Tag: carbon energy
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Green, Powerless and Defenceless
by Viv Forbes, with help from friends (Oct. 30, 2023) — As net zero strangles Australian industry, Australia is becoming green, powerless and defenceless. History holds lessons which we ignore at our peril. Japan was opened to trade with the US in the 1850’s. They were daunted by the naval power of Britain and the…
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Priorities for Australia
“WE MUST FIX THESE FOUR ISSUES” by Viv Forbes, ©2019, Executive Director, The Saltbush Club (Mar. 11, 2019) — To view in your browser click: https://saltbushclub.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/four-priorities.pdf Poor policies are taking Australia into tough times. There are four priorities for the coming election. Firstly: Decimate the Foreign Green Snakes in the Grass. The climate/emissions obsession started…
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Time to Drain the Energy Swamp
“GREEN OOZE” by Viv Forbes, ©2018, carbon-sense.com (Jul. 20, 2018) — The Australian electricity market has become a stinking swamp covered with a tangled net of treaties, laws, rules, obligations, prohibitions, targets, taxes and subsidies. The swamp conceals the rubble of demolished coal generators; another plant destined for destruction (Liddell) is gradually sinking in the…