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Random Note — Privatisation of an essential service

by Jim Ball | Mar 8, 2022 | AGL, Blog, Coal, Random Notes, Renewable energy | 0 comments

Although Mike Cannon-Brookes pitch for AGL has been rejected by the board, for a second time, such a corporate play should serve as a warning because his entry into the energy ownership mix highlights the predictable and eventual folly of losing control to corporate...

Random Note – Coal

by Jim Ball | Aug 15, 2018 | Blog, Coal, Random Notes | 0 comments

‪If we don’t use OUR coal to provide cheap energy to drive OUR economy, other nations will use OUR coal to provide cheap energy to drive THEIR economies. Which ever way you slice it, Australia is the loser. How dumb is that?

Random Note — Coal on the cusp

by Jim Ball | Jul 2, 2018 | Blog, Coal, Random Notes

With the news today that coal is on the cusp of once again becoming our biggest export earner, the war on coal for domestic power generation by the Australian political class, just like the war on plastic bags, is a classic case of gesture politics for absolutely no...

Random Note —- Forget the here and now. Where were they then? Rewind the clock a decade or so

by Jim Ball | Apr 8, 2018 | Blog, Coal, Random Notes, Renewable energy | 0 comments

Question — If the self-flagellating, pious, high priests of politics and the commentariat with their conscientious ignorance and willful stupidity, were so deeply troubled and concerned about government intervention in the market, where were they when the government...

Random Note — Energy

by Jim Ball | Dec 14, 2017 | Blog, Climate, Climate, Coal, Energy, Global Warming, Rowan Dean | 1 comment

Below is an extract from Rowan Dean’s column in today’s Daily Telegraph. This should be a compulsory read, particularly for all those in Bennelong with voting on their minds over the next 48 hours. Read the entire thing here. Make no mistake, what’s being...

See if this sounds familiar — Charles Moore — Spectator

by Jim Ball | Nov 26, 2017 | Blog, Climate, Coal | 0 comments

See if this sounds familiar particularly the bit about ‘..the refusal to use Germany’s plentiful coal to give the country cheap energy is controversial..’ How have we arrived at a place where using coal is regarded as controversial? Again, more people...

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Random Note — Privatisation of an essential service

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See if this sounds familiar — Charles Moore — Spectator

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