Electricity prices increase up to 100 per cent from today. Gladstone coal fired power station, Queensland’s biggest at 1680 Mw, has been owned by American NRG company based in Houston, Texas, since 1994.
By staff writers
Electricity, water, roads, rail and rubbish management once upon a time in Queensland was owned by governmental public utilities but today they are known as milking cows for corporations all being pals of the LNP, Labor duopoly.
The free-trading, de-regulating Liberals and Nationals way back in the 60’s when public utilities were owned and operated by state governments and local government councils for and on behalf of the people, decided to personally get a slice of the action by selling these valuable assets.
Since federation government has been responsible for providing affordable power and water, the necessities of life, financed by income tax and council rates.
Post-war, this was how our forefathers looked ahead believing Australians could survive and lead a stable and affordable lifestyle which then was the envy of the free world.
With electricity generation we relied on Queensland’s vast supplies of coal and natural gas for power stations and the Snowy River hydro-power scheme in the south which according to planning experts, would both provide cheap power for a century.
Successive LNP and Labor state governments have handed over control of our coal and gas reserves to their multinational mates, for a substantial backhander of course, and these avaricious companies now charge whatever they like to sell us our own coal and gas for power generation.
Gladstone power station since its inception in 1976 has been fired by second grade coal supplied free by mining companies as a condition of their permits. It was transported from nearby coalfields to the power station by Queensland Rail also free of charge, which then was a public utility.
Then Queenslanders had cheap power for manufacturing industries and small business which sprang up in the Gladstone industrial hub that could afford to make aluminium extrusions and numerous other commodities supplying the Australian market.
Now the operator of the bauxite refinery in Gladstone and alumina smelter at Boyne Island, Rio Tinto is on the verge of shutting down due to exorbitant power supply charges.
We would like to ask the ‘media tart’ and former Labor Premier Peter Beattie how much he copped when coal seam gas licences were handed out by Labor and who got the biggest sling when the Bligh Labor Party privatised Queensland Rail freight. We know it was substantial and rumours were rife 15 years ago throughout the gas industry that Beattie allegedly pocketed many millions of shares.
Indeed a mining insurance industry executive told one of our scribes that gas companies at the time were complaining about the backhanders they had to pass on to the Beattie coterie.
Not bad for an exiled boy from Atherton, who happens to be the illegitimate son of the late rodeo legend Chilla Seeney of Monto. When Chilla was asked 25 years ago if he was Beattie’s father he responded: “That depends on who is the mother.”
The interviewer and Chilla agreed that she was a woman from Sydney who married into the Beattie family from Atherton, Far North Queensland. Peter Beattie took their name.
Chilla passed away in 2008.
Peter Beattie’s mother died when he was very young and the grandmother, Mrs Esberson reared him.
Politics has been the mainstay of Peter Beattie’s family which strangely is closely related to former National Party Deputy Premier Jeff Seeney from Monto who happens to be Beattie’s first cousin.
Jeff Seeney
Their individual political bents are diametrically opposed and neither has ever claimed the other as a relative.
When the Joh Bjelke Petersen era ceased dramatically in the late 80’s new Labor Premier Wayne Goss beginning in 1990 in true Marxist style, began gutting regional infrastructure in readiness for incorporation of government departments.
Gone were the electricity and water boards managed by local people drawn from regional communities.
Regional courthouses as agents for state government services, then power and water regional branch offices stopped conducting business, leaving public utilities to be managed by a centrist government in Brisbane. Nothing has changed since then. Manned railway stations were another casualty of privatisation.
These sleaze-bag socialist operatives, former Labor Premiers Wayne Goss, a practicing lawyer before politics and Peter Beattie, an academic lawyer, both of whom got into bed with the big end of town, incorporated public assets for the benefit of trans-national corporations.
The result? After Beattie changed the Queensland Constitution in 2001, every state government department including courts became a corporation with its own ABN number.
Corporations legally exist only to make money and pay dividends. They have been fleecing ratepayers and taxpayers for two generations. Public utilities which were designed to provide cheap power and water at the cost of supply plus a small margin for maintenance are now ancient history.
From today Queensland power companies in many cases will double or treble the cost of domestic and commercial electricity at a time when many households can barely put food on the table.
The few remnant manufacturing businesses in regional areas will soon be forced to close because of excessive overheads. Farmers will have no option but to revert to diesel power generation to run dairies and irrigation plants.
Now the mad rush by the climate cultists to shut down coal and gas to be replaced by totally unreliable renewable power has seen energy prices surge up to 100 per cent.
All thanks to the free-trading, de-regulating Liberal Labor duopoly doing the bidding of United (communist) Nation’s Agenda 21/30 depopulation plan to which Queensland Labor signed off in Rio in 1992.
