Howdy y'all in Germany, Armenia, Sweden, and Hungary...(howdy y'all, cheers-Ed)...and cheers to you too Ed, you confected literary device you...and whatevs ya' do or don't think 'bout Germany, I've heard more than one person say that Angela Merkel is basically holding Western Democracy together, let alone the European Union...(yeah, I'll have some of that action-Ed)...nah it's not a bet, it's a political commentary...(yeah, but it's still a safe bet-Ed)...well indeed, there's a very strong argument for her position as the 'glue' keeping the whole shebang vaguely functional...(I've never really understood the European Union really-Ed)...ummm, yeah, I think I get what it's meant to be and why, eg, open and therefore bigger/stronger economies, freedom of movement, etc, security, etc, etc, but it's often the case that there's quite a wide gap between ideology and application, and I reckon that's what we've got here with the EU...anyhoos, oops, we digress, again, already...(oh we always do that, in fact, I remember this one time you were trying to sink the metaphoric literal boot right into the fundamental failings of Wind Turbines-Ed)...ok, thankyou...(and the associated Labor government ideology and associated corruption and the legislative Fascism of the 2011 Development Plan Amendment-Ed)...that's enough...(and you were trying to discuss the havoc and the intermittent chaos thusly unleashed on Taxpayers/Consumers as production surges then crashes causing massive power bills, 'Load Shedding/Rationing' and ultimately blackouts.........and it started to run-off into a really long and unwieldy paragraph that wasn't really about anything anymore......and you started to get really annoyed about it......remember that time?.........hello?-Ed)...
Right, nothing that the Weatherill Labor government has done since the September 2016 State-wide Black-out event, not this farcical $550million announcement re an 'Emergency Gas Plant' and this ludicrous '$50-$100m Lithium Battery', and all the provaricating poncing-about mouthing-off re how we in SA, how we're gunna' tell every other state what to do and how and when, etc, etc, etc, blah, blah, blah, it's all absolute bollocks because we are as vulnerable as ever, if not even more so...(even more so?-Ed)...well if you're in deep doodoo and you won't even acknowledge that fundamental reality, yeah?...(true, and then you start doubling-down on the problems you won't acknowledge-Ed)...exactly...for everything that has and/or hasn't happened, we, SA, are in exactly the same extremely vulnerable position re our Electricity Production and/or Supply...with no Base Load production here in SA, and as part of the 'National Grid', we are quite literally at the end of a very tenuous line...
The September 2016 State-wide Black-out came down to one critical decision, to 'switch-off/disconnect/un-plug/whatevs' South Australia's Base Load Electricity Supply that is produced in Western Victorian Coal-fired power stations and comes to SA via the critically important Heywood Interconnector...this decision to 'Switch-off' SA was made outside SA by the Australian Energy Market Operator, and AEMO justified their actions with concerns that SA's vulnerabilities threatened to 'feed-back' down the system and 'crash Victoria and even New South Wales', and therefore AEMO had no choice because the situation demanded it, they cut us loose...that is how it was and that is exactly how it remains exactly now, the next 'event' that potentially threatens The Grid and we're out matey, there's the door, don't worry, we'll slam it behind you...
However it comes to be, when the next 'Emergency' or the next 'Event', whatevs and howevs and wherevs and whenevs it happens, the moment our problems look like threatening The Grid, we will get royally shunted, and AEMO have no choice...and that is a reality just looking for somewhere to land...and here's a coupla' others, again...
Wind Turbines:...do not function when there is no wind, eg, like the recent weeks of crisp frosty still Winter nights or during a traditional Adelaide Summer when it's often bakingly hot and millpond calm for days at a time, let-alone the full-on heatwave conditions when it hits 35C-40C+ for a week...at these times, No Wind No Power, and SA is reliant on our limited Solar Production...(which doesn't work at night-Ed)...sure, but there's Solar panels and Gas-fired Turbines...and then yes, at night it's down to Gas...and all the time we are to varying degrees (but still wholly) reliant on the Base-Load 'Leccy headed our way from Victoria via the Heywood Interconnector, electricity produced in Coal-fired Power Stations...Wind Turbines also don't work when the wind is too strong, and/or when there are Catastrophic Bushfire conditions and Turbines are meant to be closed-down for safety...
And when Wind Turbines fail, and due to their vulnerability to the variability of climatic conditions they are guaranteed to fail, they will fail monumentally often completely, and are guaranteed to cause massive and unpredictable drops in Electricity Production/Supply with the multiple associated problems with Supply Reliability and how that affects industry, etc, with increased costs for business and/or private consumers, etc, etc, etc...no amount of mindless dribble from Premier Weatherill or Minister Tom Koutsontonis about batteries and gourd knows what else, it changes nothing, it's all absolute bollocks...by their very design, Wind Turbines are guaranteed to fail...(how do you recharge a battery when your re-charge source is not functioning?-Ed)...well that's the point we've been making I thought, with hilarious posts about World's Biggest Torch, World's Biggest Box of Matches, etc...
Irony:...is when you can confidently predict that there's gunna' be massive flat-spots in your Electricity Production but you can't really predict when...(other than a coupla' days before or the day before, ya' know, there's not gunna' be any wind tomorrow so's there's no Turbine production, etc, you can predict that-Ed)...well yes and no, because these 'weather predictions' can themselves change quickly...(or not change at all, eg, 2 really hot days slides into 4 or 5 as that unexpected Low Pressure System moves in and keeps the High centred over central Oz for longer than predicted, etc-Ed)...good call, because long calm periods are as problematic as sudden changes...so the Irony is that re Wind Turbines, you can predict with 100% accuracy that there will be periods of 0% Energy Production, and you can sortta' predict the conditions, eg, during a heatwave, but you have exactly 0% chance of picking when exactly that's gunna' happen, eg, it might be the middle of Winter instead...
Charging Of A Salt Battery:...with the heat from a 'Solar Farm', I thought this was the go-to technology for storing Weather-Driven Energy Production, eg, the proposed facility near Pt Augusta, a 'Solar Thermal' set-up with a 'super-heated super-saline battery' as ít's method of storage...reflected sunbeams are focussed on a central 'boiler/battery' which contains a super-saline solution that gets super-heated and can then be used as steam to drive a turbine...this is a very basic outline of how they work, but you get the picture...(ahhh, and hence 'Charging Of A Salt Battery', you're referring to how a Solar Farm operates, by using the sun to heat/charge a Saline Boiler/Battery-Ed)...indeed...(whilst making yet another atrocious pun, 'Charge of Assault and Battery'-Ed)...one does what one can...
The Role Of Rocks:...in the EP debate has all-but disappeared, which is very confusing because in various forums/resources, eg, good ol' Wikipedia, South Australia is specifically identified as being geographically very suitable for Geothermal or 'Hot-rock Generation'...(hey, we were talking about that just a few posts back too, remember, re Mt Gambier and Mt Shank being literally the volcanic end-of-the-line for the dozens of volcanic features through Western Victoria into South East SA here, and this area, the Kanawinka Geothermal Park, being re-labelled without the 'geothermal' bit and you reckoning that's potentially a political decision designed and implemented to remove the term 'geothermal' from 1) the public conciousness/awareness and therefore 2) from the Electricity Production Debate altogether-Ed)...indeed, I do recall and I re-iterate that I reckon that it's absolutely possible and even probably a deliberate removal for those reasons, but whatevs, the facts re the genuine Base-Load Renewable Energy Production of Geothermal are irrefutable yet remain buried deep, right there alongside those nice hot rocks themselves...(I can dig that man-Ed)...
A fundamental review of the SA Rann/Weatherill Labor government's supposed Renewable Energy strategy/actions/whatevs, shows that Labor 1) have very specific ideologies they are adhering to regardless of the facts and/or fallout, and that 2) those 'ideologies' are largely motivated by a Labor desire/agenda to cater/pander to Adelaide's Inner-Suburban Politically Correct Pseudo-Greenies of which I absolutely was/am one, guilty as self-accused, Labor catering/pandering/pork-barrelling/whatevs in an election-to-election campaign for re-election...that's all that Labor does, can't govern the State so they just govern to govern again...(and the current frenzy of 'funding announcements' is so blatantly pork-barrelling that even Labor aren't bothering to try and hide it!-Ed)...well indeed...
Riddle Me This:...if home-based Solar Panels and feeding back into The Grid, etc, etc, if all of that is so terrific, why hasn't Labor invested in Solar Panels for the many of thousands of Housing Trust (Housing SA) properties across the state?...(now that's actually quite a reasonable question, imagine 1) the power being generated right across SA, particularly in population centres like Whyalla, Pt Augusta, etc, and then 2) the income being generated for SA Taxpayers if 1,000s of HSA homes were delivering their 'excess' back into the National Grid-Ed)...exactly, if Labor were/are so committed to Solar, and Solar Production and/or Rebates are so great, etc, why haven't Labor whacked a stack-a-panels on every State-owned Rental Roof?...(but I thought you said that Labor were selling-off and/or just giving-away Housing Trust properties to various 'Private Care Providers', PCPs almost entirely Religion/Church based?-Ed)...you're right Ed, I did say that...(and you then went on to say that this was/is Labor deliberately dismantling/privatising the Housing Trust, yet another privatisation by Labor and yet another rank betrayal of their Rank and File, their members and/or supporters)-Ed)...again, all things I have said Ed, and it's certainly one very good explanation as to why Solar Panels haven't happened, but there's no genuine excuse...
