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 forecasting 10 to 20 per cent increases in household power bills next year.”
And the difference that closing Hazelwood will make to the climate: nil.
UPDATE
The recent total blackout in South Australia cost around half a billion, and building a new gas plant (with a $170 million in green bribes) adds another half. It’s now emerged that Alinta offered Jay Weatherill a deal to keep Port August Power running which he turned down. If he had paid just $30m to keep the Northern coal fired station in business, there might have been no statewide blackout, and no need for regular load shedding. Wholesale electricity contracts in SA have risen from 8c per KWhr to 14c since mid last year.
Andrew Bolt writes for the Herald Sun, Daily Telegraph, and The Advertiser and runs Australia’s most-read political blog. On week nights he hosts The Bolt Report on Sky News at 7pm and his Macquarie Radio show at 8pm with Steve Price.
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