Power to the People

2011-03-03T18:04:00.000+10:00

TELLING FAIRYTALES.

What’s that old saying we used.--‘Telling Fairy Tales’. Another one----‘Out of the mouths of babes.’ And that’s what we got from Julia Gillard about Tony Abbott—‘Telling Fairy Tales’.

How about another one we know-----‘The pot calling the kettle black.’

If ever it applied to anyone it certainly applies to Gillard, Rudd, Garrett, Wong and their cohorts.

For years they have lied and deceived the Australian public, who were naive enough to believe all their endless lies. Trusting a government that was built on deception and ‘Fairy Tales’.

Where do you start?

Perhaps with the so called Global Warming lies or the new name ‘Climate Change,’ because they fell on their face over global warming; now it is completely disproven.

Even though they were well aware of the I.P.C.C.s deception and from the American and European experiences, that Global warming and Renewable energy was the biggest scam and failure this world has seen or ever will see, they continued to tell ‘Fairy tales’ about Thermal power generation and the capabilities of renewable energy sources. i.e. Wind generators and solar power generation farms.

Even with thirty one years of proven results that there is no such thing as manmade global warming or the fact of spending billions of dollars to building thousands of totally unreliable and very expensive wind generators and solar farms have achieved absolutely ZERO.

Not ONE nation has reduced its thermal generation output and in fact they have continued to increase at the normal growth rate.

After thirty one years not ONE of their ‘fairytale’ predictions has eventuated.

Yet knowing this the Rudd/ Gillard Government still tell ‘Fairy Tales’ about thermal power station emissions and the so called pollution from cooling towers which is pure condensation.

They have spent billions of dollars on home insulation programme, domestic solar power generation, solar hot water, wind generators and solar array farms and the whole intention was to reduce thermal power generation. Thus reduce the CO2 output from the chimneys.

The final achievement in carbon dioxide reduction after all of these is NOTHING.

Power generation demand continues to grow at 4% per year and over 85% of this is thermal power which is where the growth rate is. The percentage increase in renewable energy is miniscule in relation to the overall power generation figures.

Because of their desperate efforts to retain the green vote they continue to pander to their ridiculous demands. Wasting billions of dollars ‘chasing butterflies' and telling ‘fairy tales’ and worse still deliberately ‘telling porkies’ to the Australian people.

If anyone doubts that, have a look at the past few weeks when a member elected by the people of this country to the position of prime minister was ‘assassinated’ by a Gillard and here gang because his ratings had fallen.

They went into panic mode in a desperate bid to stay in power.

Not since Roman times when Caesar was assassinated on the steps of the Senate has there been such a devious and sadistic attack, without the slightest compunction or consideration for their former leader.

Yet all they are doing is ‘moving the deckchairs around on the Titanic’.

What were some of those fairytales Gillard recently told;

A. I’m more likely to go to Mars than to be Prime Minister.

B. I’m more likely to sail round the world than to be Prime Minister.

C. I’m more likely to play for the Carlton football club than to be Prime Minister.

D. I have no ambition for the leadership I’m happy where I am.

The best ‘Fairytale’ was the latest one from the mining super profit tax agreement that the government’s resource rent tax regime only reduced the revenue by $1.5 billion.

What she didn’t say was that commodity price forecasts were revised between the two taxes to make it look less. -----Another ‘Fairy Tale’.

‘At the end of the day’ ‘it is not a level playing field and the goal posts have been moved.’

This government has wasted billions of dollars on crazy schemes like the ‘clean coal’ technology where on one ‘clean coal’ experimental’ power station alone they spent fourteen hundred million dollars and it was an admitted failure.

Also they have spent five hundred million on a thirty megawatt power station out west that is supposed to pump the CO2 underground. It uses sixteen of the thirty megawatts to do it. i.e. 14 megawatt output. Which is ’beyond a joke.’

When is all this madness going to stop and they get back to some form of reality and spend it on our major infrastructures where is should be spent. Roads, water, dams, health, hospitals, etc.

The great farce of the home insulation program that achieved absolutely nothing, cost four lives and spent thousands of millions of dollars. Now they have to undo a major part of it.

Over that alone the government and Garrett should be ‘Hung out To Dry'

Even after all of this they are planning to build many useless wind generators costing billions of dollars throughout Australia even though they know it is a waste of time and your money.

All these decision were made with the input and approval of Ms Gillard and her associates. Now Ms Gillard; says ‘It wasn't me; I didn't do it.' It was Kevin Rudd. He made those decisions on his own.’

And they expect us to believe it. Another ‘Fairytale. They must think the Australian public are fools.

‘Fair suck of the sauce bottle’.

If it goes ‘pear-shaped, it is no good ‘throwing our toys out of the pram or our teddy in the corner.’ But that’s exactly what they did.

If they get back after the next election they will;

a. Reintroduce the ‘global warming’ scam.

b. Reintroduce the ridiculous carbon credit scheme.

c. Continue to build more useless wind generators and solar array farms.

d. Try again to force the E.T.S. ‘down our throats'.

If the Australian economy was compared to a house. That house would be vandalized, wrecked and garbage strewn everywhere.!!!

Yet when the Howard Government left it was in pristine condition.

If this government gets back into power the Australian public will not get another chance.

Next time will be too late and the great country we once knew will be gone forever.
Handed over to extreme greenies and extreme muslims who want to remove our democratic way of life and replace with the horrendous Sharia law.

This is the Australia we love. Without doubt the finest country in the world –That our parents and grandparents fought for.-Lets keep it that way.

Don’t let their efforts be in vain.

2011-03-03T17:36:00.000+10:00

The Gillard/ Brown Government begins the destruction of our economy.

When Bob Brown the leader of the so called ‘green’ movement stood alongside Julia Gillard on the steps of Paliament House announcing to the media the introduction of the Carbon Credit Tax, it was amazing how he made her mouth move without putting his hand up her back and operating her it like the usual dummy.

Previously I said that she had sold her soul to the devil when she got in bed with Bob Brown and his communist associates. Now that is proving to be very true. She is in his trap and cannot escape.

The proof is the fact that she lied when she said there would be no Carbon tax ( for something that is non existent i.e. manmade global warming.) and then without the slightest hesistation announced there will be a carbon tax whilst saying she never lied. But she will buy off the people that voted for them by giving them a concession whilst destroying our industry and economy.

The statement it will only cause an increase of 5% is an absolute lie. Everything uses electricity and everyone of those products or services will increase substantially from the ‘flowon’ effect.

The Electricity power Generation Industry is an absolute essential part of our country and has been the main player in making Australia what it is today. Without it the country would be dead. Nothing . No water, no power, no computers, very little food. Industry and commerce would grind to a complete halt. And these idealistic fools want to close it down whilst trying to introduce so called renewable energy in the form of wind and solar power generation, which as a main power source has proven to be a repeatedly total failure all over the world. Yet these fools still insist on ‘going forward’ with their crazy schemes.

The suggestion that this carbon tax will create 31000 jobs is ludicrous, espescially when you consider the amount of people who will be made redundant because industry cannot afford them.

The insulation programme was a failure. The clean coal plant were a failure. The Underground CO2 storage was failure. The ridiculous light bulb fiasco was a failure. Solar panels on roofs are a failure as far as the main grid system is concerned. Everything this Government touches is a disaster.

It would be wonderful to have solar power on the roof, water tanks out the back.and be independent.This is possible on an individual house basis but does nothing for the main power generation system.

The excess from these panels would equate, literally, to less than a small teaspoon in a 200 litre drum and are an irritation to those operating the power generation system.

Julia Gillard wants to introduce a carbon tax for one reason- to claw back the money her and her cronies have wasted on their crazy schemes. Bob Brown wants it because he knows it will destroy our economy.

It has nothing to do with carbon dioxide, an inert harmless gas, which consist only .38% or 380 parts per million in our armosphere. To do the impossible and reduce our emmissions by 20% would make a difference of .00000016%. Yet Gillard and her cronies, controlled by Brown, still try to use the excuse of a ‘carbon tax’.

