when mainstream Australians cannot afford their power bills?” To meet economy wrecking emissions reduction targets, the federal government forces electricity retailers to purchase large-scale generation certificates from renewable energy producers. This artificially inflates the demand for renewables, with added costs passed on to consumers.” One of the biggest subsides that renewables get is the renewable energy target that forces energy retailers to buy renewable energy or they get penalised. This forces demand for renewables up in the short window that the sun is shining which increases the price of energy via your power bill. This scheme isn’t well understood but it should be, because if people knew how much it was increasing their power bills and that the money was going offshore they would be up in arms. People First will continue to lobby for the removal of the RET as it is unacceptable the energy prices are being forced up because of it. Quote from:

Reposting because the AEC requires authorisation... "AEC rules Abbie Chatfield does not need authorisation for podcast, but cross-posting rules unclear" - There are rules for some but not others. ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• It’s time governments stopped lying about renewable energy. “The federal government’s wind farm subsidies are enriching foreign corporates and leaving Australians worse off, all in an effort to prop up unreliable and inefficient renewable energy projects,” said Mia Schlicht, Research Fellow at the Institute of Public Affairs. Today, the IPA released new research detailing how the federal government’s Large-scale Renewable Energy Target (LRET) guarantees a river of gold for predominantly foreign owned wind farms and how the cost is transferred to electricity consumers. The research found: In 2024, through the LRET subsidy scheme, a total of $1.04 billion was paid by electricity consumers to the 50 largest wind farms operating in Australia. 35 of Australia’s 50 largest wind farms, 70 per cent, are entirely or partially foreign owned. Australian energy consumers were forced to pay $689 million to foreign owned wind farms. “In the middle of a cost-of-living crisis, the federal government is forcing Australian electricity consumers to hand over $1 billion through hidden charges on their power bills to largely foreign owned companies, all in the name of net zero,” said Ms Schlicht. “How can the Prime Minister, having broken his promise to cut household power bills, justify sending over $689 million to foreign companies when mainstream Australians cannot afford their power bills?” To meet economy wrecking emissions reduction targets, the federal government forces electricity retailers to purchase large-scale generation certificates from renewable energy producers. This artificially inflates the demand for renewables, with added costs passed on to consumers.” One of the biggest subsides that renewables get is the renewable energy target that forces energy retailers to buy renewable energy or they get penalised. This forces demand for renewables up in the short window that the sun is shining which increases the price of energy via your power bill. This scheme isn’t well understood but it should be, because if people knew how much it was increasing their power bills and that the money was going offshore they would be up in arms. People First will continue to lobby for the removal of the RET as it is unacceptable the energy prices are being forced up because of it. Quote from:

Gerard Rennick

30,562 views • 1 year ago

40% of Britain’s power is renewable, so why aren’t your energy bills lower? We’re operating thousands of wind turbines on a system designed for a few coal stations. It’s costing you billions. We need reform. Watch our CEO Greg Jackson make the case for zonal energy pricing:

40% of Britain’s power is renewable, so why aren’t your energy bills lower? We’re operating thousands of wind turbines on a system designed for a few coal stations. It’s costing you billions. We need reform. Watch our CEO Greg Jackson make the case for zonal energy pricing:

Octopus Energy

52,989 views • 1 year ago

The US needs to unleash more domestic baseload power to meet our robust energy and AI goals as a nation. As for offshore wind, it’s an intermittent source of energy that is not a substitute for baseload power. Natural gas, nuclear, coal, etc. can’t be held back, shouldn’t be held back, and, at the Trump EPA, WON’T BE HELD BACK!

The US needs to unleash more domestic baseload power to meet our robust energy and AI goals as a nation. As for offshore wind, it’s an intermittent source of energy that is not a substitute for baseload power. Natural gas, nuclear, coal, etc. can’t be held back, shouldn’t be held back, and, at the Trump EPA, WON’T BE HELD BACK!

Lee Zeldin

117,693 views • 11 months ago

MIC DROP: Peter Hitchens unapologetically exposes the ludicrous nature of Net Zero, to the horror of BBC Question Time panellists and audience members. "We didn't just close down our coal fired power stations, we blew them up, we were so certain we were right to do so. At the same time, China is building the equivalent of two new coal fired power stations a week. India has a vast expansion programme of coal fired power stations." "The contribution which this country is making to these outcomes is not merely minimal, it's non-existent. Everything that we do is completely blotted out by what much larger countries are doing to maintain their own power." "If you want to live in a country where nobody can afford to heat their house... if you want lots of people to lose their jobs because there's no energy, if you want to be cold all the time... then carry on believing that the demand to go for Net Zero is intelligent and thoughtful."

MIC DROP: Peter Hitchens unapologetically exposes the ludicrous nature of Net Zero, to the horror of BBC Question Time panellists and audience members. "We didn't just close down our coal fired power stations, we blew them up, we were so certain we were right to do so. At the same time, China is building the equivalent of two new coal fired power stations a week. India has a vast expansion programme of coal fired power stations." "The contribution which this country is making to these outcomes is not merely minimal, it's non-existent. Everything that we do is completely blotted out by what much larger countries are doing to maintain their own power." "If you want to live in a country where nobody can afford to heat their house... if you want lots of people to lose their jobs because there's no energy, if you want to be cold all the time... then carry on believing that the demand to go for Net Zero is intelligent and thoughtful."

Wide Awake Media

1,844,287 views • 2 years ago

President President of Zimbabwe & his govt need to be SERIOUS about electricity issues… Listening to Prof Hon Prof Mthuli Ncube explaining the “power cuts”, it’s clear he is OUT OF TOUCH & totally misinformed. Kariba CANNOT & SHOULD NOT be relied upon anymore… Smart people will take Kariba as a “BACK UP” not part of the base load… MOFED&IP, ZESA, etc should be talking about MASSIVELY RAMPING up power generation, not WAITING FOR KARIBA… With Solar Power being cheaper & cheaper, it’s smart to use Solar Power during the day & use the Kariba water at night… by doing so, Kariba will be a GIANT NATIONAL BATTERY. The current INSTALLED CAPACITY in Zim is PATHETICALLY LOW, too low to sustain any meaningful economic development. So, talking about Vision 2030 while not being serious about power generation clearly shows how out of touch the govt is. No country can develop with RELIABLE & CHEAP electricity, it won’t happen .

President President of Zimbabwe & his govt need to be SERIOUS about electricity issues… Listening to Prof Hon Prof Mthuli Ncube explaining the “power cuts”, it’s clear he is OUT OF TOUCH & totally misinformed. Kariba CANNOT & SHOULD NOT be relied upon anymore… Smart people will take Kariba as a “BACK UP” not part of the base load… MOFED&IP, ZESA, etc should be talking about MASSIVELY RAMPING up power generation, not WAITING FOR KARIBA… With Solar Power being cheaper & cheaper, it’s smart to use Solar Power during the day & use the Kariba water at night… by doing so, Kariba will be a GIANT NATIONAL BATTERY. The current INSTALLED CAPACITY in Zim is PATHETICALLY LOW, too low to sustain any meaningful economic development. So, talking about Vision 2030 while not being serious about power generation clearly shows how out of touch the govt is. No country can develop with RELIABLE & CHEAP electricity, it won’t happen .

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58,160 views • 1 year ago