Just Hilarious:...to hear our Labor Premier Jay 'The Shiny Man' Weatherill say that 'there must be a National Approach to the Murray/Darling (Rivers) Basin Plan', following allegations that Cotton farmers in New South Wales are illegally pumping millions of litres of water already paid for via Environmental Flow Buy-Back Schemes, eg, for the Lower Lakes and Coorong area here at the Murray Mouth in SA, etc...again, a very basic outline of what's meant to be happening, but you get the idea...and having screeched about how he's gunna go it alone...(how we're gunna' go it alone-Ed)...indeed, how SA, having completely rooted our own State and thusly dragging the entire Eastern Seaboard to the edge of the Abyss, well now we're apparently just going to make-up our own rules re the National Electricity Grid...(well yay for us-Ed)...but we've gotta' have a National Grid or Labor's dribble about 'exporting excess energy' (as a justification for Wind Turbines), this simply cannot work, and it's a fundamental reality that we need 'Leccy coming from Victoria...(yay withdrawn-Ed)...
So we are extremely vulnerable on multiple fronts, be it the whimsy of wistfully windless weather, and/or demand and/or production interstate, and/or how we get treated by the AEMO, etc, etc, etc...and this already disastrous situation has drastically worsened with the closure of the Hazelgrove Coal-fired Power Station in Victoria, where only today it is being reported widespread concerns re that state's lack of power heading into this Summer...(and if Victoria is under any sort of threat, then we get the chop?-Ed)...well I defer to the official nomenclature for this delicate and critical action, Operation Choppity Chop Lickety Split, but yes, if there's any issue it's lights-out matey for SA...and there have already been some reports in mainstream media stating as fact that SA will suffer multiple blackouts this Summer 2017/18...
Just In Closing:...fascinated is one way to describe my response to the news that Jay Weatherill's head of Office of Premier and Cabinet, the $550,000 per annum Kym Winter Dewhirst, well apparently Kym mate...(maaate-Ed)...Kym's bailing (has already bailed?) on his contract, apparently due to his wife's illness, his wife being Sandra Winter Dewhirst, formerly head of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation in Adelaide, and notorious here on this li'l ol' blog for officially shutting-down ABC involvement with the St Martins Lutheran School Child Abuse Cover-up...(ahhh yeah, that's right, back in 2006/07 when you parents, in liaison with the then SA/now Federal Senator Nick Xenophon, had Nick stand-up in SA Parliament and call for an official Inquiry into the Teacher's Registration Board, specifically identifying Mt Gambier, etc-Ed)...exactly, and Sandra claimed via that email, that she had consulted with multiple un-named senior ABC journos, producers, etc, re the un-named 'issue', and that they had all agreed to not touch it...(pathetic, pathetic and corrupt-Ed)...well indeed, rancidly, pathetically pro-paedophile corrupt...(and I can help Sandra with some of those names, if it helps?-Ed)...please Ed, fire away...
(Well I'm assuming it would be at least some of the many senior ABC personnel you parents had discussed this matter with, eg, Stan Thompson, Simon Royal, Ian Henschke, Patrick Emmett, Alan Richardson, Matthew Abraham and/or David Bevan, etc, various people at Four Corners, the 7.30 program, etc, etc-Ed)...well, if you get past the likelihood that Ms Winter Dewhirst is as much a liar as she is a corrupt pro-paedophile stooge, once you get over that li'l obstacle, and good luck with that, then yes Ed, these are indeed some of the ABC Illuminati that one assumes must have been consulted...but it's all ok, 'cos Premier Jay reckons that Kym's getting paid for his full contract, even though he's leaving/left, because he'll continue to advise his replacement for a while...(super-Ed)...
Tomorrow: My Court Stuff
A Fine Fate Indeed:...and you're just not gunna' believe it, but as already reported in The Border Watch, I was back in Court last week as my case was adjourned yet again from August 2017 to October...(it says here that your "fate" won't be decided until then...your "fate"?...what are you, a shreckin' Nordic Saga or something?-Ed)...well indeed, unless TBW knows something I don't know, the ultimate 'fate' for breaching the undefinable Independent Commission Against Corruption Act 2012, Section 56 (a) and/or (b), is a $30,000 fine...(just a fine?...well that's just fine then, just fine-Ed)...yes, just a fine...but now it's also been moved again to November...(sorry, what?!-Ed)...yeah I'll tell ya'...(moved again?-Ed)...yeah yeah, laters, tomorrow...
And one of the most hilarious quotes I've read in quite some time, thankyou Mayor Andrew Lee...(oh what's he up to now, that zany Mayor of ours?-Ed)...nah mate, don't get me started again, I've still got a stitch from before...(go on, just quick-Ed)...well it's another issue I've been carrying for quite a while, say 18 months even longer, re Mayor Lee stiffing a builder for near-on $70,000...(that's not funny-Ed)...yeah, but Andy's got some wise words for us plodding plebians, re the Ways of the Honest Man...(what, does he know one?-Ed)...cheeky...
One Last Blast:...because it irks me somewhat to be agreed with by Federal Liberal Scott Morrison 'cos I reckon it was he I heard describe SA's proposed 100megawatt Lithium Battery farce as being 'a shiny new distraction that doesn't solve the problem'...(it's shiny-Ed)...indeed, just like our Premier, Jay the Shiny Man...
I am Nick Fletcher and this is my blog...cheers and laters...
Thursday, July 27, 2017
Friday, July 21, 2017
Tidying-up A Few Loose Ends
Howdy to the new besties USofA and Russia...(and what is goin' on there?-Ed)...dunno', I just, dunno', whatevs...and also howdy to France where they've all just been G20ing it up or whatevs, and of course to good ol' availees here in good ol' Oz, howdy and welcome to TMGI, the Antipodean Bloggin' Machine (The Mighty Boosh - Killeroo, The Antipodean Killin' Machine)...(I love TMB, it's ridiculously absurd and deeply philosophical all at the same time-Ed)...indeed, but we digress, to the issues Ed...
Please Note Dear Availees:...that because of the very sensitive nature of the following, I've deliberately tried to tip-toe right around using any names, other than absolutely necessary to describe where/what/why/when, etc...
More About Child Abuse Allegations:...that were put to me and/or that I was asked about back in April 2017, enquiries specifically citing Generations In Jazz (held in May), and how that appears to relate to an article from The Advertiser from April 2017, and as re-produced on Limestone Coast Community News, the Interweb page thingy run by Mt Gambier City Councillor Josh Lynagh...this is an unmitigated disaster that I'll try my best to explain, but always in the contexts that 1) there's often so much deliberate misinformation and/or misreporting and/or partial reporting, and so many incidents overall, etc, etc, that it's often difficult to sort the shizzle from the chaff from the grain, and 2) I've already copped heaps about apparently being responsible for the farcical housing stuff-up with jazz students, etc...but here goes...again, please note that I'm trying to be sensitive to the many elements here...(not least of all to the young woman involved-Ed)...indeed Ed, not least of all to the young woman involved, that I might have her courage...
I believe that this article and the subsequent questions asked of me, refer to an incident or incidents that occurred at Tennison Woods (Catholic) College and did apparently involve a senior figure associated with GIJ but I understand not at GIJ the event itself...so yes, to respond directly to what was asked of me, this may be referring to that specific person and those incidents, which fall with-in that time-frame, etc, but I do not know specifically about the GIJ or the Academy or anything and/or anyone else...please again note that I have specifically not used any names here, not even correctly identifying the Academy, etc, but not least of all because appropriate authorities, eg, the school, SAPol, etc, do know exactly what happened and who's involved...and they knew then too...(knew then?-Ed)...absolutely...
Unless of course it was in reference to a different but near-identical major Child Abuse issue, I vividly recall hearing the Tennison Woods Principal David Mezinec at the time (2010), on the ABC South East Radio, emphatically denying any problem, nothing to see here, followed literally immediately by a senior SAPol officer (Supt Mark Fairney?), nuthin' to see here, and literally with-in 24hrs the rumour had reached my ears about 'what a slut that girl is, and she's done it before, etc'...(oh, so it's definitely a cover-up then-Ed)...what Ed? the Catholic Principal and a senior SAPol officer say it's all fine, and The Rumour says she's a slut...(yeah, so it's a cover-up-Ed)...Ed, are you suggesting that the Principal and the SAPol officer were being deliberately untruthful, and that that 'slut' rumour was immediately and deliberately spread to denigrate and demonise the victim, are you suggesting that that was all quite deliberate and planned to try and cover-up Child Abuse? is that what you're suggesting?...(I believe the truth always suggests itself best, I need suggest nuthin'-Ed)...
