Tag: Wind Farms

Australian Politics

The Americanisation of Australian politics: watching the Atlas Network – » The Australian Independent Media Network

The Atlas Network home page with crossed circle

It is no accident that the Australian “conservative” movement has transformed into an echo of the toxic American Right. Fossil fuel money and a giant international network of junktanks bear much of the blame.

Dr Jeremy Walker’s research into the Atlas Network’s Australian partners brought that American body to prominence over the referendum campaign. The media coverage of his academic study into the influence of “think” tankssuch as the Centre for Independent Studies (CIS) and the Institute of Public Affairs (IPA) carrying Atlas strategies into the Australian civic discourse raised Atlas’s profile.

The latest attack by Atlas partner organisations, including (unofficially) News Corp, is a strategic campaign against offshore wind farms.

 

Source: The Americanisation of Australian politics: watching the Atlas Network – » The Australian Independent Media Network

Energy

Game Over? Even BP and TotalEnergies are Shelling out $14.7 Bn. for Right to Build Baltic Sea Wind Farms

Multinational oil companies BP and TotalEnergies emerged as winners in Germany’s latest auction for the right to build offshore wind farms in the North and Baltic seas. The companies, which are headquartered in the UK and France, bid a combined 12.6 billion euros to construct turbines with a total capacity of 7 gigawatts (GW), roughly equivalent to 7 large conventional power stations, and almost equalling the country’s entire existing offshore capacity.

Source: Game Over? Even BP and TotalEnergies are Shelling out $14.7 Bn. for Right to Build Baltic Sea Wind Farms

Fight against Fake News, Fighting Fake News

Old Dog Thought- Dictionaries don’t operate at the speed with which Morrison changes the language.
Illustration: Simon Letch

Fighting Fake Facts with REAL 10/12/21; Call for Royal Commission into Media; Murdoch Influence; LNP Regional Rorts; Morrison Humour; Oil-backed opposition to wind farms;

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Oil-Backed Group Opposes Offshore Wind for Environmental Reasons

The GE-Alstom Block Island Wind Farm stands in the water off Block Island, Rhode Island, U.S., on Wednesday, Sept, 14, 2016. The installation of five 6-megawatt offshore-wind turbines at the Block Island project gives turbine supplier GE-Alstom first-mover advantage in the U.S. over its rivals Siemens and MHI-Vestas. Photographer: Eric Thayer/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Local think tanks that previously supported offshore drilling have engaged in a wide-ranging campaign to stop the expansion of offshore wind farms.

Source: Oil-Backed Group Opposes Offshore Wind for Environmental Reasons

Fight against Fake News, Fighting Fake News, Uncategorized

Old Dog Thoughts- Murdering the ABC for Murdoch and the IPA, No Cut’s to the ABC was their election promise in 2013

ABC managing director David Anderson.

Fighting Fake News with REAL,9/12/19; Murder of the ABC; Wind Farms saving electricity bills; Dutton the worst Cabinet Minister ever; Arctic Ice Melt;