Transition teething problem or permanent disaster?
Politicians, regulators, and subsidy-seekers portray the present difficulties in the energy market as being part of the transition from fossil…
A mild case of split portfolio disorder
As a one-time senior public servant, I find the debate over Scott Morrison’s supposed power seizure of separate ministries to…
Labor’s Climate Bill is an economic precipice
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Politicians destroy nuclear when the world needs it most
Human advancement has rested on harnessing increasingly dense sources of energy from non-human origins. Animal power, burning wood, wind technology,…
Europeans punished by expensive renewables backed by Russian gas
Europeans are now paying heavily for their shift in abandoning coal and nuclear and adopting renewable energy supported by Russian…
The (expensive) brave new world of ‘clean energy’
The market was working pretty well 20 years ago and is not expected to be much larger by 2030. It…
Climate Justice? Victoria’s fresh assault on businesses
Last week’s restoration of the electricity market, following the regulator assuming full control on June 15, means the energy crisis…
Climate Change’s ‘Pigouvian’ tax
Rod Sims, formerly head of the ACCC, advocates a carbon tax as a ‘Pigouvian’ solution to the global damage which he…
Standard of living to fall sharply
In the pre-Covid days, strike activity was fast disappearing. In Europe, the average days lost from strikes more than halved.…
Albo’s war against Capitalism
Seeking to disabuse critics of the notion that his interest and expertise in economics were Whitlamesque, Anthony Albanese released a…
Politicians have sabotaged the energy market
‘After a decade of denial and delay, Australia deserves a better future – one with cheaper power, more jobs, and…
Customers won’t like the new energy game
Right now in Australia, we are seeing some smaller electricity retailers being forced out of the market and voluntarily shedding…
This is worse than we thought
It’s much worse than we thought. The ALP will govern in its own right, but will be forced into extreme…
The Seinfeld election: a show about nothing
With the virus abating, and with the confected anger over supposed government inadequacies for compensation owed to those harmed by…
The politics of an energy dystopia
We are seeing unprecedented prices in the Australian gas and electricity wholesale markets. The first five days of May saw…
Stoking the fires of energy policy
Stung from previous election losses, the ALP is at pains to deny that it will introduce a carbon tax. The…
Scomo, Albo, and their fantasy Net Zero policies
Both the ALP and the Coalition have the same Net Zero goal for 2050, but that time frame is, at…
Renewables subsidies: $22 billion by 2030
Energy Minister Angus Taylor noted that the Commonwealth Budget added $1.3 billion to assist uneconomic renewable energy, bringing the total…
You can’t save the world with Net Zero
Ever since socialism’s credibility collapsed in 1990, environmentalism has increasingly dominated the political agenda. Central to this was the global…
Will war end the climate alarmist zeal of the central banks?
Faced with implacable opposition from the Senate, Sarah Bloom Raskin, President Biden’s pick for supervising banks within the Federal Reserve…
Practicalities in addressing autocrats’ aggression
The shock of the Russian invasion of Ukraine is that it demonstrated a form of aggression most people thought belonged…
Fresh gunpowder in the nostrils of politics
Fresh gunpowder in everyone’s nostrils has brought a new political reality. It was only this month that US Army Secretary,…
Closing coal? The real victims are Australian energy consumers
If software billionaire Mike Cannon Brookes is Australia’s latest corporate raider, his bid for AGL redefines the whole notion of…
Let’s remove government regulations that undermine electricity
Today’s announcement of the early closure of the Eraring power station means that, with the Liddell station scheduled to close…
Can Big Tech remain as the arbiter of politics?
Increasingly, climate change is coming to dominate energy supply and indeed the whole economy. Modest changes to the climate are…
