Greens policies causing power blackouts now:






4,789 views  Jun 13, 2022  Queensland is being warned power load shedding is possible tonight, with further cuts possible in New South Wales tomorrow as industry starts up again after the long weekend.
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The Australian Energy Market Operator has issued a ‘lack of reserve’ forecast meaning demand is likely to outstrip supply in the two states.
Queenslanders are being urged to conserve electricity or face shedding from 5pm until 11pm. New South Wales from about 8pm.
If demand outstrips what is being generated, load shedding will happen to protect the network.

thegreatdivide wrote on Jun 14^th, 2022 at 4:54pm:



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as more power outages loom


Entire suburbs in Sydney were sent into darkness on Monday night, with concerns more power outages could hit areas of both New South Wales and Queensland over the next 24 hours.

Homes in Sydney’s north and the Northern Beaches were hit with power outages on Monday night.

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Homes in Beacon Hill, Frenchs Forest, Narraweena, Cromer and Dee Why were all temporarily without power, Ausgrid said.

Queenslanders were warned they were at risk of a significant power disruption between 5.30pm to 8pm on Monday, but blackouts were avoided.

Meanwhile, NSW is on high alert from 7pm on Tuesday due to a predicted supply shortfall.

The power outages come as Federal Energy Minister Chris Bowen warns the system is “under pressure” and said households should ‘brace for a bumpy period ahead’.
Suburbs around Sydney suffered power outages on Monday night, as officials warn more blackouts could be on their way.

lee wrote on Jun 13^th, 2022 at 4:17pm:

Drought can cause conflict; and droughts are increasing in severity around the globe.

(quick google)

"Drought—a year with a below-average water supply—is a natural part of the climate cycle, but as Earth's atmosphere continues to warm due to climate change, droughts are becoming more frequent, severe, and pervasive. The past 20 years have been some of the driest conditions in the American west on record.27 Sept 2021   

Ditto for the GLOBE....get it ? oh.. never mind..

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Certainly simple: drought MAY cause conflict, and may cause increase in food and energy prices.

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after you used it as an ad hominen.....oh dear...


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Japan's economy would have been plunged into a  disastrous depression if the BoJ had not propped up the economy by buying most of the  debt issued by the government to save the financial industry  (when property and share prices collapsed in 1990; recall Tokyo was said to worth more then the entire US in 1989..) 

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It's a pity covid didn't force the lock-down of the global economy for long enough to destroy your flat-earth  neoliberal economic orthodoxy (when public debt would have become unrepayable).

Perhaps climate change may yet do the trick, if climate scientists have erred on the downside of global AGW climate risk.

thegreatdivide wrote on Jun 14^th, 2022 at 5:16pm:

AH NASA

"The past 20 years have been some of the driest conditions in the American west on record. Right now, the western United States—including the part of California home to Schohr’s ranch—is experiencing extreme or exceptional drought that will likely have long-term impacts on the land and the people who depend on it.  "

So something like the 163 year drought? Or not. " 20 years driest" is not the same as 20 years drought.

According to wiki California has had four droughts since 2000. 2006-2010, 2011-2017, 2018 and 2020-2021. California has had 6 year droughts in the past. Apart from the really long ones.

La Nina brings droughts to California. La Nina is not a symptom of climate change but natural variability.

thegreatdivide wrote on Jun 14^th, 2022 at 5:16pm:


Yes. But definitely not "WILL".

thegreatdivide wrote on Jun 14^th, 2022 at 5:16pm:


No dear. The "nincompook" starts with you.

thegreatdivide wrote on Jun 14^th, 2022 at 5:16pm:


And post the bailing out of the banks? Do the Japanese want to keep it low or are they forced to keep it low?

thegreatdivide wrote on Jun 14^th, 2022 at 5:16pm:


Or perhaps over on the easy coast they can get used to blackouts. The AEMO wants to force diesel and gas fired generators to make power. Even if it costs them more than is economic.

thegreatdivide wrote on Jun 14^th, 2022 at 6:13pm:


So we shouldn't charge uncontracted gas at spot price? How much of east coast gas is uncontracted.

thegreatdivide wrote on Jun 15^th, 2022 at 12:53pm:


To do that you would have to nationalise everything. Oh yes that's right MMT, the untried, is the answer.

thegreatdivide wrote on Jun 15^th, 2022 at 12:53pm:


Exactly And Labor is doing so well in Queensland.

thegreatdivide wrote on Jun 15^th, 2022 at 3:07pm:



You didn't identify you merely made a sweeping statement.thegreatdivide wrote on Jun 15^th, 2022 at 12:53pm:



So what exactly do you mean by energy?

thegreatdivide wrote on Jun 15^th, 2022 at 3:07pm:


How did they resist when it is solely a state responsibility?