Sorry folks, can't remember if I have previously mentioned this particularly bad case of Official Denial and Official Underground Rumour (ODOUR) on this 'ere blog, reckon I might have, whatevs, this is the sort of shizzle, the sort of rank ODOUR I've got just a-bangin' away inside me ol' noggin but am super cautious about addressing...(well this and all the institutonalised pro-paedophile corruption of the St Martins Lutheran School Child Abuse Cover-up-Ed)...and 15 years of that, yeah, cheers, thanks for reminding me...(and 15 years of the same 'Victim Denigration' by rankly corrupt people-Ed)...indeed, and 15 years and this very official Catholic/SAPol/Lutheran/whoevs strategy of Victim Blaming and/or Victim Denigration and/or 'Slut Shaming' to try and cover-up abuse/corruption/whatevs...and apparently this strategy is unfortunately becoming increasingly popular, and hence the segue straight into...
Footy Flings:...have apparently undone the careers of several senior AFL (Australian Football League) officials in the last coupla' weeks, and various 'Sex Scandals' continue to dog our leading 'Football Codes'...apologies, I've barely looked at this stuff, but apparently 2-3 AFL officials (men, married) have resigned due to 'affairs' with junior staffers (female, single), and it's being commented/identified that the young women involved have been publicly exposed and almost viciously targeted or 'Slut Shamed' re their role in these 'affairs'...dunno', don't really care, alleged adults having affairs, whatevs, but the attitude of the response, this Slut Shaming Strategy is a genuine concern...and it's a strategy only too often employed when powerful institutions and/or the men who run them fall foul of their own foolishness...there are concerns that whilst these men, who have established careers, expertise, etc, will likely return to high-profile positions, albeit possibly in different organisations, the young women's career opportunities/potential may be much more drastically affected...
Whatevs the gender, regardless of their marital status, it is a reasonable and professional position to place the onus of responsibility on the senior executive, and I share these concerns that ultimately the young women involved will be the ones who wear the worst of the fall-out, who bear the brunt of this situation...and amid this blizzard of righteous indignation spewing out of the AFL apologies for going back to a particularly bad case, the following is quite graphic and unpleasant, again sorry, but it's worth remembering and in many respects should never be forgotten what happened in Adelaide some 20 years ago when 3 AFL players drugged a young woman at a nightclub, took her into the Parklands adjacent, and raped her...again I've left out the names, but SAPol, etc, know exactly who it was and many will recall I'm sure, and it's probably somewhere on the Interweb...no charges ever laid and the woman openly denigrated as somehow responsible, etc, etc, but then reportedly received a $200,000 'compensation payment'...turns out that one of the players involved had a known history for drugging and assaulting woman...but apparently never charged for any of it...
So when the shreckin' AFL is holding forth about how much they respect woman and we all politely forget/ignore what has actually happened over the years, when all that is ignored, never ever forget that we are talking about big, big bucks here...(mucho mucho dinero?-Ed)...mucho, the AFL is a massive industry...and look at how this Uber-Clown Jeff Kennett, former Victorian Liberal Premier, head honcho at Hawthorn AFL club, and self-appointed head of Beyond Blue, an alleged 'Depression Foundation', check-out how unhinged he got in attacking the young woman who had an affair with the senior Channel 7 executive, as currently going through Court, etc...Lord Jeff let his true colours hang right-out in being publicly and balistically abusive of this young woman, abuse awash with open hostility and his bitter gender-bias...and another painfully seamless segue straight back to the opening paragraphs, because Jeff's trying to get his grubby mits on GIJ, and the thought of that man being involved with anything to do with vulnerable people and/or kids makes my blood run cold...
For F-F-Forestry Sake:...I ain't happy with my own tendency to drift tangentially into unrelated topics...(croutons?-Ed)...and/or be easily distracted...(ooo, look at that over there, it's shiny-Ed)...and feel that I've failed to properly explain the disaster that is the rankly corrupt Lease/Sale of the South East Forestry Estate to OneFortyOne Plantations...so here's goes...
1) was meant to be a '3 Rotation Lease', lasting approx 100years, for which the Rann/Weatherill
Labor government received $670million;
2) when this 'Lease' was signed there was reportedly no Nursery component, until Labor literally
gave 141P the Glencoe Nursery;
3) Forestry SA was meant to manage the SEFE for the first 5 years, with a 'first refusal option'
for another 5, but Labor ended this FSA management after only 3-1/2 years, forcing dozens
of public servants to either join 141P or be effectively unemployed;
4) at this time 'expert opinions' argued that because Labor had now effectively handed full
control of the SEFE to 141P, the trees, the land, Glencoe Nursery, etc, plus all the staff, the
'Intellectual Property', etc, it effectively effected a 'Sale' rather than a 'Lease', and therefore
Labor had 'Sold' the SEFE to 141P for $670m;
5) 'expert opinions' also 'conservatively valued' the trees, land, IP, etc, combined, at $2billion;
6) this puts South Australia's loss immediately at $1.3billion...even wildly parred-back, let's call
it $1b straight, yeah? that's absolute minimum $1billion Rann/Weatherill lost SA;
Floggin'-Off Our Log-Stocks:...this is where the New Shreckin' Adelaide Oval comes in, because it's being widely stated by people like Labor and the SACA/SANFL, etc, etc, whatevs, that this oval has 'payed for itself already'...(well that's if you ignore what Rann/Weatherill did to pay for the damn thing, namely, floggin'-off our shreckin' trees!-Ed)...well quite, and that stuff we have covered thoroughly, but just quickly again...
1) at the 2010 SA State Election, the Liberal Party Labor promised approx $450million for a
'Covered Sport Stadium' on the Rail Yards where Labor has built the New Royal Adelaide
Hospital, and to match that Labor promised (unfunded) to re-vamp the Adelaide Oval;
2) to achieve this re-vamp, Labor promised the SA Cricket Assoc that it would pay-off
SACA's $90m debt, and SACA complied/agreed...this is a $90m bribe, nothing less;
3) this unfunded promise and attached bribe led directly to the immediate SEFE Lease/Sale;
4) the SEFE 'Fire' Sale, for $670million, was voted through SA Parliament the very day after
the SACA meeting that approved accepting the $90m bribe and redevelopment...(well
technically it's a much bigger bribe than that because there's all the new SACA facilities
and swank dining rooms, etc, etc, don't ya' know-Ed)...yes, and the tap-less golden faucets
gushing Moet 24/7, whatevs, but you are correct, the SACA and it's various and often
nefarious associates, acolytes, and attendees have all done very nicely thankyou very much!
Dear Availees:...I believe that the events re the SEFE 'Sale', what motivated it, etc, and the timing and/or chronology of said events, well, either one accepts that the unfunded Labor Adelaide Oval re-vamp forced the SEFE 'Sale', or one doesn't, that that funding somehow came from somewhere else...ultimately though, it's not even relevant given the massive loss re how Labor have conducted that 'Sale'...(I get it, it's basically irrelevant what the $670m was spent on because of the $1billion minimum Labor immediately lost in the process, the $1b absolute minimum that never made it into state coffers-Ed)...spot on Ed, and it is closer to $1.3 billion, that's what I understand to be a reasonable figure...
Dear Availees, Again:...I haven't gone into the details again of what Forestry SA were making profit wise, etc, and what that costs SA annually...($30m clear per year?-Ed)...yeah, $40m maybe, it's money not coming in, whatevs...not gunna' mention that other than to remind y'all of the recent flurry of activity re 141P's massively expanded profit, $120m+, and how that relates to apparent clear-felling of parts of the SEFE, etc, etc...these are realities, these things are not my opinion...(if I may sir?-Ed)...please...(ta', I've just had this niggling annoyance in the back of my head for a while-Ed)...I do not know what that is like, Ed............(anyhoos, re the article in The Border Watch from a few weeks back when 141P's Linda Sewell countered/addressed these 'clear-felling' allegations and 'planting re future log-stocks', etc-Ed)...yes, I do recall...(well in that article Ms Sewell states that 'this year alone we're planting 5million trees'-Ed)...sounds like a lot, sure, but what's your point?...(well Ms Sewell doesn't say and/or the article doesn't say anything about how many trees 141P have already planted, it says 'we're gunna' plant like squillions this year', but neglects to mention how many thus far-Ed)............
(Well, and I just thought, given that the whole debate is about appropriate logging/clearing rates, etc, and very specifically concerns about the apparent failure to re-plant enough now, about 'experts' concerns re the future of log supplies, etc, as it relates to low planting rates now, etc, etc, well I thought 141P would be bang-up for a bit of 'hey, in the 5 years since The Sale we've whacked-in approx 12million trees, we've planted so many damn trees like you wouldn't believe it'-Ed).........(I just thought that it was a bit odd not to mention it at all, that's all-Ed).........(hello?-Ed)...sorry, sorry, just can't quite hear you clearly for the retreating resonations of that resounding clang! right there where a very large penny dropped, a penny worth $670m...but wait, we're getting an email, no, sorry, a tweet...