Julia Gillard and the labor party got back into government by lies and deceit and should be made accountable by calling another election without the interference of the useless ‘independents’ who caused this problem in the first place. Ironically if they had to face re election they would be thrown out on their ears.

The only one with any sense of honesty was Bob Katter.

Julia Gillard should also be charged with fraud and deception and answer a court of law. They are NOT are majority elected government and should NOT be there to destroy this great country.

Be warned if Brown and Gillard continue down this path they will destroy our economy and our way of life.

It is now up to you, the reader, to stop them or pay a very heavy penalty in the future.

Terence .L. Cardwell.

2010-12-28T18:26:00.002+10:00

DEATH’S FOR CO2 REDUCTION.

One of the worse things we can read in the newspapers is of another car crash resulting in the death of some or all of the occupants.

Worse still, quite often they are young people, who lives have been snatched away in a split second because they made one minor but fatal error. The people of our future.

It is irrelevant whether they were right or wrong –they are still dead.

For the parents and relatives the terrible loss is a heartache and agony that is almost unbearable

that would endure for a long time.

The police, emergency services officers, reporters and journalists have to attend these crashes and I cannot understand how they are not scarred for life with the horror they often have to witness.

The police are continually frustrated trying their best to stop the carnage but can only do so much.

The state and federal governments response to this is NOT to improve the roads- just reduce the speed limit--- problem solved----ridiculous.

Cars, buses, caravans and trucks passing each other at differential speeds of over 200 K.M.H. with only as little as 25c.m. to 50c.m. between them is a scary scenario.

Single lane roads where we have to wait for long periods of time before a driver can even overtake a slower vehicle, creates frustration and impatience and cause drivers to take risks they should not take.

Yet we blindly continue to accept this even though all this carnage can be prevented by the simple use of common sense and logic.
The money that was totally wasted on the crazy, useless roofing insulation programme, the failed clean coal technology and CO2 underground projects, all failures, just to satisfy the insanity of the Greens demands, by the labour party, of $4,500,000,000 plus the removal and correcting the complete foul up of the insulation scheme, another $1,000,000,000.

All this money could have built a separated multi lane expressways from Cairns to Melbourne and have money left over to build dams and hospitals that function correctly.

Had those expressways been built over 85% of those deaths would not have occurred.

The police, emergency service and journalists would not be forced to face the horror of smashed bodies and havoc left behind.

Yet the Australian voters quickly forget the carnage that the greens have created and the unbelievable waste of so much money just to suit a crazy, now disproven idea, about global warming or climate change as they now prefer to call it.

They with their total insanity were also responsible for the death of 173 people, destruction of over 230 homes and the displacement of over 7000 people in the Victorian bushfires.

Australia and its people were looking after our climate long before the greens came along and will do so long after they have gone. The have done nothing to this country except to create massive wastes of money and devastation of homes and industry.

We desperately need to replace the goat track called the Bruce Highway and make it, and all major interconnecting city highways, into expressways. Build more dams and pipe the rivers before it is too late.

This cannot be done when this government is wasting so much money on crazy schemes.

They have on order a huge amount of wind generators to build massive wind farms. Yet throughout the world they have repeatedly proven to be a failure.

A large cost to maintain and operate with substantial failures all over the world.

California went bankrupt trying to use them and after 31 years they still only have 2.3% renewable energy. Yet thermal power continues to grow.

Spain has gone bankrupt, imports power, and has a 20% unemployment, thanks to their involvement with renewable energy.

Germany has also moved away from renewable energy and returned to thermal and nuclear power.

Denmark is yet to reduce one gram of CO2 output with endless windmill failures.

Yet this government, living in their little cocoon, still insist on wasting your money on useless, totally unreliable and inconsistent wind generators and solar farms.

If the greens get control of the Australian senate they will close down power stations, mines, many industries and try to achieve the absolute IMPOSSIBILITY of 100% renewable energy. Australia will suffer dire consequences with an economy and industry in tatters within three years.

Recession will be a picnic compared to the depression we will slide into.

Terence Cardwell

2010-09-02T15:58:00.000+10:00

THE POISONED CHALICE.

TO ALL THE GREEN VOTERS.

Australians are fortunate that they can freely choose whoever they wish to support them in the parliament and to govern this once great country.

This choice is usually made on the basis that the voter has studied his party’s choice and is WELL AWARE of their policies and what that party stands for.

But I find it hard to believe that the people who voted for the Greens are aware of all their policies.

So why did you vote for the Greens ?

Was it as one voter said ‘I thought they were nice people.’

Another said it was ‘because they care about the environment.’ As if no one else does.!!!!

Perhaps you were disenchanted by the major parties and thought you would give your vote to the greens instead, without even knowing their policies or how dangerous they are.

I find it impossible to believe that anyone in their right mind would vote for the Greens if they knew the truth. Instead of all the lies they have told and policies that would put the fear into the devil.

Did you know they want to introduce death duties.

That horrible archaic tax from the past that has caused an overwhelming amount of misery and grief to so many families. Rich and poor, it makes no difference. Everything is frozen till the tax man gets his share.

In the mean time families are torn apart.

They want to allow the boat people and other so called ‘environmental refugees’ free access to Australia without any limitations or health and security checks within two weeks of arrival.

Allowing them to live freely in our country, and worse to give them financial aid and housing.

The flood of millions from Asia and everywhere else would totally devastate our country and terrorists would be free to attack us from within the country , tearing us apart from the inside.

They want to increase taxes on large and small businesses by another 5%. As if small businesses are not already hanging on by their fingertips desperately trying to survive through a global financial crisis and the painfully slow recovery. This could be a possible death blow to many small businesses.

They will demand farmers "remove as far as possible" all genetically modified crops, which includes cotton worth thirteen hundred million dollars a year. ($1.3 billion) a year.

They want to end "the mining and export of uranium", worth nine hundred thousand million dollars ( $900 billion) a year.

They want to introduce a carbon tax on everything destroying whatever businesses that survive their other holocausts and force the cost of electricity (if we still have any) and other products through the roof.

They intend to lift foreign aid to a minimum of 0.7 per cent of GDP, which means an instant rise in handouts to their fanatics overseas of four thousand million dollars ($4 billion) a year. This is partly due to the fact that their Copenhagen handout of seven thousand million dollars a year, thankfully failed, and this is another way of getting that money

They want to close down all coal mines in Australia and wipe out an industry that brings to the Australian people over sixty four thousand million dollars ($64billion) a year to help pay for our hospitals, road, schools, family and child care, pensions, national defence, etc. etc.

Not only that but it would completely alienate our trade relationship with China, the backbone of our export economy. Without China purchasing our resources our economy would be in total collapse and so would this country.

They want to close down all coal fired power stations and replace them with ‘Renewable energy”. Which might be O.K. if it was at all feasible but it is TOTALLY IMPOSSIBLE to even achieve 5% renewable energy .Let alone 100% renewable energy.

It has been tried over the last thirty years or more in many countries with the resultant abject failure.

California has gone bankrupt trying with over 14000 wind generator failures and a return to thermal power generation. The total ‘renewable energy in California after 31 years is 2.3% and falling.

Spain is also bankrupt because of their renewable energy fiasco and are importing power. The cost of which has doubled and they now have an unemployment rate of over 20%.

Germany has over 7500 wind generators of which 2500 failed last year and they have returned to Thermal power which saved them last winter from total collapse.

With Denmark’s 5000 wind generators of which 2000 failed last year they are yet to reduce so called ‘CO2 emissions.’ By one gram and like the other countries rely on thermal power generation for backup.

The resultant failures in various countries are always the same from many countries but the Greens flatly refuse to see the failures because they want to bring Australia to its knees and under their communist globalisation control.

They have NO interest in our well being, only in their communist ideologies and are determined to destroy our economy.

Under that very thin cover of green is a very bright red of the communist, lead by the fanatical Bob Brown, who is a liar and one of the worst perpetrators of this world scam and he wants total control.

If the extremists called ‘greens’ should bring their policies to fruition it will destroy our economy and our country.

To the point it could bring about an extremely violent reaction from the Australian people when they finally realise that the Greens are deliberately trying to tear our country apart.

By that time it could be too late. The only consolation would be that every Green would pay severely for their treachery.

