
Blue states blow nothing but hot air on wind-power boondoggles
Your electricity bill reveals a stark political divide: Red-state residents pay less, while blue states gouge their citizens and businesses with exorbitant electric rates.

Your electricity bill reveals a stark political divide: Red-state residents pay less, while blue states gouge their citizens and businesses with exorbitant electric rates.

Looking forward to another year of growth and good work together. 🎉

Reflect. Respect. Celebrate. in the city at the 2026 Hancock Prospecting Australia Day.

Bannister Downs, run by third generation dairy farmers, Sue and Mat Daubney, is the cream of the crop in a struggling industry.

NSW mayor urges PM, Premier to dump renewable projects over bushfire threat

WA’s budding zero-emissions iron industry will consume vast amounts of water if Fortescue drawing upon an extra 60 Optus Stadiums’ worth of groundwater a year is anything to go by

Regular readers of this column with a critical interest in the renewables transition – differentiated from those who are blinkered true believers – will know that the intermittent nature of wind and solar energy is the Achilles heel of the Albanese Government’s strategy.

Around 6,000KM of new transmission lines are needed to deliver net zero emissions but with rising costs – industry experts have warned the economic rationale in spending billions may be weakening.

‘If you want to compete, and your economy ends up at risk, you’ve got to make difficult choices,’ said Brandon Craig who questioned whether Australia’s IR, tax and climate targets were at odds with its natural resource ambitions.

BP and Exxon are some of the big companies that have halted plans for low-carbon plants in recent months

More than 200 farmers and community members packed Shady Creek Hall last week to voice fierce opposition to multiple industrial-scale battery storage projects proposed for prime dairy country in West Gippsland.

A secret confidentiality deed has blocked public access to documents about Queensland’s failed $12bn pumped hydro project that allegedly contaminated farmers’ water supply.