Best Planting Regime Eva? Even That Guy There Doesn't Believe It:...it does seem rather odd an omission, either 141P not stating and/or TBW not asking and/or not reporting how many trees planted thus far...it's a major part of what the debate is about, of what that article is about, but ne'ery a mention...dear availees, I'll try to check on exactly what 141P have and/or haven't planted thus far, and I'll get back to ya's...
Tomorrow: More Loose Ends re Wind Turbines
And some Court stuff...(yeah, what is happenin' with that?-Ed)...'cos I've been in Court again this week...(this week? I thought it was 5 more days in August?-Ed)...it was, until I got a phonecall Monday re being called-in early for a very brief hearing Wednesday 19th July 2017, where-in it was further adjourned to October 2017...(but why?-Ed)...tomorrow mister, tomorrow...
Serious But Funny:...was the TV news ticker thingy across the bottom re police apprehending a dirty perp in a suburban driveway after a long car chase, car-jacking, etc, with no-one badly injured but still probably highly traumatising for all the civilians concerned...whilst the infra-red footage showed the man being taken into custody, the ticker seemed to indicate that police had killed him, Police Coronered Suspect In Driveway...
I am Nick Fletcher and this is my blog...cheers and laters...
Please Note Dear Availees:...that because of the very sensitive nature of the following, I've deliberately tried to tip-toe right around using any names, other than absolutely necessary to describe where/what/why/when, etc...
More About Child Abuse Allegations:...that were put to me and/or that I was asked about back in April 2017, enquiries specifically citing Generations In Jazz (held in May), and how that appears to relate to an article from The Advertiser from April 2017, and as re-produced on Limestone Coast Community News, the Interweb page thingy run by Mt Gambier City Councillor Josh Lynagh...this is an unmitigated disaster that I'll try my best to explain, but always in the contexts that 1) there's often so much deliberate misinformation and/or misreporting and/or partial reporting, and so many incidents overall, etc, etc, that it's often difficult to sort the shizzle from the chaff from the grain, and 2) I've already copped heaps about apparently being responsible for the farcical housing stuff-up with jazz students, etc...but here goes...again, please note that I'm trying to be sensitive to the many elements here...(not least of all to the young woman involved-Ed)...indeed Ed, not least of all to the young woman involved, that I might have her courage...
I believe that this article and the subsequent questions asked of me, refer to an incident or incidents that occurred at Tennison Woods (Catholic) College and did apparently involve a senior figure associated with GIJ but I understand not at GIJ the event itself...so yes, to respond directly to what was asked of me, this may be referring to that specific person and those incidents, which fall with-in that time-frame, etc, but I do not know specifically about the GIJ or the Academy or anything and/or anyone else...please again note that I have specifically not used any names here, not even correctly identifying the Academy, etc, but not least of all because appropriate authorities, eg, the school, SAPol, etc, do know exactly what happened and who's involved...and they knew then too...(knew then?-Ed)...absolutely...
Unless of course it was in reference to a different but near-identical major Child Abuse issue, I vividly recall hearing the Tennison Woods Principal David Mezinec at the time (2010), on the ABC South East Radio, emphatically denying any problem, nothing to see here, followed literally immediately by a senior SAPol officer (Supt Mark Fairney?), nuthin' to see here, and literally with-in 24hrs the rumour had reached my ears about 'what a slut that girl is, and she's done it before, etc'...(oh, so it's definitely a cover-up then-Ed)...what Ed? the Catholic Principal and a senior SAPol officer say it's all fine, and The Rumour says she's a slut...(yeah, so it's a cover-up-Ed)...Ed, are you suggesting that the Principal and the SAPol officer were being deliberately untruthful, and that that 'slut' rumour was immediately and deliberately spread to denigrate and demonise the victim, are you suggesting that that was all quite deliberate and planned to try and cover-up Child Abuse? is that what you're suggesting?...(I believe the truth always suggests itself best, I need suggest nuthin'-Ed)...
Sorry folks, can't remember if I have previously mentioned this particularly bad case of Official Denial and Official Underground Rumour (ODOUR) on this 'ere blog, reckon I might have, whatevs, this is the sort of shizzle, the sort of rank ODOUR I've got just a-bangin' away inside me ol' noggin but am super cautious about addressing...(well this and all the institutonalised pro-paedophile corruption of the St Martins Lutheran School Child Abuse Cover-up-Ed)...and 15 years of that, yeah, cheers, thanks for reminding me...(and 15 years of the same 'Victim Denigration' by rankly corrupt people-Ed)...indeed, and 15 years and this very official Catholic/SAPol/Lutheran/whoevs strategy of Victim Blaming and/or Victim Denigration and/or 'Slut Shaming' to try and cover-up abuse/corruption/whatevs...and apparently this strategy is unfortunately becoming increasingly popular, and hence the segue straight into...
Footy Flings:...have apparently undone the careers of several senior AFL (Australian Football League) officials in the last coupla' weeks, and various 'Sex Scandals' continue to dog our leading 'Football Codes'...apologies, I've barely looked at this stuff, but apparently 2-3 AFL officials (men, married) have resigned due to 'affairs' with junior staffers (female, single), and it's being commented/identified that the young women involved have been publicly exposed and almost viciously targeted or 'Slut Shamed' re their role in these 'affairs'...dunno', don't really care, alleged adults having affairs, whatevs, but the attitude of the response, this Slut Shaming Strategy is a genuine concern...and it's a strategy only too often employed when powerful institutions and/or the men who run them fall foul of their own foolishness...there are concerns that whilst these men, who have established careers, expertise, etc, will likely return to high-profile positions, albeit possibly in different organisations, the young women's career opportunities/potential may be much more drastically affected...
Whatevs the gender, regardless of their marital status, it is a reasonable and professional position to place the onus of responsibility on the senior executive, and I share these concerns that ultimately the young women involved will be the ones who wear the worst of the fall-out, who bear the brunt of this situation...and amid this blizzard of righteous indignation spewing out of the AFL apologies for going back to a particularly bad case, the following is quite graphic and unpleasant, again sorry, but it's worth remembering and in many respects should never be forgotten what happened in Adelaide some 20 years ago when 3 AFL players drugged a young woman at a nightclub, took her into the Parklands adjacent, and raped her...again I've left out the names, but SAPol, etc, know exactly who it was and many will recall I'm sure, and it's probably somewhere on the Interweb...no charges ever laid and the woman openly denigrated as somehow responsible, etc, etc, but then reportedly received a $200,000 'compensation payment'...turns out that one of the players involved had a known history for drugging and assaulting woman...but apparently never charged for any of it...
So when the shreckin' AFL is holding forth about how much they respect woman and we all politely forget/ignore what has actually happened over the years, when all that is ignored, never ever forget that we are talking about big, big bucks here...(mucho mucho dinero?-Ed)...mucho, the AFL is a massive industry...and look at how this Uber-Clown Jeff Kennett, former Victorian Liberal Premier, head honcho at Hawthorn AFL club, and self-appointed head of Beyond Blue, an alleged 'Depression Foundation', check-out how unhinged he got in attacking the young woman who had an affair with the senior Channel 7 executive, as currently going through Court, etc...Lord Jeff let his true colours hang right-out in being publicly and balistically abusive of this young woman, abuse awash with open hostility and his bitter gender-bias...and another painfully seamless segue straight back to the opening paragraphs, because Jeff's trying to get his grubby mits on GIJ, and the thought of that man being involved with anything to do with vulnerable people and/or kids makes my blood run cold...
For F-F-Forestry Sake:...I ain't happy with my own tendency to drift tangentially into unrelated topics...(croutons?-Ed)...and/or be easily distracted...(ooo, look at that over there, it's shiny-Ed)...and feel that I've failed to properly explain the disaster that is the rankly corrupt Lease/Sale of the South East Forestry Estate to OneFortyOne Plantations...so here's goes...
1) was meant to be a '3 Rotation Lease', lasting approx 100years, for which the Rann/Weatherill
Labor government received $670million;
2) when this 'Lease' was signed there was reportedly no Nursery component, until Labor literally
gave 141P the Glencoe Nursery;
3) Forestry SA was meant to manage the SEFE for the first 5 years, with a 'first refusal option'
for another 5, but Labor ended this FSA management after only 3-1/2 years, forcing dozens
of public servants to either join 141P or be effectively unemployed;
4) at this time 'expert opinions' argued that because Labor had now effectively handed full
control of the SEFE to 141P, the trees, the land, Glencoe Nursery, etc, plus all the staff, the
'Intellectual Property', etc, it effectively effected a 'Sale' rather than a 'Lease', and therefore
Labor had 'Sold' the SEFE to 141P for $670m;
5) 'expert opinions' also 'conservatively valued' the trees, land, IP, etc, combined, at $2billion;
6) this puts South Australia's loss immediately at $1.3billion...even wildly parred-back, let's call
it $1b straight, yeah? that's absolute minimum $1billion Rann/Weatherill lost SA;
Floggin'-Off Our Log-Stocks:...this is where the New Shreckin' Adelaide Oval comes in, because it's being widely stated by people like Labor and the SACA/SANFL, etc, etc, whatevs, that this oval has 'payed for itself already'...(well that's if you ignore what Rann/Weatherill did to pay for the damn thing, namely, floggin'-off our shreckin' trees!-Ed)...well quite, and that stuff we have covered thoroughly, but just quickly again...