Now that you have read their policies, and this is not all of them. Are you still proud you voted for the greens. Will you stand up and accept the blame when this country is devastated for this communist agenda.

Or will you do the right thing by your country and help get rid of these destructive vandals and traitors.

When you voted for the greens you were given a Poison Chalice that we may never recover from.

Remember that 173 people were burnt to death because of ‘greens’ policies forced on councils who were too weak to deny them.

Also the destruction of over 300 homes and the displacement of over 7000 people.

The Greens have NOT been responsible for even one environmental improvement. They are a farce and liars.

If Australia could reduce its total CO2 emissions (a harmless gas essential to all life) by 20% as they want to, it would make a difference of .00000016% or 16 parts per ten millionth to the increase of CO2 in air per year. NOT even measurable.

Following are two similar reports and I urge you to read them and realise this is not some ‘Wild story. Our future is now in your hands. You are the ones who MUST REJECT the greens and do everything to revoke your vote and stop the communist greens before it is too late.

Terence Cardwell

Email;terrycar@iinet.net.au

You'll be voting to end "the mining and export of uranium", worth $900 billion a year.

You'll be demanding farmers "remove as far as possible" all GM crops, which includes cotton worth about $1.3 billion a year.

You will be voting to close down many other industries, including export of woodchips from old-growth forests, certain kinds of fishing, oil and mineral exploration in wildernesses, and new coal mines.

You'll even be voting to close the Lucas Heights nuclear facility, even though it actually produces treatments for cancer.

In fact, you'll be voting for policies deliberately intended to make us poorer. Less industrialised. Or as the Greens' policy puts it, for a "reduction of Australia's use of natural resources to a level that is sustainable and socially just".

Maybe you think it won't matter if a few industries get shut. Maybe you really are that stupid. But you haven't heard the rest of the Greens' policies yet, have you?

You see, the Greens also plan to shut coal power stations that produce 80 per cent of our electricity. They not only "oppose the establishment of new coal-fired power stations" - claiming they make the planet dangerously hot - but intend to ban new coal supplies for those we already have. And they'll hit power stations with a new tax to make electricity too expensive for you.

Do you have any idea how many businesses would be driven broke by this Green frolic? How many hundreds of thousands of jobs would be lost?

If you think the Greens must have alternative power sources in mind, you're dreaming.
The Greens want to keep Labour’s ban on nuclear power. They even want to scrap government-funded research into carbon capture.

So consider. If the Greens get their way we'll have huge industries banned, businesses driven broke and power prices driven through the roof, with not enough electricity for what industries will be left.

So, with our income slashed to ribbons, what do the Greens propose? Not deep cuts in every government program but a spending spree to make Kevin Rudd seem a miser.
It's free money for everyone. If you vote for the Greens, you're voting for an extra week of holidays for all, "mandated shorter standard working hours", more pay for women workers, higher pay for casuals and better weekly benefits to students and artists.

More pay for less work, at the mere stroke of a Green pen. Isn't that a darling way to reorganise the economy? What could possibly go wrong?

They promise to lift foreign aid to "a minimum of 0.7 per cent of GDP", which means an instant rise in handouts of $4 billion a year.

Another $2 billion a year will go to scrap tertiary fees and forgiving all HECs debts.
The Greens lazily assume that the bill will be covered by hiking corporate taxes, hitting the richer 5 per cent of Australians with wealth taxes, and slugging air travellers. Show us your costings, Bob.

I'd be amazed if after a year of two of this that anyone would want to come to a country which by then would be a smoking hole in the ground.

Yet the Greens plan to do their best to attract more people to their new nation of freeloaders. Any "asylum seeker" making it here by boat would be freed into the community within 14 days, security checks permitting, and rewarded with benefits, medical services and school for children. These goodies will be offered to "environmental refugees", too.

A new, militant industrial agenda is also buried in this New Age madness, signalling the arrival in Brown's party of "watermelon Greens" - green outside and red inside.

These, like NSW candidate Lee Rhiannon, seem Green more of convenience than faith, using this doctors' wives party to smuggle in the kind of hard-Left politics that would scare voters if they saw it coming under a hammer and sickle.

This is what a vote for the Greens really means. And it's this party of vandals, tribalists and closet totalitarians that shameless Labour now helps to such threatening influence.. (Ends).

Green Tasmanian Senator Christine Milne recently stated on an ABC 7.30 Report: “We want to see a carbon price as quickly as possible because we want transformation of the whole economy and society”.

The Greens' policies would destroy the Australian economy

Gerard Jackson
BrookesNews.Com
Monday 16 August 2010

Senator Bob Brown has emerged as a destructive parasite. A green fanatic living at the public trough whose economic wish list would destroy the Australian standard of living, which is exactly what it is intended to do. Not only has the media overlooked just how elitist and loony Brown's green economics really are so have our rightwing.

In a letter to The Australian (27 June 1991) he revealed his appalling economic illiteracy by defining logging and mining as "resource robbery". According to this brilliant economic theorist and economic

historian Tasmania is an example of a "post-industrial" society (despite the fact that the state had never been industrialized) because the economy "is not based on dinosaur industries like pulp mills, zinc mills and aluminium mills." (Italics added.)

It completely escaped the attention of this genius that without pulp mills there would be no paper, and certainly no newspapers to promote his lunacy, The same man who uses numerous electrical appliances, drives a car, travels by train, ship and plane, uses computers and cell phones is the same man who seriously asserts that — what he sneeringly calls — the "extraction industries" that supply the raw materials for these devices can be shut down without lowing wages and raising the unemployment rate.

Critics rightly point out the massive cost in terms of lost export earnings if Brown's lunatic policies were implemented. But they miss a vital point: these industries are at the very highest stage of the capital structure. This means closing them down would also close down manufacturing because their products are vital inputs for the lower stages of production that produce capital goods, intermediate goods and consumer goods? (Brown's ludicrous attitude towards the primary sector reminds me of Ralph Nader's insane idea that America's petrochemical industry "might need to be abolished.")

Closing down these industries makes as much economic sense as arguing that we don't need agriculture chewing up the environment because we have plenty of supermarkets to provide us with food. Of course, closing down mining means shutting down the export trade to China.

That Beijing might consider this a form of green economic warfare has evidently not occurred to Brown. China is not going to allow anyone or any ideology to sabotage its economic development. As Otto Maller said: "If soldiers are not to cross international boundaries, goods must do so". Anyone who ignores the international ramifications of the greens' proposals is not fit to be in politics.

Nothing illustrates Brown's green fanaticism more than his mad proposal to shut down the coal-fuelled power stations that produce 80 per cent of our electricity. He wants to tax these power stations out of existence and put a permanent ban on them.

So where will the electricity come from? According to Brown and his fellow fanatics solar and wind will easily fill the gap.

It seems that Brown goes along with Nader's asinine opinion that "the only reason why solar energy has not yet been developed is that the oil companies don't own the sun". The real reason is that these phony alternatives are horrendously inefficient. They face insurmountable economic and natural obstacles. Even if they were 100 per cent technically efficient they would still be incapable of overcoming their massive economic and technical shortcomings. The problem is that solar power is extremely dilute and terribly irregular. This is why even if it operated at 100 per cent efficiency it still could not compete because the material and land requirements of solar plants dwarf those of centralised power stations, making the difference in costs between the two a staggering amount*.

(The Government's 'alternative energy' policies will be a disaster for the economy)

(Brown's support of solar energy also reveals his hypocrisy. Although he considers power stations to be a blot on the landscape he thinks consuming hundreds of square miles of land to generate the same amount of electricity that a power station generates on a few acres is a good environmental policy. He also believes that "urban sprawl" — what used to be called urban development — should be halted and the little people forced to accept crowded housing conditions. So according to this oily sanctimonious hypocrite new urban estates are bad but covering the land with solar collectors is absolutely marvellous.)

