Barely News: EPA ‘Carbon Capture’ Rules To Increase Wholesale Electicity...
By Tom Blumer ~ You might think that journalists would consider the prospect of sharply rising electricity costs in a nation blanketed by an extraordinarily cold, snowy winter and buffeted by its...
View ArticleThe Green Gulag
By Daniel Greenfield ~ 8,000 people die in the UK every year due to what is being called “Fuel Poverty”. Fuel Poverty is a trendy term for those who can’t afford to heat their home because all the...
View ArticleRenewable Power Australia – Our New Target Should Be Renewed Intelligence....
By Andrew Bolt ~ The Renewable Energy Target was meant to help stop the planet from warming. No one has every explained what difference – if any at all – it would actually make. And only now are we...
View ArticleAre Our Energy Sources Moral?
By Stephen Moore ~ (Photo: Jerry & Marcy Monkman/Newscom) Energy is the master resource, as the late, great economist Julian Simon used to say. You can’t produce much of anything if you don’t have...
View ArticleStates Plan For Higher Energy Prices Resulting From Obama’s Climate Plan
By Nicolas Loris ~ President Barack Obama told the United Nations General Assembly that nobody would get a pass when it comes to climate change. The President was referring to developing nations and...
View ArticleClimate Change Australia – Australian Labor Party Keeps Power Bills High To...
By Andrew Bolt ~ The Australian Labor Party wants Australian electrical power bills to be higher than they could be – just to pretend to “save” the planet from a warming which stopped 16 years ago:...
View ArticleAustralian Politics – New South Wales Labor’s Electricity Bill: An Extra...
By Andrew Bolt ~ Henry Ergas on how NSW Labor wants the poor to pay more for electricity – just to look after Labor’s union mates: Between 2008 and 2014, electricity transmission and distribution costs...
View ArticleRenewable Power Australia – Victoria Promises To Make Electricity More Expensive
By Andrew Bolt ~ In Australia, the State of Victoria’s new Socialist Left Labor Party Government has a cunning plan to make power prices higher in a state where manufacturing business are struggling:...
View ArticleLet Them Have Solar Panels: New Obama Plan Doesn’t Help Poor, But Reducing...
By Nicolas Loris ~ The White House is planning to give more than a half a billion dollars in government and private funding for solar panel installations for low and moderate-income households. Too bad...
View ArticleEPA’s Punitive, Fraudulent Clean Power Plan
Congress, states, and our next president must end EPA harm to human health and welfare By Paul Driessen ~ The Environmental Protection Agency’s new Clean Power Plan (CPP) requires that states reduce...
View ArticleObama’s Disastrous Clean Power Plan
By Deroy Murdock ~ Harry Alford (pictured) is right. The president of the National Black Chamber of Commerce lately has taken heat from liberals for opposing Obama’s Clean Power Plan. The Left finds it...
View ArticleRenewable Power Australia – South Australia Pretending To Save The Planet,...
By Andrew Bolt ~ South Australia has ridiculously high power prices, in part because it relies so heavily on expensive green power (which in turn demands extra subsidies). High power prices kills heavy...
View ArticleWith The Paris Climate Conference Complete, What Comes Next, What Will It...
By Marita Noon ~ The UN Climate Conference in Paris ended, as predicted, late and with lots of fanfare over the “agreement” that contains little enforceable language—other than reporting emissions. CO2...
View ArticleKilling Coal: The Obama Administration’s Intentional Assault On An Industry
Once again, the elites play and the people pay By Marita Noon ~ By now, most people are aware of President Obama’s 2008 campaign promise to bankrupt the coal industry—which he acknowledged would...
View ArticleCalls For Fracking Bans Ignore Sound Science
By Nicolas Loris and Andrew Wilford ~ Some politicians and environmental activists have been quick to call for blanket bans on hydraulic fracturing under claims that the process is poisoning America’s...
View ArticleWhy You Should Mourn Implementation Of The Paris Climate Agreement
Low-income Americans will now spend up to three-fourths of their income on energy From the Editors at the CFACT site ~ The climate agreement reached in Paris last December will become effective on...
View ArticleSeeming Good, Achieving Dark
By Andrew Bolt ~ Brendan Pearson, chief executive of the Minerals Council, points out in excerpts from the harsh consequences of dreamy green demands that we ban coal and switch to renewable power:...
