POOR OLD SOUTH AUSTRALIA

South Australia is still on the road to economic disaster with Premier Weatherill and his Greeny team of bureaucrats at the helm.......I doubt that SA will ever recover from being bottom of the list of viable Australian States. Its landscape is strewn with useless wind turbines, that icon of the Green Movement. Thanks to Greeny Professor Flannery we have a billion dollar desalination plant in mothballs rusting away, and, like an old abandoned gold field, we have the expensive residue of an unsuccessful deep drilling geothermal company venture, all of which has been swept under the carpet (don't mention the war).

Yesterday we saw reported (The Advertiser) the latest folly of the SA Labor Government in its quest for "sustainability" or their version of a future Utopia .......the official opening of Stage one (of 3) of the Hornsdale Wind Project located north of Jamestown, SA. 32 wind turbines of the total 105, have been completed, are owned and operated by the French company Neoen, but controlled from Canberra via the network interconnector cable.

In my opinion, this is a highly undesirable development in power supply for the State, and should be halted. The supply risk factor has been totally ignored. There will be a never ending increase in the cost of electricity due to reliance on parasitic wind farms. Already heavy industry is deserting SA (auto industry, steel, other manufacturing) due to high costs of operation (power and labor).

To be viable and have a prosperous future South Australia needs a reliable base-load supply of cheap electricity. At present, and for ages, we have had the opposite, being promoted by foolish Labor governments of Premiers Rann and Weatherill, pushing renewable energy projects with the aim of making the State a World Leader in this technology, but unfortunately they opened the door to swindlers and SCAM artists with their economic disasters.

What should be done at top priority is to develop the State's natural energy resources of coal, gas, oil and uranium. SA Mines and Energy (MESA) must be able to assist in the exploration of these resources and locate the next 100 year's of supply. We also need the latest technology to be able to convert them into usable products, like electricity and suitable hydrocarbon fuels. Our local Universities must be geared up to teach the new technologies need for this advancement.

Our future prosperity depends on developing coal and hydrocarbon fuels and nuclear power. It is high time we realized this, and gave the bum's rush to present Geenie Labor Premier Weatherill and his sycophanting bureaucrats,...... out the back door with you and never to return.

EPA leads USA and Australia to low economic outcomes

US commentator, Alan Caruba says today in his blog "Facts not Fantasy"... "Cleaning the nation’s air and water is a public health activity, but denying Americans access to the nation’s vast reservoirs of coal, oil, and natural gas is an attack on the nation’s economic growth and a denial of the energy it requires to recover from the 2008 financial crisis, providing jobs and keeping energy costs under control.
Environmentalism is based on lies and the lies reflect an agenda that regards humanity as the enemy of the Earth".

We see the same thing happening in Australia and especially South Australia which has suffered from 9 years of Labor Government mismanagement caused by dreamily following Greeny environmental ideas without question. We now have at a cost of $2 billion an unneeded desalination plant which exists on standby, run by Green power from wind mills, according to the Greens. About 25 wind farms (at least) despoil our countryside providing a dribble of power mostly when we don't need it. The domestic price for electricity is 31 cents per kWh which is the highest of all states of the nation. All wind farms require a 100% backup from gas-fired power plants so why allow them to be built in the first place?

South Australia has extensive gas and coal resources and the world's largest uranium mine all of which are ignored by Labor and Greenies in Government as as an energy source to be promoted for development. No, we must be content with very expensive electricity from wind mills and pie-in-the-sky solar-plants. Pox on Premier Jay Weatherill and his useless Labor Government. Roll on the SA State elections in March 2014. Get ready to boot Labor out of office.
Merry Xmas from Allano

Labor fails in South Australia -- economy is stuffed

Andrew Bolt, Melbourne HS reporter, sums it up well for poor old South Australia. The result of Greenpeace lover ex-Premier Mike Rann and now wishy washy Premier Jay Weatherill, Labor's legacy will be the most expensive electricity in Australia, at 31 cents per kWh (domestic), also SA has more wind farms (scams) than any other state. There is a direct correlation between number of wind farms and more expensive electricity, and domestic poverty.

Further more, SA's Labor Government public servants outnumber manufacturing jobs. Labor's record is a net loss of 23,000 manufacturing jobs and a net gain of 20,000 bureaucrats. The public servant salary bill now eats up 47% of the Labor Government's income, the largest for any state in Australia. What will happen if the SA Holden car plant closes in 2016? (Due to excessive union wage demands, power pricing and Labor's carbon tax)

The March state election must see the end of the Weatherill Labor Government. But do the Liberals know what to do to ensure a prosperous future? How about STOPPING WIND FARMS for starters.
Merry Xmas from Allano