Tag: “net zero”
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Net Zero on Energy Promises
by John Mikkelsen, ©2025 (Dec. 16, 2025) — As we wind down to the dawn of a new year, it’s worth recapping how Australia’s Labor Government has delivered “net zero” on some major energy promises. At the time of writing, there are still a couple of weeks for PM Anthony Albanese to see out his pledge repeated…
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Spain’s Impossible Dream of ‘Green’ Electricity
by Paul Driessen, ©2025 (Jun. 16, 2025) — Updated Man of La Mancha lyrics could read: “To dream the impossible dream of clean, green, net-zero electricity, to fight the unbeatable foe of manmade climate cataclysms, we must run where the brave dare not go.” Don Quixote saw windmills as malevolent and dangerous dragons. Spain’s governing…
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The Dangerous Delusion of Biden and World Leaders of Transition to ‘Just Electricity’
by Ronald Stein and Tom DeWeese, American Policy Center, ©2024 (Jul. 18, 2024) — Since all hospitals, airports, communication systems, militaries, planes, trains, and vehicles are based on the products that did not exist before the 1800’s, that are now made from fossil fuels, today’s policymakers are incapable of sharing a plan to support a…
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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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India Ignores Media Preaching on ‘Net Zero Carbon’
by Duggan Flanakin, ©2021 (Apr. 12, 2021) — India is just one of an increasing number of “developing” nations which have recognized that the mad rush toward a “net zero carbon” economy does not serve the interests of their ordinary citizens. These countries are also waking up to the fact that serving the public interest…