View ArticleRenewable Power Australia – Wind Power Is Killing South Australia
By Andrew Bolt ~ Green power will kill heavy industry in South Australia: South Australia’s power crisis was a “wake-up call” for other states on the impact on consumers of subsidised renewable energy,...
View ArticleThese Climate Change Regulations Will Increase Your Electric Bill
By Elayne Allen and Nicolas Loris ~ Amid the summer heat, American households are thankful for affordable, reliable air conditioning. But the Obama administration’s war on coal is going to drive up...
View ArticleA New International Example For Bad Energy Policy
Will Americans learn from this disastrous policy and keep their fossil fuels? By Marita Noon ~ If a country’s goal is to decrease carbon emissions by increasing reliance on renewable energy, it only...
View ArticleHow A New California Climate Law Will Strangle Manufacturing
By David Kreutzer, Ph.D. ~ California just hung up a big “Manufacturing Workers Need Not Apply” sign. It took the form of extended, stricter, and even less realistic carbon dioxide regulations....
View ArticleClimate Change Australia – Global Warmists Kill 1000 Jobs, Threaten Power Prices
By Andrew Bolt ~ More proof of the damage done to workers and the poor by the global warming zealots now running Victoria. Pray that the lights stay on. Hazelwood Power Station Victoria’s dirtiest...
View ArticleRenewable Power Australia – All Pain, No Gain: The Madness Of Green Policies
By Andrew Bolt ~ Electricity prices across most of Australia are tipped to jump – hurting the poor and costing blue-collar workers their jobs. And the worst of it? These policies will actually make no...
View ArticleClimate Change Australia – You Pay So They May Play At Planet Saving
By Andrew Bolt ~ Add this to the cost of global warming alarmism: “Wholesale electricity prices jumped in anticipation of yesterday’s closure of the Hazelwood power station in Victoria, with analysts...
View ArticleGreen Energy Poverty Week
From the Earth Day “March for Science” to the People’s Climate March … the watermelons roll By Paul Driessen ~ April 22 is Earth Day, the March for Science, and Lenin’s birthday (which many say is...
View ArticlePresident Trump Could Save Our Electricity
By Andrew Bolt ~ Terry McCrann: Let’s hope the reports are true: that President Trump will follow through on his campaign promise to take the US out of the so-called Paris Climate Agreement… Ideally,...
View ArticleClimate Change Australia – Prime Minister Turnbull Surrenders His Biggest...
By Andrew Bolt ~ First Malcolm Turnbull gave us a Labor-lite Budget. Now he’s likely to give us a Labor-lite global warming scheme: Labor will likely back a proposed low emissions target scheme and end...
View ArticleElectrical Power Generation Australia – Sloan, McCrann: The Truth on Prime...
By Andrew Bolt ~ Judith Sloan has been devastating on Malcolm Turnbull’s mad electricity plan. Today again: If you believe your annual electricity bill will fall by $90 every year for the next decade,...
View ArticleElectrical Power Generation Australia – The Finkel Report’s Fine Print:...
By Andrew Bolt ~ You were told the Finkel plan pushed by the Turnbull Government would save you money. That was always unebleiveable. But now it turns out that even Finkel had a catch that make that...
View ArticleElectrical Power Generation Australia – Politicians Make Electricity A Luxury...
By Andrew Bolt ~ Politicians mad with global warming theory are destroying our economy and hurting the poor. They have driven cheap coal-fired power out of business and made electricity a luxury the...
View ArticleElectrical Power Australia – Check Your Power Bill: Politicians Have Ripped...
By Andrew Bolt ~ See your electricity bill soar 20 per cent this month? That’s proof you’ve been conned by politicians flogging mad global warming schemes. Let me remind you of what Kevin Rudd, one of...
View ArticleRenewable Power Australia – Green Power Costs Crushing Small Business
By Andrew Bolt ~ Is this why the Left loves global warming? Renewable energy is the excuse for governments grabbing partial control over even small business: Small Business Ombudsman Kate Carnell says...
View ArticleRenewable Power Australia – Save Us From Wind Power
By Andrew Bolt ~ Terry McCrann: Clements Gap wind plant in South Australia Of course the Renewable Energy Target should be abolished. Former — future? — prime minister Tony Abbott is absolutely right....
View ArticleElectrical Power Generation Australia – A Totally Idiot Made Electricity...