1) at the 2010 SA State Election, the Liberal Party Labor promised approx $450million for a
'Covered Sport Stadium' on the Rail Yards where Labor has built the New Royal Adelaide
Hospital, and to match that Labor promised (unfunded) to re-vamp the Adelaide Oval;
2) to achieve this re-vamp, Labor promised the SA Cricket Assoc that it would pay-off
SACA's $90m debt, and SACA complied/agreed...this is a $90m bribe, nothing less;
3) this unfunded promise and attached bribe led directly to the immediate SEFE Lease/Sale;
4) the SEFE 'Fire' Sale, for $670million, was voted through SA Parliament the very day after
the SACA meeting that approved accepting the $90m bribe and redevelopment...(well
technically it's a much bigger bribe than that because there's all the new SACA facilities
and swank dining rooms, etc, etc, don't ya' know-Ed)...yes, and the tap-less golden faucets
gushing Moet 24/7, whatevs, but you are correct, the SACA and it's various and often
nefarious associates, acolytes, and attendees have all done very nicely thankyou very much!
Dear Availees:...I believe that the events re the SEFE 'Sale', what motivated it, etc, and the timing and/or chronology of said events, well, either one accepts that the unfunded Labor Adelaide Oval re-vamp forced the SEFE 'Sale', or one doesn't, that that funding somehow came from somewhere else...ultimately though, it's not even relevant given the massive loss re how Labor have conducted that 'Sale'...(I get it, it's basically irrelevant what the $670m was spent on because of the $1billion minimum Labor immediately lost in the process, the $1b absolute minimum that never made it into state coffers-Ed)...spot on Ed, and it is closer to $1.3 billion, that's what I understand to be a reasonable figure...
Dear Availees, Again:...I haven't gone into the details again of what Forestry SA were making profit wise, etc, and what that costs SA annually...($30m clear per year?-Ed)...yeah, $40m maybe, it's money not coming in, whatevs...not gunna' mention that other than to remind y'all of the recent flurry of activity re 141P's massively expanded profit, $120m+, and how that relates to apparent clear-felling of parts of the SEFE, etc, etc...these are realities, these things are not my opinion...(if I may sir?-Ed)...please...(ta', I've just had this niggling annoyance in the back of my head for a while-Ed)...I do not know what that is like, Ed............(anyhoos, re the article in The Border Watch from a few weeks back when 141P's Linda Sewell countered/addressed these 'clear-felling' allegations and 'planting re future log-stocks', etc-Ed)...yes, I do recall...(well in that article Ms Sewell states that 'this year alone we're planting 5million trees'-Ed)...sounds like a lot, sure, but what's your point?...(well Ms Sewell doesn't say and/or the article doesn't say anything about how many trees 141P have already planted, it says 'we're gunna' plant like squillions this year', but neglects to mention how many thus far-Ed)............
(Well, and I just thought, given that the whole debate is about appropriate logging/clearing rates, etc, and very specifically concerns about the apparent failure to re-plant enough now, about 'experts' concerns re the future of log supplies, etc, as it relates to low planting rates now, etc, etc, well I thought 141P would be bang-up for a bit of 'hey, in the 5 years since The Sale we've whacked-in approx 12million trees, we've planted so many damn trees like you wouldn't believe it'-Ed).........(I just thought that it was a bit odd not to mention it at all, that's all-Ed).........(hello?-Ed)...sorry, sorry, just can't quite hear you clearly for the retreating resonations of that resounding clang! right there where a very large penny dropped, a penny worth $670m...but wait, we're getting an email, no, sorry, a tweet...
Best Planting Regime Eva? Even That Guy There Doesn't Believe It:...it does seem rather odd an omission, either 141P not stating and/or TBW not asking and/or not reporting how many trees planted thus far...it's a major part of what the debate is about, of what that article is about, but ne'ery a mention...dear availees, I'll try to check on exactly what 141P have and/or haven't planted thus far, and I'll get back to ya's...
Tomorrow: More Loose Ends re Wind Turbines
And some Court stuff...(yeah, what is happenin' with that?-Ed)...'cos I've been in Court again this week...(this week? I thought it was 5 more days in August?-Ed)...it was, until I got a phonecall Monday re being called-in early for a very brief hearing Wednesday 19th July 2017, where-in it was further adjourned to October 2017...(but why?-Ed)...tomorrow mister, tomorrow...
Serious But Funny:...was the TV news ticker thingy across the bottom re police apprehending a dirty perp in a suburban driveway after a long car chase, car-jacking, etc, with no-one badly injured but still probably highly traumatising for all the civilians concerned...whilst the infra-red footage showed the man being taken into custody, the ticker seemed to indicate that police had killed him, Police Coronered Suspect In Driveway...
I am Nick Fletcher and this is my blog...cheers and laters...
Thursday, July 13, 2017
Winter Binds Us All Together, Powerless In Still Chill Weather
Winter binds us all together, powerless in still chill weather
Because Wind Turbines are altogether f***ing useless in still chill weather.
...(sob, that's just beautiful man-Ed)...cheers, one tries to bring a little Art to one's Anger...(witty word play, sniff, that perfectly encapsulates the intricate, sob, yet obvious realities-Ed)...as I say, one does one's best...(and the, sniff, almost inspired use, sob, of an emphatically and exquisitely semi-deleted gratuitous expletive, wahhh, it's beautiful man, sniff, it's just beautiful, wahhhhhh-Ed)...ok ok, get on with it, cue the intro montage.........(ummm, sniff, we don't have an opening montage-Ed)...well, just play the music then...(ummm-Ed)...no music? right, just cut to the witty word-smithery and insightfully inspired political discourse...(ummm-Ed)...damn you Ed, dear availees, here's the bloody blog...
Howdy to the USofA, Argentina, Canada, and Ireland, and to everyone else elsewhere, welcome all to TMGI and the latest farcical Power Failure from the rankly corrupt and fundamentally incompetent pro-paedophile Mike Rann/Jay Weatherill Labor Party, a massive $50m-$100million 'Lithium Battery' to be built at the Horndale Wind Turbine Industrial Estate near Jamestown...and it appears that it's going on the same property as the host of at least some of the Wind Turbines...(nice little earner for that landowner, particularly if they have got Turbines as well-Ed)...indeed, a landowner whom I saw saying that they decided with 24hrs notice and virtually without looking at it, etc...
Reckon This Helps SA? Bollocks:...because the French-owned Hornsdale WTIE is, to my understanding, contracted to provide 'Green Energy' to Canberra, some 1200kms away as the crow flies, to help achieve this ridiculous Renewable Energy Target nonsense...I fully support genuine efforts to Reduce, Re-use, Re-cycle, whatever it is, and specifically when it comes to pollution and other environmental degradations that we humans inflict on the environment, but setting arbitrary RET numbers not grounded in realities of Base Load Production, well it's all very brittle and terribly fragile and altogether vulnerable and will inevitably cause us massive grief again, and not just in SA...(so where does Canberra get it's 'Leccy when the wind ain't blowin'?-Ed)...well exactly...(what?-Ed)...well exactly, where does Canberra otherwise access any power let alone it's 'Green Power', and has this push toward 'Renewable Energy' caused the recent huge spike in Canberrian power prices?...
As I understand it, the Hornsdale WTIE just dumps whatevs electricity it does produce straight into 'The Grid', supposedly a 'National Electricity Grid', and Canberrians then 'buy' that 'Leccy with 'Green Certificates' that are related to their RET (20% of production I think, here in SA it's at 40% and rising)...(does that '40%' include all the times that Turbines are non-functional or under-producing due to unfavourable weather conditions?-Ed)...well exactly, but we digress a bit, because the RET percentage stuff is important, but let's look at the realities first, the Ideologies after that, and then the actual percentages...(fair enough...but I do have a question-Ed)...sure...(those power-line pylons that collapsed back in September 2016, supposedly a critical element in the State-wide Blackout 2016, some of those lines weren't from Hornsdale to Canberra?-Ed)..errr, dunno, I'll try to find out...(and is that battery going at Hornsdale to support that line and/or to back-up Canberra's supply and give them the 15-20mins they need to switch to their other suppliers?-Ed)...wow, unfortunately that makes perfectly reasonable sense, but I really dunno...(sure, just cobbling together some random facts, just a vague theory-Ed)...an unsettlingly plausible theory might I say...(but a theory none-the-less-Ed)...indeed...more tomorrow...