It is an inescapable fact that the very nature of solar technology makes economies of scale impossible because where power stations enjoy indivisibilities that give them economies of scale (average costs fall as output increases) solar and wind complexes suffer terrible diseconomies of scale because they have no indivisibilities, meaning that as they expand the average cost of production rises. The result will be a massive and unsustainable rise in energy prices. (Friends of the CSI smeared me as a "technological pessimist" for pointing out the preceding facts.) A more savage and calculated attack on the standard of living would be difficult to conceive.

Let us recall that even though President Obama publicly admitted that moving over to solar and wind would cause "electricity prices to rocket" (explode is more like it) Brown still insists on lying through his teeth about the devastating effect his energy policy would have on electricity prices and hence the Australian economy. In reference to Tasmania he argues "that it is in the green-backed arena of … labour intensive … small businesses that Tasmania's future job creation lies."

Judging by other comments he has made this view must also extend to the rest of the country. But any honest assessment of his policy leads to the inexorable conclusion that the economy would be shattered and the standard of living reduced to an abject level. And Bob Brown has the gall to assert that he wants to see "the elimination of poverty and an end to the exploitation of children and other vulnerable people."

It has to be understood that real wages are determined by the ratio of capital-land to labour. The higher the ratio the higher will be the standard of living. (By land the economists is referring to its output.) Therefore, as an economy becomes more capital intensive real wages will continue to rise. Brown's policies would virtually make the land inaccessible for development while simultaneously destroying most of the country's capital structure. The effect would be a severe drop in the ratio of capital-land to labour which would drive down real wage rates. In other words, Brown's policies are designed to turn Australia into a labour intensive economy, a fact that he has already admitted.

Other greens have readily conceded that this is their real goal. In their utopia industry will be small-scale and labour-intensive; water, wind and solar power will replace central power generation; communities will be small, largely ,self-sufficient and the large-scale division of labour will be a thing of the past. But our ancestors once lived in such an 'idyllic society' — it was called the Dark Ages where poverty was wretched and life for the masses was "...poor, nasty brutish and short." It was economic growth that lifted the Western masses out of the misery and poverty of what was once their lot and gave them the highest living standards in history. Living standards vastly superior to that enjoyed by any medieval monarch or eastern despot. And now the greens want to destroy that progress.

Jeremy Rifkin, another green fanatic in the mould of Bob Brown, was open about the consequences of green economic policies for the standard of living, confessing that "production will center on goods required to maintain life." However, he did not say who would decide what these goods would be. (I bet Bob Brown could tell him.)

Ernest Callenbach's book Ecotopia was brutally honest about green aims to savagely lower living standards. In his environmental paradise the standard of living will have been massively cut and energy prices kept deliberately high. In case anyone should think that Callenbach's views are out of keeping with what passes for mainstream thinking in green intellectual circles, Ralph Nader, the white knight of the green movement, gave it his stamp of approval. So when Bob Brown tells you that he just wants a "reduction of Australia's use of natural resources to a level that is sustainable and socially just" try to cut through the weasel language and grasp what he really means.

There is no doubt in my mind that Brown is a dangerous fanatic and a callous liar with a vicious ideology that would cause absolute misery if not checked. He needs to be exposed and exposed now.

*The effects of a carbon tax on electricity prices has been calculated by adding the carbon tax per ton to the total costs of electricity generation. Instructive as this approach is it overlooks the vitally point important point that it is impossible for so-called green energy to replace centralised power generation. It is more than likely that the economy would implode before the coal-fuelled power stations could even be priced out of existence. Nevertheless, Christine Milne, Brown's fellow fanatic, proposes that a carbon tax be continually raised on these energy sources until they are forced into bankruptcy. She demanded this be the case by 2020. In effect, she is demanding that within 10 years 80 per cent of our electricity generating capacity must be destroyed.

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2010-06-05T18:23:00.000+10:00

CONGRATULATIONS TO KEVIN RUDD
AND TEAM FOR A JOB WELL DONE.

The people of Australia do not realise how difficult a job Kevin Rudd and his team have had to do. The great deal of expertise and ability required to achieved their aims is of the highest order and requires years of training and practice.

This latent talent began when Kevin. Rudd was only a boy and his would catch insects and slowly pull their wings off and then their legs until they were completely helpless.

This skill stood him in good stead when he became prime minister of Australia.

To tear something apart is one thing. To tear a country, its economy and infrastructure is quite another. That requires a team effort unparalleled in Australia history.

Especially when you start from so far behind. Having to begin with;

A. A massive economic surplus that John Howard so selfishly left behind.

B. Highest employment even seen in Australia’s history.

C. John Howard’s reluctance to get involved in crazy global warming hysteria and schemes.

D. A growing mining boom exceeding the most optimistic expectations bringing immense unexpected wealth in taxes and royalties to the government.

E. Excellent profits to the mines who distributed that wealth through high paid staff, equipment. Construction of infrastructure throughout country and research,

F. A large flow on of taxes through employees, large and small businesses benefiting from the boom.

G. Automotive, industrial and mining equipment plant that return huge sales tax returns.

H. A booming Australian economy that promises great things for the future.

To turn all this around would be very daunting and leave a lesser man bowed from the daunting task. But not Kevin and his team. They came up with the right ideas.

A. Allow the greenies to hijack the labour government even though they orchestrated the whole of the global warming scam.

B. Using the ‘global financial crisis’ as an excuse; Give away, for NO benefit, billions of dollars to waste on unnecessary products.

C. Put a idiot in charge of the environment (that left alone, would do a better job of looking after itself.) whose only skill was screaming and twitching as if having convulsions on a stage.

D. Latch on to the ‘Global Warming’ scam to help terrify the nation with falsified doomsday predictions from so called ‘expert’ research, enabling them to waste money on crazy hair brain schemes chasing butterflies.

E. Announce that CO2 is a pollutant and a poison when in truth it is essential part of our existence.

F. Spend billions of dollars on so called ‘Clean coal technology’ and Power stations that use half their generated power to ‘pump’ CO2 underground. Both are miserable failures.

G. ‘Hot rocks’ schemes, where they can pump it down. But they can’t get it back up. Another failure.

H. ‘Insulate every homes’ programme that had ZERO effect on power consumption and ended up a total disaster, Wasting billions of dollars to put it in and more billions to take it out again.
Also putting homes and lives at risk after killing four people..

I. Announce that Australia’s power generation will be 20% renewable energy, even though knowing that it was IMPOSSIBLE and spend more billions of dollars on Wind generators and solar arrays that have already proven in the USA and Europe to be a miserable, expensive failure.

J. When all the money has gone and the country is in massive deficit the aim has almost been achieved-- except the country is still making money.

A REAL problem so how do they stop that.

After much thought they came up with the answer.

Remove the backbone of Australia and kill the goose that lays the golden eggs.

It takes a very special stupidity skill to be able to do that.

Answer; Pure genius!!! Tax the miners so heavy they want to leave.

Create the Emissions Trading Scheme the E T S.-- Simple.

The public woke up to the plan and stopped it. DAMN-- START AGAIN.

Another bright idea; create the Super profit tax and to hell with the public and miners.

Result;
Billions of dollars in mining research and development has been suspended and staff are to be sacked and industry has already started to implode. Spending has already dropped substantially.

Result.
Substantially reduced income from royalties, taxes, income tax from businesses and employees, sales tax from vehicle and machinery sales, turnover tax, G.S.T. etc. etc.

Spend more money on dole for the resultant unemployed.

Mission accomplished. !!!

If K Rudd and his cohorts get back in government the country will not recover from their untold damage and destruction and Australia will slide into recession and possibly depression.