By Andrew Bolt ~ It takes world-class idiots to give Australia not just world-record electricity prices, but blackouts, too. Your bills have doubled in a decade and the Australian Energy Market...
View ArticleElectrical Power Generation Australia – What AGL Deal? What’s Prime Minister...
By Andrew Bolt ~ What is Malcolm Turnbull’s “significant win” here? What has AGL really agreed to? It sounds good: Malcolm Turnbull has struck a deal with power giant AGL to prevent a looming energy...
View ArticleElectrical Power Generation Australia – Blaming Former Prime Minister Tony...
By Andrew Bolt ~ How many voters really registered that Abbott might cross the floor if the Government did what it actually hints it won’t, and then decided to vote Labor instead? An unconvincing...
View ArticleEnergy Security Australia – He Once Said It Was ‘Delusional’, But Now It’s...
By Andrew Bolt ~ Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull claims he now has a scheme to cut electricity prices AND cut emissions. But in 2010 he said such a claim would be “delusional”. Watch. So...
View ArticleEnergy Security Australia – Prime Minister Turnbull’s New Electricity Plan...
By Andrew Bolt ~ The Turnbull Government’s electricity plan is politically stuffed if this is where the debate’s got to: Malcolm Turnbull’s new energy policy is fuelling anxiety among government MPs,...
View ArticleRenewable Energy – By Royal Decree!
Or at least by paper certificate, as St. Louis city council raises electricity costs for poor families By Paul Driessen ~ In 2016, Missouri generated 96.5% of its electricity with fossil fuel and...
View ArticleConned: The Shocking Truth About The Cost Of Closing The Hazelwood Coal Fired...
By Andrew Bolt ~ Background: This 53 year old coal fired power plant in Victoria closed at the end of March, and I made a comprehensive and detailed Post on that subject, showing that in its last 31...
View ArticleEnergy Security Australia – Prime Minister Turnbull’s Energy Plan Doesn’t...
By Andrew Bolt ~ This suggests Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull’s National Energy Guarantee is a dud for Australia: Wholesale electricity price reductions that the Turnbull government attributes to its...
View Article“Revenue Neutral” Nonsense
By David Wojick, Ph.D. ~ There are a lot of wacky schemes around for forcing people to stop using carbon-based energy, even though fire is still the basis for human civilization. The economists like...
View ArticleElectrical Power Generation Australia – NEG Brawl: Who Cares?
By Andrew Bolt ~ Here in Australia, the Turnbull Government is in a pitched battle with the States over its National Energy Guarantee. (NEG) Does anyone seriously believe that this NEG will slash power...
View ArticleGreen Carpetbaggers Named
By Andrew Bolt ~ Spot prices for electricity soared a week ago from around $70 to $14500 a megawatt hour in Victoria and South Australia, which managed to run out of electricity when wind power...
View ArticleGreen New Deal Would Barely Change Earth’s Temperature. Here Are The Facts.
By Nicolas Loris ~ Here’s the most important fact about the Green New Deal: It wouldn’t work. Ultimately, fully implementing the Green New Deal would have no meaningful impact on global temperatures....
View ArticleCalifornia Keeps Raising Energy Costs
By Ronald Stein ~ The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals decided on May 28th that climate lawsuits filed by San Mateo County and the cities of San Francisco and Oakland can proceed in state court. This after...
View ArticleAmerica Pursues Expensive Electricity While Much Of The World Lives In Energy...
By Ronald Stein ~ With many still living with little to no access to electricity, American politicians are pursuing the most expensive ways to generate intermittent electricity with offshore wind...
View ArticleElectricity Prices Are Soaring In Heavy Wind Energy States
By Steve Goreham ~ United States electricity prices are rising rapidly, up 18.1 percent over the last two years. Renewable energy advocates claim that wind and solar installations produce cheaper...
View ArticleSurging New England Energy Prices: No Surprise
By Steve Goreham ~ New England home heating and electricity prices are on the rise with no end in sight. Consumers paid record high energy bills last winter, even though the winter was not unusually...
View ArticleThe Green New Deal Could Make Electricity 28 Times More Expensive
By David Wojick, Ph.D. ~ Below I show how the Green New Deal can cause the average household electricity bill to go up a crushing $52,500. The reason is simple. Wind and solar require a lot of battery...
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