Watt New Lunacy?:...is a title I've used before, but there's our illustrious leader, Jay 'The Shiny Man' Weatherill, blithely monotoning his way through the rhetoric like some sort of lunatic Hypno-Toad (from Futurama)...(hasn't Jay Baby done voice modulation training and basic psychology, etc, all with a view to being soporifically deceitful with his attempts to redefine the fine mess his shreckin' Labor Party have got us into?-Ed)...apparently, all that shizzle, from psychology to body language/posture, eg, always look in one place and don't blink, and of course, never change the pitch/speed/tone of your voice, etc, etc...I ain't no expert, but it's pretty easy to spot...(I remember the September 2016 State-wide Black-out press conferences and Shaky Jay, glasses on, couldn't handball fast enough to Energy Minister Tom Koutsontonis, who equally quickly referred it back to Jay, as they repeatedly intercepted each others questions, didn't answer them anyway, and then flicked back again-Ed)...hilarious...
Someone's Been On the Lithium Alright:...let's never forget that the Jay Weatherill Labor state government started this 'World's Biggest Battery' farce off the back of a Twitter-feed joke between Elon Musk (Tesla) and his mate...this is where SA Labor gets it's Energy Policy from, Twitter...after 16 years of Rann/Weatherill Labor's rank pro-paedophile corruption and epidemic levels of public Service Nepotism, and all the rank incompetence that that unleashes, etc, etc, etc, Labor have taken us to the world's most expensive electricity if and when we can get that power...in 2017 we are wholly vulnerable to the whims of the weather, and have taken with us are those whom reckon they'll be gettin' their Green Leccy from SA...I understand that Canberra plans to go 100% Renewable Energy by 2020...(ludicrous-Ed)...and achieve that by getting 40% of it's Green Leccy from Hornsdale...what will Canberra do when there's 0% Production at Hornsdale?...
Federal (and SA) Labor's Mark Butler was recently on the ABC Radio blathering away about how this ludicrous battery set-up has 'solved South Australia's energy problems'...(what a lotta' rot!-Ed)...well indeed, and just another example of just how deliberately moronic idealogues can be when trying to justify/excuse their latest act of sub-intelligent dickheadery...I'll make it simple for those highly intelligent folk like myself who still get things wrong...(hang on, so you're saying that although you are a reasonably intelligent person, you still make mistakes, and so when you're taking the piss outta' people, as in that last sentence, you're also politely mocking yourself?-Ed)...indeed, I know some very intelligent people who literally will not see the failings, the massive and unavoidable failings with Wind Turbines, but we digress...
On July 1st 2017 good ol' SA, the Paedophile State, officially became No.1...(woohoo, well done SA, No.1, I knew we could do it, I just knew we were special-Ed)...No.1 as the most expensive Electricity Market on the planet...(ahhh, shhhh-No.2s!-Ed)...well exactly, good ol' SA, where being No.1 means being right in the No.2s...on every other shreckin' list we're last, Economy, Unemployment, Health Services...(and try livin' outside of the gilded cage that is a wholly self-obsessed Adelaide, where-in everything in this State gets sacrificed to fund Adelaide!-Ed)...well exactly Ed, hardly a jingoistic and parochial catch-phrase, SA is run to fund Labor's pork-barrelling efforts in inner-Adelaide suburbs to get themselves re-elected, etc, etc...
Turbines, Not A Fan:...although, maybe, just maybe a fan is the solution...(oh gourd, here we go-Ed)...no no, stay with me...(like I gotta' choice!-Ed)...because pre Premier Jay 'The Shiny Man' Weatherill, it was Mad Mike 'The White Elephant In The Room' Rann and his obsession with constructing massive monuments to his own incompetence and corruption, eg, the 'New Royal Adelaide Hospital', the 'New Adelaide Oval'...(and didn't Premier Mike do a huge song-and-dance because wasn't Olympic Dam gunna' be the biggest mine or the most somethingest something, whatevs?-Ed)...yeah, that was a beauty, but they're thick on the ground here-abouts, and he and Ray-Jay are just fully erect to every opportunity to farcically spruik Adelaide as the centre of the known Universe and whack-up some stupendously superficial and superfluous structure and although it's literally always complete dribble, say it's 'the biggest in the whole world'...(so?!-Ed)...your idea, remember? the World's Biggest Fan?...
Turning The Problem On Itself:...no, it's not a paragraph about how well I've done in dismantling the alleged 'case' against me re the ICAC charges, etc, using with brutal effect the ICAC's and the ABC's and SAPol's own documents/evidence/testimony against them, for over 2 years now, no, it's not about that...(well thus far it is-Ed)...no, it's a chance for Ed to share his superb idea that will undoubtedly turn the debate on it's head...(ah, cheers-Ed)...fire away...(sure, ahh, it occurred to me that we're missing the most obvious solution re a lack of energy production due to a lack of wind-Ed)...I love this bit...(the solution being the World's Biggest Fan blowin' on Hornsdale...don't need no battery...well except to run the fan...yeah, I haven't really though this through properly-Ed)...well that's the No.1 criteria for an Energy Policy in South Australia, not thinking it through properly...(yeah, it's a stupid idea-Ed)...nah nah, don't give up yet, it's all there, the World's Biggest Battery Fan...
(Eureka, I've Got It!-Ed):...go...(Perpetual Energy-Ed)...what?...(Perpetual Energy, point the WBF straight into the Turbines and use the power created by the WBF blowing on the Wind Turbines, use that Leccy to power the WBF-Ed)...oh my gourd, that actually makes sense in a truly bizarre way...(or even better, just use half the Turbines, which have motors, use half as fans to blow on the others, like you said, 'turn the problem on itself'-Ed)...nice reverse segue sir...(but yeah, the World's Biggest Fan, that's an idea what's got legs I reckon-Ed)...maybe, maybe not, because, whilst you're nicely close to the mark there with your 'World's Biggest Fan' idea, it's a cracker no doubt, but I reckon I got the cure for what ails us...
Call Me Iva Biggun:...what SA needs to invest in next, having bought a $50m+ battery, the World's Biggest Battery, now we all need to invest in 1) the World's Biggest Torch, 2) the World's Biggest Box Of Matches, and of course 3) the World's Biggest Candle, then it's easy as 1,2,3...(whaaa?-Ed)...because when the lights go out, and they will go out, we can shove our WBB into our WBT and quickly find the WBBOM and get the WBC lit before the WBB runs out...(how long will all that take?-Ed)...well apparently the WBB, this wonder what gunna' save us from the power goin' out again, this WBB what's gunna' protect us from the dark and the cold and most dangerously, the heat, that WBB reportedly lasts 30 minutes tops under ideal conditions, more likely 15-20...(so we'd have 15mins say to get the WBB in the WBT and get the WBC wick lit wit' de' WBBOM-Ed)...
Fun With Da' Mental Realities:...because I'm sick of watching otherwise intelligent people's eyes rollin' back in their heads as they furiously refuse to challenge their beliefs/support of Turbines, who refuse to acknowledge let alone actually apply the simple truths re the failings of Wind Turbines...
1) obviously, No Wind - No Power...and this means when it's millpond-still across SA during 40C+ heatwaves, or as happened this month past, when it's crisp and chill and very, very still...for days at a time...(solar panels-Ed)...and at nights?...(batteries-Ed)...which you recharge with?...(mmm, I take your point, on a hot summer's night when the beach is burnin', or there's fog rollin' in 'cross the sand, there's little or no power being generated to re-charge anything with-Ed)...well firstly, apologies to Meatloaf, but yes, whether the weather is stinkin' hot and still or freezin' cold and still, it's still still...and when it's still, there's no power produced...
Dear Availees:...check whichever Interweb site you want re the Energy Production from Wind Turbine Industrial Estates across South Australia for the past 6-8 weeks...(or rather, the lack of production-Ed)...well indeed, that's the point...we've had weeks of unseasonally very calm and dry weather, cold calm weather, and there's been a respondent/resultant massive drop in Energy Production...No Wind, No Power...(and in Summer it's even more problematic because in Winter we seldom dip below -2C or thereabouts, but excessive and extended Heat Exposure courtesy of an average Adelaide 40C+ heatwave is even more of a killer-Ed)...yeah, even here in the South East it's the heat that'll do for ya'...and during said heatwaves, Regulators/Operators/Whoevs are forced to do Rationing or Controlled Rolling Blackouts, whatevs, to protect fragile and fractured Production and/or Supply Systems, Rationing often prettied-up by being called 'Load Shedding'...
Problem 2:...is that Turbines also don't work when there's too much wind, because they have to be shut-off...no wind, too much wind...these are simple truths...Turbines produce no power when conditions are not suitable...which leads to Problem 3:...that Turbines are also supposed to be shut-down during Extreme Fire Danger Days because it's impossible to combat a fire in a Turbine 100+meters off the ground...I am genuinely concerned that these EFDD restrictions can and will be ignored due to this obsession with forcing Wind Turbines on South Australians...
Yeah sure I've made some stupid jokes in this post, but it is naive in the extreme and certainly wrong to solely blame Wind Turbines for the disastrous and genuinely deadly Leccy problems we are having now and will continue to have into the future...the ideology and rank Labor corruption re Turbines certainly hasn't helped, eg, the 2011 Development Plan Amendment that effectively denies Turbine opponents access to Court appeal processes, etc...so much more to cover here, the battery nonsense, gas prices, etc, etc, so more...