Terence Cardwell

Principal Power Stations In Australia

2010-05-16T21:40:00.001+10:00

These figures were sourced from Between a rock and a hard place. The science of geosequestration published by The Parliament of the Commonwealth of Australia, House of Representatives Standing Committee on Science and Innovation, August 2007.
New South Wales

Name

Operator

Plant type

Primary fuel

Year commissioned

Capacity (MW)

Eraring

Eraring Energy

Steam

Black coal

1982-84

2640.0

Bayswater

Macquarie Generation

Steam

Black coal

1982-84

2640.0

Liddell

Macquarie Generation

Gas turbines

Oil products

1988

5.0

Liddell

Macquarie Generation

Steam

Black coal

1971-73

2,000.0

Vales Point B

Delta Electricity

Steam

Black coal

1978

1320.0

Mt Piper

Delta Electricity

Steam

Black coal

1992-93

1320.0

Wallerawang C

Delta Electricity

Steam

Black coal

1976-80

1000.0

Munmorah

Delta Electricity

Steam

Black coal

1969

600.0

Shoalhaven

Eraring Energy

Pump storage

Water

1977

240.0

Smithfield

Sithe Energies

Combined cycle

Natural gas

1997

160.0

Redbank

National Power

Steam

Black coal

2001

150.0

Blowering

Snowy Hydro

Hydro

Water

1969

80.0

Hume NSW

Eraring Energy

Hydro

Water

1957

29.0

Tumut 1

Snowy Hydro

Hydro

Water

1973

1500.0

Murray 1

Snowy Hydro

Hydro

Water

1967

950.0

Murray 2

Snowy Hydro

Hydro

Water

1969

550.0

Tumut 2

Snowy Hydro

Hydro

Water

1959

329.6

Tumut 3

Snowy Hydro

Hydro

Water

1962

286.4

Guthega

Snowy Hydro

Hydro

Water

1955

60.0

Victoria

Name

Operator

Plant type

Primary fuel

Year commissioned

Capacity (MW)

Loy Yang A

Loy Yang Power

Steam

Brown coal

1984-87

2,120.0

Hazelwood

Hazelwood Power Partnership

Steam

Brown coal

1964-71

1,600.0

Yallourn W

TRU Energy

Steam

Brown coal

1973-75, 1981-82

1480.0

Loy Yang B

IPM Eagle

Steam

Brown coal

1993-96

1000.0

Newport

Ecogen Energy

Steam

Natural gas

1980

510.0

Jeeralang A and B

Ecogen Energy

Gas turbines

Natural gas

1979, 1980

449.0

Valley Power

Snowy Hydro

Gas turbines

Natural gas

2002

300.0

Morwell

Energy Brix

Steam

Brown coal

1958, 1962, 1958-59

195.0

Anglesea

Alcoa

Steam

Brown coal

1969

160.0

Somerton

AGL

Gas turbines

Natural gas

2002

150.0

McKay Creek

AGL

Hydro

Water

1960

150.0

Dartmouth

AGL

Hydro

Water

1980

150.0

Eildon

AGL

Hydro

Water

1956-57

120.0

Bairnsdale

Alinta

Gas turbines

Natural gas

2001

92.0

West Kiewa

AGL

Hydro

Water

1955-56

62.0

Hume VIC

Eraring Energy

Hydro

Water

1957

29.0

Queensland

Name

Operator

Plant type

Primary fuel

Year commissioned

Capacity (MW)

Gladstone

Comalco/NRG

Steam

Black coal

1976-82

1680.0

Tarong

Tarong Energy

Steam

Black coal

1984-86

1400.0

Stanwell

Stanwell Corporation

Steam

Black coal

1993-96

1400.0

Callide C

CS Energy

Steam

Black coal

2001

900.0

Millmerran

Intergen

Steam

Black coal

2002

852.0

Callide B

CS Energy

Steam

Black coal

1988-89

700.0

Swanbank B

CS Energy

Steam

Black coal

1970-73

500.0

Wivenhoe

Tarong Energy

Pump storage

Water

1984

500.0

Tarong North

Tarong Energy

Steam

Black coal

2002

443.0

Swanback E

CS Energy

Combined cycle

Natural gas

2002

385.0

Mt Stuart

Origin Energy

Gas turbines

Oil products

1998

304.0

Oakey

Oakey Power Holdings

Gas turbines

Natural gas

2000

288.0

Yabulu

Transfield Holdings

Combined cycle

Natural gas

2005

240.0

Collinsville

Transfield Holdings

Steam

Black coal

1998

188.0

Mica Creek

CS Energy

Combined cycle

Natural gas

1997-2001

158.0

Mica Creek

CS Energy

Steam

Natural gas

1998

132.0

Mica Creek

CS Energy

Gas turbines

Natural gas

1997

35.0

Kareeya

Stanwell Corporation

Hydro

Water

1957-59

84.0

Roma

Origin Energy

Gas turbines

Natural gas

1999

80.0

Barron Gorge

Stanwell Corporation

Hydro

Water

1963

60.0

Barcaldine

Enertrade

Combined cycle

Natural gas

1996

57.0

Mackay

Stanwell Corporation

Gas turbines

Oil products

1976

34.0

South Australia

Name

Operator

Plant type

Primary fuel

Year commissioned

Capacity (MW)

Torrens Island

TRU Energy

Steam

Natural gas

1977, 1967

1280.0

Northern

NRG Flinders

Steam

Brown coal

1985

530.0

Pelican Point

International Power

Combined cycle

Natural gas

2000

478.0

Thomas Playford B

NRG Flinders

Steam

Brown coal

1960

240.0

Osborne

ATCO Energy

Combined cycle

Natural gas

1998

185.0

Hallet

AGL

Gas turbines

Natural gas

2002

183.0

Dry Creek

International Power

Gas turbines

Natural gas

1973

156.0

Quarantine

Origin Energy

Gas turbines

Natural gas

2002

92.0

Mintaro

International Power

Gas turbines

Natural gas

1984

90.0

Ladbroke Grove

Origin Energy

Gas turbines

Natural gas

2000

84.0

Snuggery

International Power

Gas turbines

Oil products

1978-97

63.0

Port Lincoln

International Power

Gas turbines

Oil products

1998-00

50.0

Angaston

Infratil Energy Australia

Internal combustion

Oil products

2005

40.0

Western Australia

Name

Operator

Plant type

Primary fuel

Year commissioned

Capacity (MW)

Muja

Verve Energy

Steam

Black coal

1985-86, 1981, 1965

1040.0

Kwinana WPC

Verve Energy

Gas turbines

Natural gas

1972

21.0

Kwinana WPC

Verve Energy

Steam

Multi-fuel

1976, 1970

880.0

Pinjar

Verve Energy

Gas turbines

Multi-fuel

1990-92, 1996

586.0

Collie

Verve Energy

Steam

Black coal

1999

330.0

Cockburn

Verve Energy

Combined cycle

Natural gas

2003

240.0

Worsley WPC

Verve Energy

Gas turbines

Natural gas

2000

120.0

Mungarra

Verve Energy

Gas turbines

Natural gas

1990-91

112.0

Kalgoorlie

Verve Energy

Gas turbines

Natural gas

1984-90

62.0

Tiwest

Verve Energy

Gas turbines

Natural gas

1999

36.0

Albany

Verve Energy

Wind

Wind

2001

22.0

Geraldton

Verve Energy

Gas turbines

Natural gas

1973

21.0

Wellington Dam

Verve Energy

Hydro

Water

1992

2.0

Bremer Bay

Verve Energy

Wind

Wind

2005

0.6

Tasmania

Name

Operator

Plant type

Primary fuel

Year commissioned

Capacity (MW)

