Farmers Fightback

[Aidan Morrison @FootnotesGuy]

No one could sit through what I just saw and argue that farming communities want renewables.

[Aidan Morrison @FootnotesGuy]

Queensland has... just a breath of wind. 6.7%

But that's not really any to share. Even scaled up, it's less than a quarter of what they can get with it blows.

Overall, the idea of having big north-south high voltage interconnection capacity is completely debunked.

You have to build the grid for the worst moments. And in the end, at the worst moments for any state, it's most likely that it's pretty bad for the others.

The idea of billions of dollars in transmission being well-spent because they might help share around one state's abundance when they have a lot, and others have little, was just a thought-bubble, and a really dumb one.

In practice, we have to have enough local storage and firming capacity for every state. Renewables fundamentally don't change the value of interconnection, and how much is ideal to have in a grid.

The vision of the 'Integrated System Plan' of a giant backbone lies in tatters.
4/4

[Pauline Hanson 🇦🇺 @PaulineHansonOz]

Yesterday in South Australia, the wind stopped blowing and the state nearly ran out of power.

Prices spiked to the maximum cap under law, and it would have cost someone in Adelaide nearly $5 just to boil a kettle.

This is our future under the net-zero delusion, blackouts and unaffordable power bills. South Australia was meant to be the example for the rest of Australia to follow on wind and solar, how's that working out?

It's time to ditch the net-zero nonsense, build coal and nuclear and bring down the cost of living for Australians.

[Farmers Fightback @FarmersFightbac]

The government refuses to listen to farmers. So we did - and it's devastating!
We went around to our neighbours and asked the people of outback Victoria what building a monstrous transmission line through the food bowl of this state would do to their farms.

[Farmers Fightback @FarmersFightbac]

Snowy 2.0 never stacked up, NEM Link (transmission lines including VNI-WEST, WRL, HumeLink, Marinus Link) never stacked up. Look forward to reading your paper @FootnotesGuy

[Aidan Morrison @FootnotesGuy]

Working on a major paper. Gonna take longer than I’d hoped. I just keep discovering things. The picture gets clearer. But bigger. And then there’s more that needs filling in.

Late night reflections.

[Wimmera Mallee Environmental & Ag Protect Assoc @MalleeAg71414]

2/6/26 Little sun and no wind is not a good combination. ZERO electricity output from Murra Warra this morning, Stockyard HIL Zero and Goldern Plains ZERO. 10 times wind turbines ZERO, 1000 ZERO, INFINITE INCREASE IN WIND TURBINES STILL ZERO electricity output. Poor policy by government.
#energytransition #cleanenergy #windfarm #solarfarm #electricity #intermittentpower #variablerateenergy #netzero #scam #auspol #costofliving #energycrisis

[Farmers Fightback @FarmersFightbac]

Iberdrola paid zero corporate tax.....

[Wimmera Mallee Environmental & Ag Protect Assoc @MalleeAg71414]

"So it follows, rather than a green energy super power, Australia is on track to become a welfare super power. Where a cascading list of industries require subsidies to stay a float. This system can work for a while, but eventually the government will run out of other people's money to keep it going.
More tax anyone?"

#Iberdrola #cleanenergy #energytransition
https://t.co/2Mf5wetBOk

[Farmers Fightback @FarmersFightbac]

COMPULSORY ACQUISITION... THE VULTURES ARE ALWAYS CIRCLING OUR FARMS

Take action stand today> https://t.co/NnbUOkdCju

This is what compulsory acquisition looks like.

The government announces it's taking your farm — and before the ink is dry, the vultures start circling.

[Aidan Morrison @FootnotesGuy]

This article from @mcranston1 is doing the rounds. So needs a 🧵to look into the source document from the Productivity Commission (PC).

The PC have really tried (and thankfully failed) to whitewash this damning but predictable result, claiming the benefits are coming soon. 1/

[Farmers Fightback @FarmersFightbac]

@FootnotesGuy Exactly

[Farmers Fightback @FarmersFightbac]

Back Aussie farmers today > https://t.co/UJayBGdbAs

THIS IS ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT HOW FOREIGN BILLIONAIRES ARE PILFERING AUSSIE FARMS

[Aidan Morrison @FootnotesGuy]

A week ago, Grattan released a report, called "Out of gas".

I think it's something quite profound and awe-inspiring to behold. This is the last gasp of the credulous climate absolutists.

Like seeing the last Thylacine, or Dodo.

Grattan now occupies this exquisite remnant habitat of deep-Melbourne-progressive-globalist-elite-academia. They aren't aware this habitat doesn't actually have a place in the new political world order.

They're smart enough and honest enough to know that the transition required to switch from fossil-fuels to renewable-electrified systems will require massive costs and coersion to bring about.

And they're honest enough to look you in the eye, and state in plain language that it should and must be done anyway.

Because climate targets are paramount, right?

They show absolutely no awareness of the enormous betrayal that the mainstream would sense (if they read long academic reports) at the admission that the project is expensive, and requires economic pain and impingement of liberties to accomplish.