Tomorrow: The Beast Unburdened
Dear Availees:...in previous posts I have repeatedly referred to issues that I felt I couldn't discuss...(and a couple you've been asked to not discuss-Ed)...yeah, a couple, but usually it's a self-imposed restriction...(fair enough-Ed)...but now 2 specific issues have been publicly exposed/discussed so's I'm gunna' jump right into those...and one is Mayor Andrew Lee refusing to pay a building contractor, and the second refers unfortunately to enquiries made of me back in April 2017, questions re 'the alleged Child Abuse cover-up at Generations in Jazz' (paraphrase but damn close)...and before y'all jazz lovers lose ya' syncopated shizzle at me for daring to question the beloved GIJ, I'm gunna' jump right on the sanctimonious outrage of all involved...(orrr strewth! can you imagine?...'ooo ooo, that bloody prick Nick Fletcher's havin' a go at GIJ now, what a bastard'-Ed)...absolutely, so I'm gunna' stomp politely all over that shizzle and say that it appears people were asking me about this because of that article that Mt Gambier City Councillor Josh Lynagh put on his shreckin' Limestone Coast News web-page...
I referred to this previously, but check it out for ya'selves, Limestone Coast Community News, April 7th 2017, it was there last time I looked, posting/referencing the article from The Advertiser story that ran days before...and I believe that the story run by ABC South East, September 14th 2012 re a letter sent to Tennison Woods College parents refers to this same issue/incident...problem is, there's so much 'Child Abuse' stuff going on, reported or otherwise, and when reported it's in such vague terms that it's often difficult to know exactly which case/incident is actually being referred to...I've tried to stand right back from this one, and duly do consider that this is exactly what's happened, Josh Lynagh, Cr Lynagh has for some unknown reason decided to randomly whack that on his LCCN website, and then people have asked me 'is this about that Child Abuse thing at GIJ?'...tomorrow...
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PSssst:...hey, pssst, availees, over here...psst...just between you and me and everyone else who already knows anyway, I nearly forgot to mention as indeed have they, that Weatherill Labor has also invested in $100million worth of Diesel Generators to jam-up the gaping holes in their alleged Power Plan...there's so much goin' on here, more tomorrow as well as the other stuff...($100m for diesel back-ups?-Ed)...yep...(on top of a $50m, 20min battery?-Ed)...well probably next to it rather than actually on top of it, but yes...(you idiot...$100m diesel back-up for the $50m+ battery and another $350million for a State-owned 'Emergency' Gas-Fired Power Station?-Ed)...yep, like I said, more tomorrow...(cheers-Ed)..laters...
Because Wind Turbines are altogether f***ing useless in still chill weather.
...(sob, that's just beautiful man-Ed)...cheers, one tries to bring a little Art to one's Anger...(witty word play, sniff, that perfectly encapsulates the intricate, sob, yet obvious realities-Ed)...as I say, one does one's best...(and the, sniff, almost inspired use, sob, of an emphatically and exquisitely semi-deleted gratuitous expletive, wahhh, it's beautiful man, sniff, it's just beautiful, wahhhhhh-Ed)...ok ok, get on with it, cue the intro montage.........(ummm, sniff, we don't have an opening montage-Ed)...well, just play the music then...(ummm-Ed)...no music? right, just cut to the witty word-smithery and insightfully inspired political discourse...(ummm-Ed)...damn you Ed, dear availees, here's the bloody blog...
Howdy to the USofA, Argentina, Canada, and Ireland, and to everyone else elsewhere, welcome all to TMGI and the latest farcical Power Failure from the rankly corrupt and fundamentally incompetent pro-paedophile Mike Rann/Jay Weatherill Labor Party, a massive $50m-$100million 'Lithium Battery' to be built at the Horndale Wind Turbine Industrial Estate near Jamestown...and it appears that it's going on the same property as the host of at least some of the Wind Turbines...(nice little earner for that landowner, particularly if they have got Turbines as well-Ed)...indeed, a landowner whom I saw saying that they decided with 24hrs notice and virtually without looking at it, etc...
Reckon This Helps SA? Bollocks:...because the French-owned Hornsdale WTIE is, to my understanding, contracted to provide 'Green Energy' to Canberra, some 1200kms away as the crow flies, to help achieve this ridiculous Renewable Energy Target nonsense...I fully support genuine efforts to Reduce, Re-use, Re-cycle, whatever it is, and specifically when it comes to pollution and other environmental degradations that we humans inflict on the environment, but setting arbitrary RET numbers not grounded in realities of Base Load Production, well it's all very brittle and terribly fragile and altogether vulnerable and will inevitably cause us massive grief again, and not just in SA...(so where does Canberra get it's 'Leccy when the wind ain't blowin'?-Ed)...well exactly...(what?-Ed)...well exactly, where does Canberra otherwise access any power let alone it's 'Green Power', and has this push toward 'Renewable Energy' caused the recent huge spike in Canberrian power prices?...
As I understand it, the Hornsdale WTIE just dumps whatevs electricity it does produce straight into 'The Grid', supposedly a 'National Electricity Grid', and Canberrians then 'buy' that 'Leccy with 'Green Certificates' that are related to their RET (20% of production I think, here in SA it's at 40% and rising)...(does that '40%' include all the times that Turbines are non-functional or under-producing due to unfavourable weather conditions?-Ed)...well exactly, but we digress a bit, because the RET percentage stuff is important, but let's look at the realities first, the Ideologies after that, and then the actual percentages...(fair enough...but I do have a question-Ed)...sure...(those power-line pylons that collapsed back in September 2016, supposedly a critical element in the State-wide Blackout 2016, some of those lines weren't from Hornsdale to Canberra?-Ed)..errr, dunno, I'll try to find out...(and is that battery going at Hornsdale to support that line and/or to back-up Canberra's supply and give them the 15-20mins they need to switch to their other suppliers?-Ed)...wow, unfortunately that makes perfectly reasonable sense, but I really dunno...(sure, just cobbling together some random facts, just a vague theory-Ed)...an unsettlingly plausible theory might I say...(but a theory none-the-less-Ed)...indeed...more tomorrow...
Watt New Lunacy?:...is a title I've used before, but there's our illustrious leader, Jay 'The Shiny Man' Weatherill, blithely monotoning his way through the rhetoric like some sort of lunatic Hypno-Toad (from Futurama)...(hasn't Jay Baby done voice modulation training and basic psychology, etc, all with a view to being soporifically deceitful with his attempts to redefine the fine mess his shreckin' Labor Party have got us into?-Ed)...apparently, all that shizzle, from psychology to body language/posture, eg, always look in one place and don't blink, and of course, never change the pitch/speed/tone of your voice, etc, etc...I ain't no expert, but it's pretty easy to spot...(I remember the September 2016 State-wide Black-out press conferences and Shaky Jay, glasses on, couldn't handball fast enough to Energy Minister Tom Koutsontonis, who equally quickly referred it back to Jay, as they repeatedly intercepted each others questions, didn't answer them anyway, and then flicked back again-Ed)...hilarious...
Someone's Been On the Lithium Alright:...let's never forget that the Jay Weatherill Labor state government started this 'World's Biggest Battery' farce off the back of a Twitter-feed joke between Elon Musk (Tesla) and his mate...this is where SA Labor gets it's Energy Policy from, Twitter...after 16 years of Rann/Weatherill Labor's rank pro-paedophile corruption and epidemic levels of public Service Nepotism, and all the rank incompetence that that unleashes, etc, etc, etc, Labor have taken us to the world's most expensive electricity if and when we can get that power...in 2017 we are wholly vulnerable to the whims of the weather, and have taken with us are those whom reckon they'll be gettin' their Green Leccy from SA...I understand that Canberra plans to go 100% Renewable Energy by 2020...(ludicrous-Ed)...and achieve that by getting 40% of it's Green Leccy from Hornsdale...what will Canberra do when there's 0% Production at Hornsdale?...
Federal (and SA) Labor's Mark Butler was recently on the ABC Radio blathering away about how this ludicrous battery set-up has 'solved South Australia's energy problems'...(what a lotta' rot!-Ed)...well indeed, and just another example of just how deliberately moronic idealogues can be when trying to justify/excuse their latest act of sub-intelligent dickheadery...I'll make it simple for those highly intelligent folk like myself who still get things wrong...(hang on, so you're saying that although you are a reasonably intelligent person, you still make mistakes, and so when you're taking the piss outta' people, as in that last sentence, you're also politely mocking yourself?-Ed)...indeed, I know some very intelligent people who literally will not see the failings, the massive and unavoidable failings with Wind Turbines, but we digress...
On July 1st 2017 good ol' SA, the Paedophile State, officially became No.1...(woohoo, well done SA, No.1, I knew we could do it, I just knew we were special-Ed)...No.1 as the most expensive Electricity Market on the planet...(ahhh, shhhh-No.2s!-Ed)...well exactly, good ol' SA, where being No.1 means being right in the No.2s...on every other shreckin' list we're last, Economy, Unemployment, Health Services...(and try livin' outside of the gilded cage that is a wholly self-obsessed Adelaide, where-in everything in this State gets sacrificed to fund Adelaide!-Ed)...well exactly Ed, hardly a jingoistic and parochial catch-phrase, SA is run to fund Labor's pork-barrelling efforts in inner-Adelaide suburbs to get themselves re-elected, etc, etc...
