By MICHAEL SLOVANOS
THE Queensland Government has opened up nine new areas for gas exploration across the Cooper/Eromanga and Bowen/Surat Basins to boost future supply, but councils in the same area who run an organisation called The Greater Whitsunday Alliance (GW3) are pushing “decarbonisation”.
The councils – Mackay, Whitsunday and Isaac – and their GW3 “economic development” group need to make up their mind exactly what they want, or do their leaders suffer from economic schizophrenia?
They themselves admit that the mining and METS (mining equipment, technology and services) industry makes the largest contribution to economic output in the region, totaling $44.7B of total output yet their so-called decarbonisation project has been given “accelerated” status.
Cairns News has emailed GW3 chairman Tony Caruso asking why his organisation is promoting “decarbonisation” while acknowledging that coal is the biggest industry in the region. We would like to know if GW3 is proposing to scale down the coal and gas industry and actively promote renewable energy.
GW3 suggests on its own website that the mining and METS industry is “flexing into the renewables, critical minerals and rare earth space and charts a course toward decarbonisation and increased sustainability, in line with legislated Queensland and Australian Net Zero targets.”
Does this mean there will be no coal or gas industry in Queensland by 2050? After all, that is the date that Queensland’s Clean Economy Jobs Act 2024 declares will be when “net greenhouse gas emissions in Queensland are reduced to zero”.
So are councils just throwing out trendy, virtue-signalling catch phrases or are they suggesting that the coal industry, their economic lifeblood, has to be wound down in the future? They need to make up their mind what they really want.
And then there’s Logan City Council and an organisation Called the Queensland Community Alliance pushing a grand scheme to promote solar power for renters, which they claim can save the average Queensland household up to $3039 a year.
Their message is electrify with a battery, installation costs for which, incidentally, range from $10-$20,000 fully installed with an inverter. Those without solar will also be up for the solar system and installation costing $9-$11,000.
That said, you cannot run heavy industry or a national electricity system on solar panels and wind turbines. There must be gas turbines to fill the frequent gaps, rises and falls in renewable supply, which is why coal-fired power is invaluable in providing a solid, predictable 24×7 supply.
Meanwhile the State Government has started a three-month land release review “to modernise and streamline how gas exploration areas are identified and released.”
“Initiatives are aimed at unlocking supply and driving new gas investment to bring down energy prices,” Dale Last, the Minister for Natural Resources and Mines, Manufacturing and Regional and Rural Development announced.
That is a step in the right direction, but if Crisafuli and company were really serious, they would repeal or drastically downgrade the demands of the so-called Clean Economy Jobs Act by amendments.
“The Crisafulli government is taking action to drive down energy prices by attracting new investment in Queensland’s gas industry,” says Mr Dale.
We would hope so, because ever-increasing electricity prices are killing the Australian economy. The reality is you can’t have industry with an expensive, unreliable energy supply. New Zealand recently had a rude awakening in that area.
Mr Dale said said the nine new areas will made available for tender across the Cooper/Eromanga and Bowen/Surat Basins from May 29th. “The tender areas include both conventional and unconventional gas opportunities,” he said.
“Production from the tenure release would put downward pressure on energy prices, after Labor’s anti-gas policies sent investment off a cliff.”
But of course Crisafuli and company must pay their mandatory indulgences to the green religion: “Importantly, no land release areas intersect with the Lake Eyre Basin Strategic Environmental Area – Designated Precinct.”
Mr Last said the initiatives will make Queensland more attractive for gas investment. “The best way to bring down energy prices is to have more energy in the market, and that starts with exploration,” he said.
“These steps are about unlocking new supply, securing an investment pipeline and getting the right policy settings in place so Queensland can lead the way on energy security.
“Unscientific decisions made by the southern states have left Queensland carrying the load for the east coast gas market. We need a regulatory framework that supports new development, instead of holding it back.
“The 2025 Land Release Review will ensure land is made available in a way that balances the needs of the resources sector with environmental, agricultural, and community interests.
“It will consider changes to the land release expression of interest process, the land release area selection process, and the competitive tender process.”
The Minister’s media release quoted Australian Energy Producers CEO Samantha McCulloch as saying the announcements demonstrated Queensland’s strong commitment to ensuring reliable and affordable energy for Queenslanders.
“We particularly welcome the announcement that tenders for nine parcels of land for gas and petroleum exploration are now open – a critical step in securing the future gas supply Australian households and industry will need,” she said.
“Queensland is already doing the heavy lifting to keep the lights on and ensure reliable gas supply along the east coast of Australia.
“Queensland’s energy leadership continues to drive economic growth and underpin billions in royalties that fund essential services and commend the government’s proactive approach to unlocking the state’s natural gas potential and securing its energy future.
“The Queensland gas industry is powering the state’s economy, supporting jobs, regional communities and spending more than $80 billion with local businesses each year.”
AGL drained householder’s solar battery at peak times then slammed him with peak rates for using the grid.
FirstFactCheck
Jun 06, 2025
Peter Anderson joined AGL’s solar battery plan in 2021 and accepted $1,000 off his battery installation costs in return for participating in a VPP or virtual power plant, a scheme where AGL aggregates householders’ batteries, using those devices according to the needs of the grid.