Gordon

Hydro Tasmania

Hydro

Water

1978

432.0

Poatina

Hydro Tasmania

Hydro

Water

1964

300.0

Bell Bay

Hydro Tasmania

Steam

Natural gas

1971

240.0

Reece

Hydro Tasmania

Hydro

Water

1986

231.20

John Butters

Hydro Tasmania

Hydro

Water

1992

144.0

Tungatinah

Hydro Tasmania

Hydro

Water

1953

132.5

Tarraleah

Hydro Tasmania

Hydro

Water

1938

90.0

Cethana

Hydro Tasmania

Hydro

Water

1971

85.0

Liapootah

Hydro Tasmania

Hydro

Water

1960

83.7

Tribute

Hydro Tasmania

Hydro

Water

1994

82.8

Trevallyn

Hydro Tasmania

Hydro

Water

1955

80.0

Bastyan

Hydro Tasmania

Hydro

Water

1983

79.9

Mackintosh

Hydro Tasmania

Hydro

Water

1982

79.9

Woolnorth

Hydro Tasmania

Wind

Wind

2002-04

64.5

Devils Gate

Hydro Tasmania

Hydro

Water

1969

60.0

Lemonthyme

Hydro Tasmania

Hydro

Water

1969

51.0

Catagunyah

Hydro Tasmania

Hydro

Water

1962

48.0

Fisher

Hydro Tasmania

Hydro

Water

1973

42.0

Wayatinah

Hydro Tasmania

Hydro

Water

1957

42.0

Meadowbank

Hydro Tasmania

Hydro

Water

1967

40.0

Lake Echo

Hydro Tasmania

Hydro

Water

1956

32.4

Wilmot

Hydro Tasmania

Hydro

Water

1971

30.6

Paloona

Hydro Tasmania

Hydro

Water

1972

28.0

Repulse

Hydro Tasmania

Hydro

Water

1968

28.0

Currie

Hydro Tasmania

Reciprocating Engine

Oil products

1952

20.0

Cluny

Hydro Tasmania

Hydro

Water

1968

17.0

Butlers Gorge

Hydro Tasmania

Hydro

Water

1951

12.2

Rowallan

Hydro Tasmania

Hydro

Water

1968

10.4

Lake Margaret

Hydro Tasmania

Hydro

Water

1995

8.4

Whitemark

Hydro Tasmania

Reciprocating Engine

Oil products

-

6.0

Tods Corner

Hydro Tasmania

Hydro

Water

-

1.6

Currie

Hydro Tasmania

Wind

Wind

1998

0.8

Name	Operator	Plant type	Primary fuel	Year commissioned	Capacity (MW)
Eraring	Eraring Energy	Steam	Black coal	1982-84	2640.0
Bayswater	Macquarie Generation	Steam	Black coal	1982-84	2640.0
Liddell	Macquarie Generation	Gas turbines	Oil products	1988	5.0
Liddell	Macquarie Generation	Steam	Black coal	1971-73	2,000.0
Vales Point B	Delta Electricity	Steam	Black coal	1978	1320.0
Mt Piper	Delta Electricity	Steam	Black coal	1992-93	1320.0
Wallerawang C	Delta Electricity	Steam	Black coal	1976-80	1000.0
Munmorah	Delta Electricity	Steam	Black coal	1969	600.0
Shoalhaven	Eraring Energy	Pump storage	Water	1977	240.0
Smithfield	Sithe Energies	Combined cycle	Natural gas	1997	160.0
Redbank	National Power	Steam	Black coal	2001	150.0
Blowering	Snowy Hydro	Hydro	Water	1969	80.0
Hume NSW	Eraring Energy	Hydro	Water	1957	29.0
Tumut 1	Snowy Hydro	Hydro	Water	1973	1500.0
Murray 1	Snowy Hydro	Hydro	Water	1967	950.0
Murray 2	Snowy Hydro	Hydro	Water	1969	550.0
Tumut 2	Snowy Hydro	Hydro	Water	1959	329.6
Tumut 3	Snowy Hydro	Hydro	Water	1962	286.4
Guthega	Snowy Hydro	Hydro	Water	1955	60.0

Name	Operator	Plant type	Primary fuel	Year commissioned	Capacity (MW)
Loy Yang A	Loy Yang Power	Steam	Brown coal	1984-87	2,120.0
Hazelwood	Hazelwood Power Partnership	Steam	Brown coal	1964-71	1,600.0
Yallourn W	TRU Energy	Steam	Brown coal	1973-75, 1981-82	1480.0
Loy Yang B	IPM Eagle	Steam	Brown coal	1993-96	1000.0
Newport	Ecogen Energy	Steam	Natural gas	1980	510.0
Jeeralang A and B	Ecogen Energy	Gas turbines	Natural gas	1979, 1980	449.0
Valley Power	Snowy Hydro	Gas turbines	Natural gas	2002	300.0
Morwell	Energy Brix	Steam	Brown coal	1958, 1962, 1958-59	195.0
Anglesea	Alcoa	Steam	Brown coal	1969	160.0
Somerton	AGL	Gas turbines	Natural gas	2002	150.0
McKay Creek	AGL	Hydro	Water	1960	150.0
Dartmouth	AGL	Hydro	Water	1980	150.0
Eildon	AGL	Hydro	Water	1956-57	120.0
Bairnsdale	Alinta	Gas turbines	Natural gas	2001	92.0
West Kiewa	AGL	Hydro	Water	1955-56	62.0
Hume VIC	Eraring Energy	Hydro	Water	1957	29.0

Name	Operator	Plant type	Primary fuel	Year commissioned	Capacity (MW)
Gladstone	Comalco/NRG	Steam	Black coal	1976-82	1680.0
Tarong	Tarong Energy	Steam	Black coal	1984-86	1400.0
Stanwell	Stanwell Corporation	Steam	Black coal	1993-96	1400.0
Callide C	CS Energy	Steam	Black coal	2001	900.0
Millmerran	Intergen	Steam	Black coal	2002	852.0
Callide B	CS Energy	Steam	Black coal	1988-89	700.0
Swanbank B	CS Energy	Steam	Black coal	1970-73	500.0
Wivenhoe	Tarong Energy	Pump storage	Water	1984	500.0
Tarong North	Tarong Energy	Steam	Black coal	2002	443.0
Swanback E	CS Energy	Combined cycle	Natural gas	2002	385.0
Mt Stuart	Origin Energy	Gas turbines	Oil products	1998	304.0
Oakey	Oakey Power Holdings	Gas turbines	Natural gas	2000	288.0
Yabulu	Transfield Holdings	Combined cycle	Natural gas	2005	240.0
Collinsville	Transfield Holdings	Steam	Black coal	1998	188.0
Mica Creek	CS Energy	Combined cycle	Natural gas	1997-2001	158.0
Mica Creek	CS Energy	Steam	Natural gas	1998	132.0
Mica Creek	CS Energy	Gas turbines	Natural gas	1997	35.0
Kareeya	Stanwell Corporation	Hydro	Water	1957-59	84.0
Roma	Origin Energy	Gas turbines	Natural gas	1999	80.0
Barron Gorge	Stanwell Corporation	Hydro	Water	1963	60.0
Barcaldine	Enertrade	Combined cycle	Natural gas	1996	57.0
Mackay	Stanwell Corporation	Gas turbines	Oil products	1976	34.0

Name	Operator	Plant type	Primary fuel	Year commissioned	Capacity (MW)
Torrens Island	TRU Energy	Steam	Natural gas	1977, 1967	1280.0
Northern	NRG Flinders	Steam	Brown coal	1985	530.0
Pelican Point	International Power	Combined cycle	Natural gas	2000	478.0
Thomas Playford B	NRG Flinders	Steam	Brown coal	1960	240.0
Osborne	ATCO Energy	Combined cycle	Natural gas	1998	185.0
Hallet	AGL	Gas turbines	Natural gas	2002	183.0
Dry Creek	International Power	Gas turbines	Natural gas	1973	156.0
Quarantine	Origin Energy	Gas turbines	Natural gas	2002	92.0
Mintaro	International Power	Gas turbines	Natural gas	1984	90.0
Ladbroke Grove	Origin Energy	Gas turbines	Natural gas	2000	84.0
Snuggery	International Power	Gas turbines	Oil products	1978-97	63.0
Port Lincoln	International Power	Gas turbines	Oil products	1998-00	50.0
Angaston	Infratil Energy Australia	Internal combustion	Oil products	2005	40.0

Name	Operator	Plant type	Primary fuel	Year commissioned	Capacity (MW)
Muja	Verve Energy	Steam	Black coal	1985-86, 1981, 1965	1040.0
Kwinana WPC	Verve Energy	Gas turbines	Natural gas	1972	21.0
Kwinana WPC	Verve Energy	Steam	Multi-fuel	1976, 1970	880.0
Pinjar	Verve Energy	Gas turbines	Multi-fuel	1990-92, 1996	586.0
Collie	Verve Energy	Steam	Black coal	1999	330.0
Cockburn	Verve Energy	Combined cycle	Natural gas	2003	240.0
Worsley WPC	Verve Energy	Gas turbines	Natural gas	2000	120.0
Mungarra	Verve Energy	Gas turbines	Natural gas	1990-91	112.0
Kalgoorlie	Verve Energy	Gas turbines	Natural gas	1984-90	62.0
Tiwest	Verve Energy	Gas turbines	Natural gas	1999	36.0
Albany	Verve Energy	Wind	Wind	2001	22.0
Geraldton	Verve Energy	Gas turbines	Natural gas	1973	21.0
Wellington Dam	Verve Energy	Hydro	Water	1992	2.0
Bremer Bay	Verve Energy	Wind	Wind	2005	0.6

