by Jim Ball | Aug 15, 2018 | Blog, Coal, Random Notes |
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?
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...
by Jim Ball | Apr 8, 2018 | Blog, Coal, Random Notes, Renewable energy |
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...
by Jim Ball | Dec 14, 2017 | Blog, Climate, Climate, Coal, Energy, Global Warming, Rowan Dean |
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...
by Jim Ball | Nov 26, 2017 | Blog, Climate, Coal |
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...
by Jim Ball | Jun 19, 2017 | Blog, Coal, Nuclear Energy, Random Notes, Renewable energy |
Not that its likely to happen, but any suggestion of a proposed inquiry into nuclear power would just be a way of fobbing it off, stalling for time and kicking the can down the road to avoid confronting and dealing with the here and now energy crisis reality. The jury...
