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safety record for the oil and gas industry is why insurance companies are moving away from it. nothing is ever as safe as the marketing and PR department says it is

the news is always

gas powered plants are way cheaper to build and operate, if china wants to pollute their agricultural soils with the ash from our coal they are welcome to it. Most of the chinese power plants are going bust now that China is moving away from increasing steel production. I read in one of the financial papers that 40% of them are running at a loss and are slated to close in the next decade.

he's been sacked over his "research" hasn't he, uni's have pretty clear standards for dismissal?

gas is the energy source of choice, pipelines are cheaper than railways

he's unemployable now isn't he? because he got caught cooking the numbers in his research. no credible university in australia will hire him. Uni tarred Professor Peter Ridd, of James Cook University, is a hot favourite on the climate denial/sceptic circuit, with his theory that scientists have it all wrong about the Great Barrier Reef, which apparently is in rude health. His employers at the university are not fans of this theory or his contribution to the Institute for Paid Advocacy book Climate Change: The Facts 2017. They have sought to discipline Professor Ridd, who says his academic freedom is under attack. He has filed a claim against the uni in the Federal Circuit Court and launched an appeal on GoFundMe, where he has raised about $95,000 towards his litigation. Naturally, the IPA and The Parrot are right behind him. Among the donors to his campaign we find the names Keith Windschuttle, tossing in $500, and Professor Chris Cocklin, with a hefty $10 donation. Coincidentally, there is a Professor Cocklin at James Cook University, as senior deputy vice-chancellor. There’s also the name Bryant Macfie, who has provided support to the tune of $2000. Macfie is a Perth doctor who donated $350,000 to the University of Queensland for “climate research” on topics selected in collaboration with the IPA. That is the same university that provides a course called “Making Sense of Climate Denial”, where you can learn how to counter arguments advanced by people such as the king of sweepovers, Morrie Newman. Anyway, in the same year he made the donation Macfie gave a big speech in which he made the interesting point that “the crucifix has been replaced by the wind turbine”.

The greens aren't in power, that pain you feel in your chest is from the liberal party, the liberal party love the law and order platform and selling off airports to their mates to build shopping centres

Australian governments bet everything on coal, still betting on coal. the government tried to tax coal and Turnbull and Rudd got rolled by the politicians paid for by coal. Coal is also 87% foreign owned

virtue signalling is just something the media created, lack of competition for insurance on coal projects will drive up the cost of coal. there are a ton of businesses, including your super fund, dumping coal and getting into the wind, water and solar.

Allianz to stop selling insurance to coal companies Europe’s biggest insurer aims to withdraw completely from sector by 2040 https://www.ft.com/content/a23a6c3c-4eec-11e8-9471-a083af05aea7

flip side they'll make a great navigational aid

the subsidies for renewables is always spent in the communities where the wind and solar farms are built. its a win win for regional australia, bringing jobs and infrastructure to new areas

