LATEST NEWS FROM AEF
Closing coal? The real victims are Australian energy consumers.
/If software billionaire Mike Cannon Brookes is Australia’s latest corporate raider, his bid for AGL redefines the whole notion of a corporate raider.
Historically, corporate raiders have sought to profitably reinvigorate under-performing assets
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Let’s remove government regulations that undermine electricity
/17 February 2022
Today’s announcement of the early closure of the Eraring power station means that, with the Liddell station scheduled to close next year, almost half of New South Wales coal generation capacity will have closed.
Great Barrier Reef: Dying or Thriving?
/On Tuesday, 1 March 2022 the AEF will host a webinar on Zoom to discuss whether recent environmental assessments of the Great Barrier Reef (GBR) by Australia's reef science organisations properly reflect all the relevant scientific data.
The webinar will start at 7:30 pm NSW, VIC & TAS / 6:30 pm QLD / 7:00 pm SA / 6:00 pm NT / 4:30 pm WA / 8:30 am GMT.
Last June UNECSO tabled a draft recommendation that , if adopted, would list the GBR as a World Heritage site “in danger”. That decision was based on a series of assessments by the organisations in question, which are open to serious challenge based on the data collected up to the present time.
Our speakers will be Dr Peter Ridd, Jo Nova and Dr Walter Starck. All are experts in their field and knowledgeable about the issues to be discussed. Alan Moran will be the moderator.
Further details are available at the Zoom Registration Webpage created for the event CLICK HERE.
Attendance is free of charge but AEF is asking attendees to donate to its Bob Carter Memorial Fund, which is funding the event.
Future Policy Directions: Australian Electricity Supply
/A Submission to the Draft 2022 Integrated System Plan for the National Electricity Market of the Australian Energy Market Operator (AEMO)
Re-enthronement of capitalism: are ‘woke’ investment funds falling behind?
/26 January 2021
Over many years now, superannuation funds have been orientating their investments towards options that avoid unapproved Environmental and Social goods or Governance structures (ESG).
The governance part involves avoiding firms with boards and senior executives containing too many white males and, therefore, inadequate ‘diversity’. The Environmental and Social parts used to mean avoiding firms in the defence and tobacco industries, but the pariahs in the modern woke world are hydrocarbons – coal, gas, and oil.
Is Frydenberg’s post-Covid economic optimism justified?
/21 December 2021
Josh Frydenberg was pleased with last week’s midyear economic review issued by Treasury. He preened himself, opining that the Covid spendathon had kept the economy ticking over and that the future was a deluge of new jobs, higher incomes, and what he described as one of the world’s ‘strongest recoveries’.
There will be a reckoning for renewables
/13 December 2021
With COP26 a recent memory, the looming federal election has again pushed renewable electricity into the limelight.
Despite the campaign promises of federal politicians, electricity systems are constitutionally the responsibility of state governments.
Is the ALP ‘powering the future’?
/7 December 2021
With the collapse of the Soviet bloc came a disenchantment with socialist planning as an alternative to market capitalism.
Environmentalism, seeking to reverse specious damage allegedly caused by market capitalism, became the alternative paradigm.
ScoMo’s climate modelling: dodgier than his climate policy
/14 November 2021
The government went to Glasgow to sell its net zero emissions by 2050 policy to world leaders. The policy was based on heroic assumptions like green hydrogen
COP26 & Climate Cult’s Schizophrenia
/7 November 2021
British Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, in addressing the fashionable fiction of human-induced climate change used the hackneyed phrase “It’s one minute to midnight on that doomsday clock and we need to act now”.