Name	Operator	Plant type	Primary fuel	Year commissioned	Capacity (MW)
Gordon	Hydro Tasmania	Hydro	Water	1978	432.0
Poatina	Hydro Tasmania	Hydro	Water	1964	300.0
Bell Bay	Hydro Tasmania	Steam	Natural gas	1971	240.0
Reece	Hydro Tasmania	Hydro	Water	1986	231.20
John Butters	Hydro Tasmania	Hydro	Water	1992	144.0
Tungatinah	Hydro Tasmania	Hydro	Water	1953	132.5
Tarraleah	Hydro Tasmania	Hydro	Water	1938	90.0
Cethana	Hydro Tasmania	Hydro	Water	1971	85.0
Liapootah	Hydro Tasmania	Hydro	Water	1960	83.7
Tribute	Hydro Tasmania	Hydro	Water	1994	82.8
Trevallyn	Hydro Tasmania	Hydro	Water	1955	80.0
Bastyan	Hydro Tasmania	Hydro	Water	1983	79.9
Mackintosh	Hydro Tasmania	Hydro	Water	1982	79.9
Woolnorth	Hydro Tasmania	Wind	Wind	2002-04	64.5
Devils Gate	Hydro Tasmania	Hydro	Water	1969	60.0
Lemonthyme	Hydro Tasmania	Hydro	Water	1969	51.0
Catagunyah	Hydro Tasmania	Hydro	Water	1962	48.0
Fisher	Hydro Tasmania	Hydro	Water	1973	42.0
Wayatinah	Hydro Tasmania	Hydro	Water	1957	42.0
Meadowbank	Hydro Tasmania	Hydro	Water	1967	40.0
Lake Echo	Hydro Tasmania	Hydro	Water	1956	32.4
Wilmot	Hydro Tasmania	Hydro	Water	1971	30.6
Paloona	Hydro Tasmania	Hydro	Water	1972	28.0
Repulse	Hydro Tasmania	Hydro	Water	1968	28.0
Currie	Hydro Tasmania	Reciprocating Engine	Oil products	1952	20.0
Cluny	Hydro Tasmania	Hydro	Water	1968	17.0
Butlers Gorge	Hydro Tasmania	Hydro	Water	1951	12.2
Rowallan	Hydro Tasmania	Hydro	Water	1968	10.4
Lake Margaret	Hydro Tasmania	Hydro	Water	1995	8.4
Whitemark	Hydro Tasmania	Reciprocating Engine	Oil products	-	6.0
Tods Corner	Hydro Tasmania	Hydro	Water	-	1.6
Currie	Hydro Tasmania	Wind	Wind	1998	0.8

2010-05-14T22:23:00.001+10:00

GLOBAL WARMING DIS PROVEN.

Never in the history of mankind has there been such a distortion of the truth of one innocuous gas and its supposed damaging effect on our world. That gas is Carbon dioxide, a harmless gas that is used in drinks, dry ice, and is essential to all life on earth.

The deliberate untruths used to get a new government into power, create a world panic (or close to it) and bring together leaders from all over the world to a highly expensive conference in Copenhagen that thankfully ended in abject failure. Clearly the more intelligent leaders are still taking everything that is said with a great deal of scepticism. And rightly so because it is the biggest scam since the 2000 computer millennium bug.

Remember that one. Every computer throughout the world was going to crash unless everyone got these very expensive programmes installed into their computers. Major companies, banks, governments, etc. etc. could not take the risk and spent immense fortunes to protect themselves against the possibility of a world computer crash. The results of such a crash would be catastrophic and the mind boggles at the possible results.

Premier Beattie even brought out a requirement that said the state government would not deal with you unless you were’Y2K’ compliant.

Guess what happened when the clocks changed to the next millennium. Yes you got it right, --Nothing.

The people who would not or could not afford to spend that amount of money did nothing and when they all turned their computers on, on that fateful day, the computers continued as they had always done with NO changes.

Then the lame excuses started pouring forth about why it didn’t happen.

Governments, major and minor companies who had paid an absolute fortune were completely conned. - Brilliant really! Conned by the so called ‘experts’, researchers and ‘scientists’ who once again proved they don’t have a clue, but their associates made an absolute fortune from installing the ‘new programmes’.

Once again the public are totally confused and mislead by what they hear from so many so called ‘experts’, ‘professors’, ‘scientists’, ‘researchers’ and politicians who in truth haven’t got a clue about the facts. So they all present an endless array of untruths and political spin until they now actually believe it themselves. I have come across this again and again as I did my research.

This in itself could have its funny side except that they are so caught up in the distortions and lies that they are off chasing butterflies and spending billions of tax payers’ money on ridiculous energy projects that don’t have a chance in hell of succeeding.

A prime example is the clean coal technology in Queensland where they spent approx. 1.2 billion dollars chasing butterflies and admitted recently it was a failure and had the temerity to blame the previous government.

My last letter to the editor which was made a separate page has gone global via emails, travelling all over world including the USA, UK, France, Germany, Thailand, China, Egypt, New Guinea and places unknown. It has travelled all over Australia and has been reprinted in a number of papers and loaded onto websites and blogs. The response has been unbelievable and overwhelmingly very positive. I have spent the last three weeks just answering emails from across the world.

The greenies of course didn’t like it and came out like green ants protecting their nest. Their typical retorts like I was working for the mining companies and the ‘instant’ engineer’ who wrote a letter attacking me recently has no idea what he is talking about. Trying to terrorise people by talking about ‘tons of gases’ which is typical of their fear tactics.

These people don’t realise the game is up.

They have been caught red handed defrauding the figures at the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on climate Change) and the infamous hockey stick curve where by now the earth’s average temperatures are supposed to be shooting up catastrophically.

Instead since the late 1990s the world average temperature has been drifting slowly downward.

Europe is in the grip of a cold winter which was predicted by the IPCC experts as being ‘very mild,’ because it suited their predictions.

Obviously by the world response people are waking up to the biggest scam this century and are sick and tired of being conned and lied to by politicians and those that will profit from your fear.

Later on I will tell you some facts that will shock you.

So what this global warming and climate change all about ?

Firstly there is climate change. Of course there is. We have had it for tens, thousands and millions of years. The world has suffered, ice ages, cyclones, floods , many years of hot weather, then cool weather, El Ninos, La Nina and so on but NONE of them are manmade.

One cyclone alone has more power and energy than we could ever create with such a miniscule amount of innocuous gas CO2.

The global warming issue was introduced back in 1979 by Kyoto and then by Al Gore and his people in the 1990s saying many things:

A. CO2 emissions made by mankind are making our world temperature increase and the consequences will be disastrous unless we reduce our CO2 emissions drastically.

B The polar caps are melting and the polar bears are dying.

C The oceans are rising and predicted up to 5mtrs flooding lower lying areas.

D . The Great Barrier Reef will die and become dead bleached coral

E. The oceans are warming with disastrous consequences for marine life.

F. Cyclones, floods and severe storms will increase substantially.

G There 2500 scientists who support global warming.

H Create a special panel to investigate global warming called The Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change.

So what has happened .

A. The IPCC came out with a graph showing how the world temperatures would shoot up called the hockey stick curve. They were subsequently caught out telling each other how to adjust the figures to achieve the infamous hockey stick curve see graph attached. Also research climategate.

Instead of the average world temperature going up it has drifted down slightly since the late 1990s. As would be expected.

B. The polar caps have been increasing since 2007 almost back to their earlier levels. The polar bear population has actually increased NOT decreased.

C. Since 1850 to 2006 the ocean levels increased very slowly by 30mm that’s one and a quarter inches in the old scale or about the width of your thumb. Since 2006 it has been level.

