Pollie Watch: MP urged to rethink anti-wind protest
Sutherland Climate Action Network has urged Federal MP for Hughes Craig Kelly to “rethink” his involvement in an upcoming anti-wind farm rally in Canberra. Mr Kelly has agreed to speak at the Wind Power Fraud Rally on June 18 organised by a group calling itself Stop These Things. Rally organisers claim wind power is a […]
Rogue Liberals out-of-step with strong public support for Renewable Energy Target, wind farms
June 3, 2013
by Leigh Ewbank
Polling released today shows rogue Liberals who are targeting wind energy and the Renewable Energy target are out-of-touch with the community’s views on renewable energy. New polling by Essential Research shows 73 percent of Australians support the Renewable Energy Target. A substantial 40 percent of which think the Renewable Energy Target is not high enough. […]
Turbulent times ahead for renewables
June 14, 2013
by odilegotts
First published on New Matilda by Ben Eltham, 13/06/2013. Coalition ideologues are considering crippling regulations for wind farms and want to abolish the Renewable Energy Target. Clean energy will struggle under Abbott, writes Ben Eltham. Just how anti-renewable energy is the Coalition? That’s the question the multi-billion dollar Australian wind industry is asking this week, […]
The wind doesn’t blow all the time. Why doesn’t this make wind power ineffective?
June 11, 2013
by Leigh Ewbank
Published by Barnard on Wind. View the original article. A common refrain by people who question wind power as an effective part of energy grids is that it doesn’t produce the same amount of power all of the time. “On average, wind turbines are about 20% to 25% efficient”– Canadian Nuclear Association “annual outputs of […]
A night under the Waterloo Wind Farm turbines
June 7, 2013
by Dave Clarke
On the night of May 28, Mark Parnell (Greens MP for SA), Daniel Spencer, Leonora Herweijer and I (the latter three all being participants in the Walk for Solar Power – Port Augusta to Adelaide, September 2012) slept under the turbines at Waterloo wind farm. Mark had a meeting with some people who objected to […]
June 4, 2013
by Leigh Ewbank
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