Nation's biggest wind farm could be built between Geelong and Ballarat By Adam Carey 4 May 2018 — 5:00pm The biggest wind farm in the southern hemisphere will be built about 130 kilometres west of Melbourne, powering an estimated half a million homes a year by 2025, if the Andrews government gives the project the green light. The proposed wind farm would sprawl across 167 square kilometres of farmland near the small town of Rokewood in south-west Victoria, about 40 kilometres south of Ballarat. It would have 228 wind turbines, each 230 metres tall at their highest point. By way of comparison, just four skyscrapers in Melbourne are taller. The largest operating wind farm in Victoria, at Macarthur, has 140 turbines that are up to 140 metres high. According to planning documents published on Friday, the wind farm would produce up to 3500 gigawatt-hours of energy a year – equal to the average annual energy consumption of at least 450,000 homes. The local Coalition MP attacked the project as a wasteful folly that would do little to secure Victoria's energy supply. Its proponents, the German-backed, Gisborne-based company West Wind Energy, argue the project will help to reduce electricity prices and help Victoria and Australia meet their greenhouse gas reduction targets. Macarthur wind farm in western Victoria. The Andrews government has set a target of zero net emissions by 2050. It will cost an estimated $1.7 billion to build. Dubbed the Golden Plains Wind Farm, it will have an energy generation capacity of between 800 and 1000 megawatts, slightly more than half the capacity of the shuttered Hazelwood coal-fired power plant. Add to shortlist The project has been in development since 2006, but still requires planning approval from the Andrews government. A planning panel will consider the proposal at a hearing due to begin on July 30. West Wind Energy hopes to begin construction next year. The wind farm would begin to operate by 2021 and be in full flight by 2025, the planning documents show. It would be decommissioned and pulled down some time after 2050. According to West Wind Energy, the project will be a major contributor of renewable energy in Victoria, helping the state to achieve its 40 per cent renewable energy target by 2025 and its zero net emissions target by 2050. “The project will help Australia meet its international commitments to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to 26-28 per cent on 2005 levels, while also protecting the land for continued agricultural use,” the company said. The 39 landowners on whose properties the turbines will be built will be given lease payments, the documents say, without stating how much. Local state Liberal MP Richard Riordan said the project was an ideologically driven folly that would scar the landscape and create intermittent energy supply. “If this ideological government gets its way it’ll cover my entire electorate in Rialto-sized concrete pylons that would work 20 to 30 per cent of the time,” Mr Riordan said. He said his rural electorate of Polwarth already had among the highest concentration of wind turbines in Australia, but residents had been given minimal opportunity to have their say. “If these turbines are so harmless and so pretty to look at, why not put them up in Port Phillip Bay along the Esplanade, or in open spaces in Fitzroy and Collingwood,” Mr Riordan said. Planning Minister Richard Wynne ruled last year that an environment effects statement was required, because of the project's potential impact on native plants and animals. Mr Wynne said Victoria's renewable energy targets were ambitious but achievable. "We are in the business of supporting appropriate clean energy projects because they create jobs for regional and rural Victorians," Mr Wynne said. "Not only do these projects create hundreds of construction jobs, they provide big boosts for other businesses all over the region."

the Jones defamation case continues, looks like Joyce has thrown Jones under the bus here

Brown coal is like burning dirt, your power plant is continuously running at half speed to clean all the muck out of your furnaces and chimney Privatisation, once the network is in private hands the cost of electricity is no longer set by the state, its set by market forces, private owners set the price at what they think the market can bare, push the price up until people start using less, which is what is happening now.

we aren't running of power, if anything we have an excess of power generation capability which is driving out high cost producers, like those that rely on coal. Power producers are also moving to gas because its cheap to ship gas with a pipeline, versus most of the coal plants were built next to coal mines that are now exhausted, you need to build a railway to keep an older coal fired plant going. no one wants to build a railway with only has one customer, who's being squeezed out of business

you get rid of one toxic radio presenter and the audience will find another one on another channel. I don't think radio's audience is that large anymore, I remember we tried advertising on the local channel which also ran his show and we got a very poor response compared to online advertising.

that new solar farm inland from townsville has 413,000 solar panels, there will never be a coal fired power plant in northern QLD Are you a prophet? Do you have special insights? Did these insights occur a few months before you lost your job?

The airport is located on land in the former Jondaryan shire council, of which John Wagner was a councillor that presided over the council amalgamation. His experience as a businessman involved in the construction industry and as a former local politician would have given him an intimate knowledge of the council workings. The judge would be made aware of this in his briefing. Everyone knows that talk back radio is theatre, anyone listening to Jones would know he isn't credible authority on anything.

you seem unstable I was merely enquiring whether or not you might have suffered from some short term emotional stress because your behaviour seems to indicate your lack of balance.

on a recent episode of engine masters they showed how too much oil not only robs engine of horsepower it drops oil pressure at mid range speeds.

So what happened, did you lose your job?

The judge is saying you can't win this, taking it too court is a waste of time and money. Have a look at how the case against Alan Jones is going, the Wagners are demanding $4.8M without being able to show any damages.

so what happened Binghi? did you lose your job

I think its time to accept Binghi has some sort of emotional issue