Revelation 18:23
And the light of a candle shall shine no more at all in thee; and the voice of the bridegroom and of the bride shall be heard no more at all in thee: for thy merchants were the great men of the earth; for by thy sorceries were all nations deceived.
Sorcery: The Remarkable Tradition That Is Still Practiced Today
Jenny Singer
Modern Witches
“…….For Susala Kay, a queer Pagan Jewitch in the same Bay Area community as Starhawk, that tradition is alive and a well. She is reticent to define Paganism (“It’s just like Judaism— ask one Pagan and you’ll get three answers!”) but says her interest in Paganism is inextricable from Judaism because “Judaism really began out of Canaanite, pagan religion. This is my ancestry—it goes back to Ashkenaz, but it also goes back farther.”………..”
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Sorcery Strongs Greek Concordnce 5331
https://biblehub.com/greek/5331.htm
From pharmakeus; medication (“pharmacy”), i.e. (by extension) magic (literally or figuratively) — sorcery, witchcraft.
Makow–We’re Satanically Possessed by Cabalists
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Is it the Government or is it their Overlords?
Why do we think that only happens in America?
I remember when the Government of the day (Health Minister Greg Hunt) was in the middle of speech when he was shuffled aside by ‘Twiggy’ Forrest who took over, and the look on Greg Hunt’s face at the time.
So who was calling the shots that day?
Clearly it was not Greg Hunt.
Noted.
Who are the Australians calling the shots in this Country, and on what basis?
Don’t give me a BS China (or any other race) answer.
Names, not Countries.
There have been some Politicians trying to tell us what is going on but they have a Code of Conduct and they are just as silenced as the Medical Professionals.
Correct me if I’m wrong about that.
You would be surprised the Codes that Government employees are bound by.
Many Politicians are also plain stupid, useless eaters with a useful vote.
We saw that recently, the calibre of the brain dead who didn’t want to investigate the rise in deaths since 2020.
Why not?
I recall Greg Hunt being the one and only Politician who told us that Australia was going to be on a Clinical trial. There is it, right there. The honest truth.
It was a Clinical trial.
Anyone listening?
And that they were going to collect lots of data.
The honest truth again.
Could he have personally done anything about that?
No.
He wasn’t calling the shots.
That was more like Jane Halton, an unelected Event 201 non Politician behind the scenes.
Not all the Politicians are slimy grease balls.
We just need to weed them out.
And fast.
Remember of course, Mr Global and his Committee want us to be against our Government, so they can bring in theirs.
Don’t give it to them.
They want us to be against our Government.
We can do our own weeding thanks.
One exposure at a time.
Non citizens need to butt out.
Expect more, support those that do the right thing, and roll the ones that don’t.
Starting with the one’s that have been there too long.
One Politician at a time.
What did Beattie go to his comfy jail cell for? It was Beattie?
There’s so much Political BS culling to be done and while some things are being exposed and investigated behind the scenes, the best thing we can all do is take back our Government, because we still need one.
The ‘One World’ Government waits in the wings, like a vulture.
The second thing we need to do is call out the BS Federal duopoly as Cairns News does.
This is the same snake with two heads.
I am hopeful that enough Australians know what they need to do.
Nothing like a cold winter to remind them.
Well Put Stan
This is the same Hegelian Dialectic (problem > reaction > solution), strategy they deploy for about almost everything. The most recent example of its effectiveness is of course, the ‘covid’ scamdemic hoax.
Works like this:
1. They invent a (fake) problem or, sometimes exploit, or grossly exaggerate a genuine issue.
2. They engineer a reaction. Normally accomplished with rampant fearful lies and propaganda, knowing that around 95% of the gullible and mostly uneducated public are scientifically illiterate and will readily believe any story worded with ‘sciency’ sounding technical jargon they don’t understand.
3. Offer a solution. ALWAYS to our detriment, inconvenience and often great expense.
4. The docile and ignorant proletariat are so dumbed-down and/or frightened by steps 1 and 2, they gladly accept the solution (3), naively believing that if they do whatever the UN controlled and humanity loathing, lying government tell them they must do: things will soon return to normal (i.e. ‘2 weeks to flatten the curve’).
5. Yet they still believe. 🤦♂️
Irene, true. The governing idiots in Oz sell off @ mates’ rates for a fraction of the land value and then blow up the coal-fired power stations while the Chinese build them. In a few years time, when it’ll be obvious renewable energy is not working as falsely promoted, the fools will look at the rubble of flattened power stations and say out loud, ‘maybe we should have kept them in maintenance mode until the alt energy system was up and running; all the while pretending it was not part of the plan to send us back to a pre-industrial era.
Government, MSM media, unthinking public, what a mess.
Australia is in much the same situation as the African nations – private enterprise is ripping us off!