Turbines, Not A Fan:...although, maybe, just maybe a fan is the solution...(oh gourd, here we go-Ed)...no no, stay with me...(like I gotta' choice!-Ed)...because pre Premier Jay 'The Shiny Man' Weatherill, it was Mad Mike 'The White Elephant In The Room' Rann and his obsession with constructing massive monuments to his own incompetence and corruption, eg, the 'New Royal Adelaide Hospital', the 'New Adelaide Oval'...(and didn't Premier Mike do a huge song-and-dance because wasn't Olympic Dam gunna' be the biggest mine or the most somethingest something, whatevs?-Ed)...yeah, that was a beauty, but they're thick on the ground here-abouts, and he and Ray-Jay are just fully erect to every opportunity to farcically spruik Adelaide as the centre of the known Universe and whack-up some stupendously superficial and superfluous structure and although it's literally always complete dribble, say it's 'the biggest in the whole world'...(so?!-Ed)...your idea, remember? the World's Biggest Fan?...
Turning The Problem On Itself:...no, it's not a paragraph about how well I've done in dismantling the alleged 'case' against me re the ICAC charges, etc, using with brutal effect the ICAC's and the ABC's and SAPol's own documents/evidence/testimony against them, for over 2 years now, no, it's not about that...(well thus far it is-Ed)...no, it's a chance for Ed to share his superb idea that will undoubtedly turn the debate on it's head...(ah, cheers-Ed)...fire away...(sure, ahh, it occurred to me that we're missing the most obvious solution re a lack of energy production due to a lack of wind-Ed)...I love this bit...(the solution being the World's Biggest Fan blowin' on Hornsdale...don't need no battery...well except to run the fan...yeah, I haven't really though this through properly-Ed)...well that's the No.1 criteria for an Energy Policy in South Australia, not thinking it through properly...(yeah, it's a stupid idea-Ed)...nah nah, don't give up yet, it's all there, the World's Biggest Battery Fan...
(Eureka, I've Got It!-Ed):...go...(Perpetual Energy-Ed)...what?...(Perpetual Energy, point the WBF straight into the Turbines and use the power created by the WBF blowing on the Wind Turbines, use that Leccy to power the WBF-Ed)...oh my gourd, that actually makes sense in a truly bizarre way...(or even better, just use half the Turbines, which have motors, use half as fans to blow on the others, like you said, 'turn the problem on itself'-Ed)...nice reverse segue sir...(but yeah, the World's Biggest Fan, that's an idea what's got legs I reckon-Ed)...maybe, maybe not, because, whilst you're nicely close to the mark there with your 'World's Biggest Fan' idea, it's a cracker no doubt, but I reckon I got the cure for what ails us...
Call Me Iva Biggun:...what SA needs to invest in next, having bought a $50m+ battery, the World's Biggest Battery, now we all need to invest in 1) the World's Biggest Torch, 2) the World's Biggest Box Of Matches, and of course 3) the World's Biggest Candle, then it's easy as 1,2,3...(whaaa?-Ed)...because when the lights go out, and they will go out, we can shove our WBB into our WBT and quickly find the WBBOM and get the WBC lit before the WBB runs out...(how long will all that take?-Ed)...well apparently the WBB, this wonder what gunna' save us from the power goin' out again, this WBB what's gunna' protect us from the dark and the cold and most dangerously, the heat, that WBB reportedly lasts 30 minutes tops under ideal conditions, more likely 15-20...(so we'd have 15mins say to get the WBB in the WBT and get the WBC wick lit wit' de' WBBOM-Ed)...
Fun With Da' Mental Realities:...because I'm sick of watching otherwise intelligent people's eyes rollin' back in their heads as they furiously refuse to challenge their beliefs/support of Turbines, who refuse to acknowledge let alone actually apply the simple truths re the failings of Wind Turbines...
1) obviously, No Wind - No Power...and this means when it's millpond-still across SA during 40C+ heatwaves, or as happened this month past, when it's crisp and chill and very, very still...for days at a time...(solar panels-Ed)...and at nights?...(batteries-Ed)...which you recharge with?...(mmm, I take your point, on a hot summer's night when the beach is burnin', or there's fog rollin' in 'cross the sand, there's little or no power being generated to re-charge anything with-Ed)...well firstly, apologies to Meatloaf, but yes, whether the weather is stinkin' hot and still or freezin' cold and still, it's still still...and when it's still, there's no power produced...
Dear Availees:...check whichever Interweb site you want re the Energy Production from Wind Turbine Industrial Estates across South Australia for the past 6-8 weeks...(or rather, the lack of production-Ed)...well indeed, that's the point...we've had weeks of unseasonally very calm and dry weather, cold calm weather, and there's been a respondent/resultant massive drop in Energy Production...No Wind, No Power...(and in Summer it's even more problematic because in Winter we seldom dip below -2C or thereabouts, but excessive and extended Heat Exposure courtesy of an average Adelaide 40C+ heatwave is even more of a killer-Ed)...yeah, even here in the South East it's the heat that'll do for ya'...and during said heatwaves, Regulators/Operators/Whoevs are forced to do Rationing or Controlled Rolling Blackouts, whatevs, to protect fragile and fractured Production and/or Supply Systems, Rationing often prettied-up by being called 'Load Shedding'...
Problem 2:...is that Turbines also don't work when there's too much wind, because they have to be shut-off...no wind, too much wind...these are simple truths...Turbines produce no power when conditions are not suitable...which leads to Problem 3:...that Turbines are also supposed to be shut-down during Extreme Fire Danger Days because it's impossible to combat a fire in a Turbine 100+meters off the ground...I am genuinely concerned that these EFDD restrictions can and will be ignored due to this obsession with forcing Wind Turbines on South Australians...
Yeah sure I've made some stupid jokes in this post, but it is naive in the extreme and certainly wrong to solely blame Wind Turbines for the disastrous and genuinely deadly Leccy problems we are having now and will continue to have into the future...the ideology and rank Labor corruption re Turbines certainly hasn't helped, eg, the 2011 Development Plan Amendment that effectively denies Turbine opponents access to Court appeal processes, etc...so much more to cover here, the battery nonsense, gas prices, etc, etc, so more...
Tomorrow: The Beast Unburdened
Dear Availees:...in previous posts I have repeatedly referred to issues that I felt I couldn't discuss...(and a couple you've been asked to not discuss-Ed)...yeah, a couple, but usually it's a self-imposed restriction...(fair enough-Ed)...but now 2 specific issues have been publicly exposed/discussed so's I'm gunna' jump right into those...and one is Mayor Andrew Lee refusing to pay a building contractor, and the second refers unfortunately to enquiries made of me back in April 2017, questions re 'the alleged Child Abuse cover-up at Generations in Jazz' (paraphrase but damn close)...and before y'all jazz lovers lose ya' syncopated shizzle at me for daring to question the beloved GIJ, I'm gunna' jump right on the sanctimonious outrage of all involved...(orrr strewth! can you imagine?...'ooo ooo, that bloody prick Nick Fletcher's havin' a go at GIJ now, what a bastard'-Ed)...absolutely, so I'm gunna' stomp politely all over that shizzle and say that it appears people were asking me about this because of that article that Mt Gambier City Councillor Josh Lynagh put on his shreckin' Limestone Coast News web-page...
I referred to this previously, but check it out for ya'selves, Limestone Coast Community News, April 7th 2017, it was there last time I looked, posting/referencing the article from The Advertiser story that ran days before...and I believe that the story run by ABC South East, September 14th 2012 re a letter sent to Tennison Woods College parents refers to this same issue/incident...problem is, there's so much 'Child Abuse' stuff going on, reported or otherwise, and when reported it's in such vague terms that it's often difficult to know exactly which case/incident is actually being referred to...I've tried to stand right back from this one, and duly do consider that this is exactly what's happened, Josh Lynagh, Cr Lynagh has for some unknown reason decided to randomly whack that on his LCCN website, and then people have asked me 'is this about that Child Abuse thing at GIJ?'...tomorrow...
I am Nick Fletcher and this is my blog...cheers and laters...
PSssst:...hey, pssst, availees, over here...psst...just between you and me and everyone else who already knows anyway, I nearly forgot to mention as indeed have they, that Weatherill Labor has also invested in $100million worth of Diesel Generators to jam-up the gaping holes in their alleged Power Plan...there's so much goin' on here, more tomorrow as well as the other stuff...($100m for diesel back-ups?-Ed)...yep...(on top of a $50m, 20min battery?-Ed)...well probably next to it rather than actually on top of it, but yes...(you idiot...$100m diesel back-up for the $50m+ battery and another $350million for a State-owned 'Emergency' Gas-Fired Power Station?-Ed)...yep, like I said, more tomorrow...(cheers-Ed)..laters...
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