D. Only last week a number of scientists, experts on the Great Barrier Reef, have said the barrier Reef is doing great and shows no ill effects.

E. The sea temperatures have been relatively constant only varying with natural flow and the El Nino / La Nina effect.

F. Last year we had less cyclones and storms than previously.

G. The IPCC are now in total disgrace throughout the world for their deliberate gerrymandering of the figures to suit the requirements of their employers.

H Of the 2500 scientists only 600 looked at the science involving CO2.

Only 308 were part of the second review process.

Of that 308 only 62 reviewed the last chapter, which looked at what to attribute the cause of climate change.

Of that 62 only 7 reviews were independent and of the 7, 2 did not agree with the final statement, that there is a 90% certainty CO2 causes climate change.

On the other hand there are 35000 independent scientists from throughout the world who have signed a petition saying there is no conclusive evidence that CO2 causes climate change.

See-- http;//www.petitionproject.org

The Government sojourn to Copenhagen with 124 delegates and $1,500,000 spent was a complete failure and thank goodness it was we came very close to losing control of our country.!!

When Kevin Rudd was asked by Allan Jones if he had read the whole agreement he said no. He said his staff had read it for him. What he failed to realise was that he was about to sign over control of our country to a world government who would tell us what we can and cannot do, what we could grow and sell., etc. etc

AND we were to give them 2% of our GDP which equates to – ready for this-- 7 billions dollars per year to give away as they wish.

All your taxes and your hard work given away to the likes of Mugabe the despot.

2009 was one hell of a ride as the whole world clawed its way back from the abyss of a recession or worse, a financial collapse. Australia was one of the more fortunate ones thanks to the huge surplus left behind by the previous Government. With the determination that Australians have, we pushed ahead to keep our economy out of recession. And we succeeded.

Now Mr Rudd and his crew want to go ahead with this Emissions Trading Scheme, which will for everyone, devastate our economy, from which we may not recover.

If you don’t believe it then ask anyone you work for , especially the larger companies.

You don’t have to believe any of this. All I ask is that you do some research and find the truth.

Listed below are a few useful websites and links you could look at then carry on from there.

It is your country. Our parents worked too long and too hard and fought many wars to make this country what it is today. Don’t let them give it away.

Terence Cardwell

2010-05-14T22:19:00.001+10:00

THE GLOBAL WARMING FARCE

I have sat by for a number of years Frustrated at the rubbish being put forth about Carbon dioxide emissions, thermal coal fired power stations and Renewable energy and the ridiculous Emissions trading scheme.

Frustration at the lies told (particularly during the election) about global pollution. Using Power Station cooling towers for an example. The condensation coming from those cooling towers is as pure as that that comes out of any kettle.

Frustration about the so called incorrectly named man made ‘carbon emissions’ which of course is Carbon Dioxide emissions and what it is supposedly doing to our planet.

Frustration about the lies told about renewable energy and the deliberate distortion of renewable energy and its ability to replace fossil fuel energy generation. And frustration at the ridiculous carbon credit programme which is beyond comprehension.

And further frustration at some of the public who haven’t got a clue about thermal power Stations or Renewable Energy. Quoting ridiculous figures about something they clearly have little or no knowledge of.

First coal fired power stations do NOT send 60 to 70% of the energy up the chimney. The boilers of modern power station are 96% efficient and the exhaust heat is captured by the economisers and reheaters and heat the air and water before entering the boilers.

The very slight amount exiting the stack is moisture as in condensation and CO2. There is virtually no fly ash because this is removed by the precipitators or bagging plant that are 99.98% efficient.

The 4% lost is heat through boiler wall convection.

The full efficiency figures for a black bituminous coal fired power station are;

Boiler 96%

Alternator 99%

Turbine 46%

With an overall efficiency figure of 44%.

The efficiency lost is due to the cooling water extracting the heat from the LP wet steam and converting it to condensate to be pump back to the boiler via the L.P. and H.P. heaters

Coal fired power Stations are highly efficient and can generate massive amount of energy for our needs. They can generate power at efficiency of less than 10000b.t.u. per kilowatt and cost wise that is very low.

The percentage cost of mining and freight is very low. The total cost of fuel is 8% of total generation cost and does NOT constitute a major production cost.

As for being laughed out of the country, China is building multitudes of coal fired power stations because they are the most efficient for bulk power generation.

We have like, the USA,, coal fired power stations because we HAVE the raw materials and are VERY fortunate to have them. Believe me no one is laughing at Australia- exactly the reverse, they are very envious of our raw materials and independence.

The major percentage of power in Europe and U.K. is nuclear because they don’t have the coal supply for the future.

Yes it would be very nice to have clean, quiet, cheap energy in bulk supply. Everyone agrees that it would be ideal. You don’t have to be a genius to work that out. But there is only one problem---It doesn’t exist.

Yes- there are wind and solar generators being built all over the world but they only add a small amount to the overall power demand.

The maximum size wind operating generator is 3 Megawatts, which can rarely be attained on a continuous basis because it requires substantial forces of wind. And for the same reason only generate when there is sufficient wind to drive them. This of course depends where they are located but usually they only run for 45% -65% of the time, mostly well below maximum capacity. They cannot be relied for a ‘base load’ because they are too variable. And they certainly could not be used for load control.

The peak load demand for electricity in Australia is approximately 50000 Megawatts and only small part of this comes from the Snowy hydro Electric System (The ultimate power Generation) because it is only available when water is there from snow melt or rain. And yes they can pump it back but it cost to do that. (Long Story)

Tasmania is very fortunate in that they have mostly hydro electric generation because of their high amounts of snow and rainfall. They also have wind generators (located in the roaring forties) but that is only a small amount of total power generated

Based on a average generating output of 1.5 megawatts (of unreliable power) you would require over 33,300 wind generators.

As for solar power generation much research has been done over the decades and there are two types. Solar thermal generation and Solar Electric generation but in each case they cannot generate large amounts of electricity.

Any clean, cheap energy is obviously welcomed but they would NEVER have the capability of replacing Thermal power generation. So get your heads out of the clouds, do some basic mathematics and look at the facts not going off with the fairies (or some would say the extreme greenies.)

We are all greenies in one form or another and care very much about our planet. The difference is most of us are realistic. Not in some idyllic utopia where everything can be made perfect by standing around holding a banner and being a general pain in the backside.

Here are some facts that will show how ridiculous this financial madness the government is following.

Do the simple maths and see for yourselves.

According to the ‘believers’ the CO2 in air has risen from .034% to .038% in Air over the last 50 years.

To put the percentage of Carbon Dioxide in air in a clearer perspective;

If you had a room 12ft x 12ft x7ft or 3.7mtrs x 3.7mtrs x 2.1mtrs, the area carbon dioxide would occupy in that room would be .25m x 25m x .17m or the size of a large packet of cereal.

Australia emits 1 percent of the world’s total carbon dioxide and the government wants to reduce this by twenty percent or reduce emissions by .2 percent of the world’s total CO2 emissions.

What effect will this have on existing CO2 levels?

By their own figures they state the CO2 in air has risen from .034% to .038% in 50 years.

Assuming this is correct, the world CO2 has increased in 50 years by .004 percent.

Per year that is .004 divided by 50 = .00008 percent. ( Getting confusing -but stay with me)

Of that because we only contribute 1% our emissions would cause CO2 to rise .00008 divided by 100 = .0000008 percent.

Of that 1%, we supposedly emit, the governments wants to reduce it by 20%

which is 1/5^th of .0000008 = .00000016 percent effect per year they would have on the world CO2 emissions based on their own figures.

That would equate to a area in the same room the size of a small pin.!!!

For that they have gone crazy with the ridiculous trading schemes, Solar and roofing installations, Clean coal technology. Renewable energy, etc, etc.

How ridiculous it that.

The cost to the general public and industry will be enormous. Cripple and even closing some smaller businesses.

T.L.Cardwell

To the editor I thought I should clarify. I spent 25 years in the Electricity Commission of NSW working, commissioning and operating the various power units. My last was the 4 X 350MW Munmorah Power Station near Newcastle. I would be pleased to supply you any information you may require.