The West Is Suspected To Be Behind Civil Unrest In DRC For Selfish Gain
@Irene Laird
They are building these monstrosities to stop the use of fossil fuels and mineral and yet they cannot make them or run them without the use of fossil fuels and minerals!
It’s all a ploy Irene.
They’re not stupid or incompetent. They KNOW these monstrosities don’t work and will never produce reliable electric power. And that’s the very reason why they want them and are replacing coal or gas fuelled power stations with the useless junk…
The real agenda hidden behind them is to impoverish us all.
IOW: Send us back to the dystopian and energy devoid pre-industrial era.
xyz47, yep your right, BUT most of the ‘kids’ are voting for it.
Australia has been sold piecemeal to foreign owners and Corporations. Our Utilities, Water, Roads, Dairy Farms, Cattle Stations, Mines, Minerals, Airlines, Houses, Islands, Huge tracts of Land, to name a few.
The Government doesn’t care about the cost to the Australian people of all this foreign ownership. Their short term gain, for our long term loss.
We all know that Wind Turbines will not power this Country, that tearing down thousands of acres of trees to erect thousands of these ugly edifices that cannot not be recycled is a crime against nature. We also know they are a danger to nature and anyone who lives near them.
The hypocracy and contradictions would be laughable if they weren’t so sad. They are building these monstrosities to stop the use of fossil fuels and mineral and yet they cannot make them or run them without the use of fossil fuels and minerals!
xyz47
It is only the beginning.
Indeed.
Even we (the awake mob), ain’t seen nothin’ yet…
Alan Vaughn – You are right, because the people allow them to.
You would think the last 3 years had taught them something but they seem to have amnesia and think it’s all over and everything is normal again. It is only the beginning.
Well they are going to be in for a very rude awakening when it does happen – I just hope it’s in time!
xyz47 said – “… extremely bad governmental management…”
Au contraire, mon ami…
What we have been witnessing for the last few decades is actually extremely COMPETENT governmental management.
The mistake here is presuming that they’re working for US – and they most emphatically are NOT.
Our government isn’t “our” government, it works for the Luciferian Globalists, and they are doing PRECISELY what they have been instructed to do by their genocidal masters.
And they’ve done a masterful job of keeping the Australian population in a permanent and pervasive cognitive stupor, as we are collectively herded ever closer to our ultimate extermination.
I wouldn’t have thought Beattie could change a constitution.
I am inclined to think the whole damned mess is very irregular, illegal?
So, did Beattie commit Treason when he changed the Queensland Constitution? And, has EVERY Queensland politician since then also committed TREASON by not correcting what Beattie did?
@xyz47
You asked,
How can governments do these things without asking the people?
Answer is rather simple really: ‘the people’ allow them to.
The vast majority of the sleepwalking sheeple need to WAKE UP.
Unfortunately, however they most likely won’t until it’s far too late, if at all and prefer to stay in their television induced trance, believing life’s great.
‘The people’ are our real enemy – they’re assisting the lying and treasonous governments that hate them to destroy our society and whole way of life by their gross ignorance, stupidity and complacency. But worst of all, is that they are totally unaware of what they’re doing, despite concerted efforts by informed people like us to awaken them or shake them back into reality.
I’ve heard many wise voices of reason say we’ve had it far too easy for much too long.
And it gets worse…
https://www.malcolmrobertsqld.com.au/how-the-west-was-lost/
How can governments do these things without asking the people? They are a law unto themselves.. Its a shame really as we have the resources to be very well off but unfortunately are more like a third world country now due to corruption and extremely bad governmental management.
They Chinabash all the time but I bet there are no Chinese families with children living in cars of tents in the cities there !! It is absolutely shameful that this is happening in this country. The diggers must be turning over in their graves –
Australia is not Australia any more – lucky country no more unfortunately. I am not sure what any child’s future here is now.. and many young people know this, hence growing suicides and depression etc.
Wake up Australians!
Many a true word is spoken in jest:
https://www.larryhannigan.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Albo-explains-net-zero.mp4
The author said – “Electricity prices increase up to 100 per cent from today. ”
Yes, folks, Momentum Energy electricity charge increases today, 01 July 2023, by 100%.
Now let’s hear the BS ABS take on Australian inflation.
BTW, if you’re living in Victoria, just remember that uber-arsehole baby-eating genocidal mass-murderer and card-carrying Luciferian Dictator Dan has already stated that Victoria’s gas supply is going to be completely shut down circa 2024, and the electricity supply is going to be seized by the State – so walking dog-shit Dangerous Dan will have complete and utter control over the energy supply to your household.
If you’re not afraid – you should be.
And if this doesn’t wake you up – then you and all your children and grandchildren are already dead, you just haven’t been buried yet.
As a consequence, this will also increase the crime rate, which no doubt is part of their intentions…