It was always meant to be an initiative to reduce cost-of living pressures, and usher in new industrial productivity, right?

The whole paper is weirdly oblivious to dominant policy mindsets, variously more (or less) intelligent and honest, which their position fails to cohere with:

There's the dumb (or dishonest) transition advocates who persist in the narrative that electrification actually costs less than traditional energy. The market will get things done, if only we let it, or maybe just nudge it to get it unstuck. But really costs are lower, and people will wake up and adopt the right preferences imminently, mostly driven by the superiority and increased affordability of green alternatives. This is D'Ambrosio, Bowen, or Kean. But this Grattan report offers them no comfort, because of how bleakly they announced that all the miracle-cures like bio-gas, green hydrogen etc don't scale well, and how expensive the abandonment of shared infrastructure is.

Then there's the savvy compromisers, like Minns and Malinouskas, who have whole-heartedly embraced gas as a cleaner alternative to coal. Not just a transition fuel, but something to be grown and developed. They're deeply concerned about costs and affordability, and wouldn't contemplate strong coercive measures, like banning gas appliances, or paying industry to shut off production while gas infrastructure is slowly disassembled.

And of course, there's the climate and energy realists, who now represent the Taylor, Cananvan, Joyce, Hanson, everyone right of the left wing of Labor, who get that Net Zero is neither achievable nor necessary, as the plan to electrify everything with renewable energy isn't going to work at all, in Australia or elsewhere. And with the rest of the world not moving to net-zero either, the pain that Australia is justified in experiencing to lead the fast-thinning pack of climate absolutists is pretty close to zero. Grattan's report, which elevates emissions targets above everything, won't even register with them.

So Grattan's stance here, declaring the transition to be expensive and painful, but unavoidable and essential, puts them firmly on the path to intellectual irrelevance. This is the last stand of the righteous-but-honest, climate-absolutist intellectual pitching to the mainstream. I admire their ignorance of political realities. In the same kind of way I admire the athletic and instinctive movements of the last Tasmanian Tiger filmed in captivity, still very much its own creature in the moment, detached from the doom that their lonely existence portends to the informed onlooker. 1/

[Wimmera Mallee Environmental & Ag Protect Assoc @MalleeAg71414]

"Do not sign"
@BackyardBothy share interviews and advice from people who are dealing with wind farms. Will you be collateral damage for the renewable energy industry?
https://t.co/Xz0oi0xxrU
#windfarm #solarfarm #renewableenergy

[Wimmera Mallee Environmental & Ag Protect Assoc @MalleeAg71414]

Can we find the political will in Australia to address the human health concerns of wind turbines? Why is the precautionary approach to health not being taken?
What is the Impact of wind turbines on rural communities? 23 June 2026 Crookwell, NSW. Low frequency sound and the impacts on human health.
Renewable energy projects are destroying environments, communities, wake and turbulence from wind turbines cause a drying effect on the landscape.

Professor Ken Matson
Dr Mariana Alves Pereira
Steven Nowakowski - environmentalist
Prof Emeritus Ivan Kennedy

https://t.co/apk4sHOyfj

#windfarm #solarfarm #netzero #renewableenergy #crookwell

[Farmers Fightback @FarmersFightbac]

Well said @TopherField

[Topher Field @TopherField]

Watch the full video here. Here’s the link: https://t.co/J1uUwxxVXv
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And as always,

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[Aidan Morrison @FootnotesGuy]

Thanks Jon!! Great demonstration.

Inversely, refurbish coal, and we don’t need any of this transmission.

(Btw, $3.5b would pay for quite a bit of coal refurb)

[Murray Cod 🇦🇺🍻 @MurrayCoad]

Full life extension programs for Coal plants requires around $750 million each. Worth doing for NSW and QLD fleet. QLD has already allocated $1.6B over 5 years.
Just rebuild them and buy some local thermal coal.
China could rebuild the whole fleet for $5B.
Why electrify everything for Trillions?

[Farmers Fightback @FarmersFightbac]

@JacintaAllanMP What about our farms that you are forcing transmission lines and renewable energy zones onto? Nothing safe or even insurable about that! Your government is destroying us!

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[Farmers Fightback @FarmersFightbac]

So green- why are renewables allowed to contaminate everywhere?

[Wimmera Mallee Environmental & Ag Protect Assoc @MalleeAg71414]

"An update on the Exploding Nacelle Incident at Lal Lal wind farm from 15th May – see Video taken 23-05-2026 attached. In the attached video, you can see the remnants of the explosion scattered all over the nearby paddocks. There are no exclusion zones or caution signs at the gateways, and it appears that no work has yet been undertaken. The turbine is located 600m from the Bungal Dam, which feeds into the Ballarat water supply. I understand Central Highlands Water and the EPA have the footage. These things are obviously bad for Oz." Shared from Wind Farm Living view video via the link: https://t.co/kIV6EbIAPd