Senator John Madigan is due to call for a total moratorium on all wind farm development while the rest of the world reached a record level of output, with wind now contributing 3% of the world’s electricity generation.
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Baillieu govt one year on: a ‘let ‘er rip’ approach to environment
The new Victorian government has systematically dismantled environmental protections and determinedly ignored its stewardship responsibilities to the environment, write Sandi Keane and David Donovan of Independent Australia.
Latest wind farm research is a load of hot air
The various organisations that are at the forefront of wind farm opposition recently published eight papers in a special edition of an allegedly peer-reviewed journal you could be excused from never having heard of.
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: The pure political pragmatism of the climate change debate
Crikey readers have their say.
The web of vested interests behind the anti-wind farm lobby
A network analysis of links between the principal voices involved in demonising wind farms in Australia has been circulating in recent weeks and reveals connections between some of the principal wind farm opponents.
Taking the wind out of Ted Baillieu’s clean energy credentials
Recently a series of reforms passed by the Baillieu government seriously diminished Victoria’s capacity to protect its natural environmental and respond to the transitional challenge of cleaner energy production, writes Tom Dreyfus.
Parkinson: why wind is cutting energy costs
The most common critique of wind energy, and renewables in general, in the mainstream media and anywhere the issue is discussed is that it is expensive, writes Giles Parkinson, of Climate Spectator.
A win for anti-wind farm campaigners in Victoria
The Victorian government has introduced new policies on wind farms, including the ability for households to veto wind turbines located within two kilometres of their homes, reports Larvatus Prodeo.
Windfarms will make your children hate school, apparently
The lobby group at the centre of promoting the idea that windfarms cause disease, the Waubra Foundation, last week moved its aggression needle up several notches by sending this melodramatic “Explicit Cautionary Notice” to Australia’s wind energy companies and putting them on notice.
Energy price increases: hiding behind treasury’s Pollyanna forecasts
What are the facts on energy price increases and what has caused the increases to date? Alan Moran, director, deregulation, at the Institute of Public Affairs, offers some answers.
The wind beneath Google’s wings
Example #82732 of how Google is taking over the world: it’s now invested in wind farms. Specifically, a wind farm in the US with a projected capacity of 6,000 megawatts. But why is a search engine giant getting into the wind energy game?
NZ to build the largest wind farm in the southern hemisphere
Two New Zealand energy companies have signed an agreement to construct a wind farm intended to power more than 220,000 homes and generate the equivalent of removing more than 400,000 cars off the road. And the bill? A measly $1 billion.
Political snippets: Bob Hawke says “cheese” with some smiling former assassins
A happy snap of former PM Bob Hawke surrounded by the folks who ousted him from office shows time heals all wounds, the aesthetic costs of wind turbines, no outliers in the Crikey Election Indicator, and a thumbs up for the new Oz design.
The Italian Mafia goes green
In Australia, the Mafia (such as it is) tend to focus on drugs and armed robbery, but in Italy, they’ve turned their attentions elsewhere: windfarms.