He signed up for a five year deal.
For the first year, everything was fine.
“It was all very gentle and easy going,” Mr Anderson says, “It was, ‘Hey, this is what it is, we promise we won’t do these things, we promise we will do these things, we knock a thousand bucks off the battery, we put you on a five-year deal to stay on the program for five years.’ The idea of it was to help stabilise the grid in times of drama. So it all seemed very reasonable. And for the first year, I don’t even think they touched the battery.”
A year or so into the deal, AGL suddenly, and he says without warning, signed him up for a complicated kind of dynamic charge called a demand tariff, where the power price customers are charged is determined by their single greatest half-hourly period of electricity use from the grid across an entire month. Essentially, if you’re taking power from the grid at the peak times, you are charged more for all your power usage for the month. The power company says they adequately notified him of the change, but he says it was a complete surprise when he got the bill.
At the same time, AGL started to drain his battery at peak times, meaning that he was forced to use grid power at those times, and raising his power prices astronomically for the whole month.
He says, “They changed the way they use the battery. It went from these little bites every now and again to just full on sucking the thing down to its 5 per cent reserve level, just dragging everything out of it. And you could map when they were doing that to when the price on the (national electricity market) had skyrocketed.”
AGL disputes Mr Anderson’s claim — and in doing so basically admitted that they were draining the battery.
‘a spokeswoman rejected claims AGL ever entirely depleted the batteries of participating households, saying it was the company’s policy to always leave at least 20 per cent of a charge remaining.’
Draining 80 per cent of the charge seems to be quite unreasonable.
They also claim that the demand tariff was a completely separate matter, unrelated to the regular draining of the battery, which of course it isn’t, if they were draining the battery then imposing the peak tariff. The demand tariff was so unpopular, however, that they have canned it now completely.
For Mr Anderson, his own experience was bad enough to leave the VPP scheme.
In future, he says he’ll manage his own energy needs.
“This is an obvious misuse of the virtual power plant solution,” he believes.
“They’re draining the battery to service other clients and you’re left in the lurch.
“Now, I bet if you go through the fine print … there’s no guarantees around that.
“But there’s the way they sell it and the spirit in which they sell it, which is very much against how they behaved.”
https://firstfactcheck.substack.com/p/agl-drained-householders-solar-battery
Now commenter dd2 is regurgitating from commenter duck, who told him to get help. I agree, you sound very lonely, possibly on the verge of a breakdown.
I called CC&S “oxygen theft” several times in the last couple of weeks, you go and have your own idea for once if you’re capable, or just get help.
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Joe Bogan: “Can’t believe, I call Carbon capture and Storage Oxygen Theft, and I just have to wait and commenter dd2 faithfully regurgitates my comment”
You’re fantasizing, junior. Get yourself some help. 🙂
Can’t believe, I call Carbon capture and Storage Oxygen Theft, and I just have to wait and commenter dd2 faithfully regurgitates my comment, this pervert keeps insulting me and plagiarising my comments, no sign of any original thought yet.
The mention of candles is interesting. Candles are made of tallow from four legged animals which also produce CO2 by their habit of farting. If the psychos of our planet get their way to greatly reduced the number of four legged friends to help reduce CO2 levels how are we going to have candles “to show the way” when electricity fails us because of no wind and overcast skies as per Bill Gates’ master plan? Lack of coal and gas use means a lot less electricity. A viscous cycle, is it not?
“The best way to bring down energy prices is to have more energy in the market, and that starts with exploration,” he said.
I disagree, the best way to keep down the price of gas is to not give it away to foreign countries as W.A. has been accused of doing while hiking the price locally. It has been suggested that Japan imports W.A. gas almost for free then on-sells it on the world market. (Don’t worry about our future supplies.)
The only way they can eliminate their CO2 is if we let them keep stealing our O2.
Take away the O2 and what’s left? Residual C. And we all know how to scientifically deal with any residual C we come across, right? Simples. Carbon capture, right?
There Will Be No Climate Catastrophe: MIT Professor Dr Richard Lindzen – Climate Depot
According to Lindzen, all recent predictions of climate catastrophe have proven false, and future ones will be as well. “2030 will pass. 2050 will pass. Fifty years will pass. There will be no climate catastrophe,” he says.
In the interview, Lindzen thoroughly discusses what climate scientists know about climate change and its processes, as well as the half-truths and outright lies propagated by those proclaiming a climate crisis. He addresses topics such as the limited capacity of CO2 to warm the planet, its actual role on Earth, misleading claims about the increasing frequency of extreme weather events, the absurdity of climate policies and the future of energy.
Dr Richard Lindzen is an internationally recognized American atmospheric scientist and MIT emeritus professor whose contributions to climate science are significant.
https://www.climatedepot.com/2025/05/29/there-will-be-no-climate-catastrophe-mit-professor-dr-richard-lindzen/
Europe’s largest active volcano, Mount Etna , is again ballistic. Flights to Sicily cancelled. Pyroclastic flows, ash plumes – immeasurable tonnes of CO2 released daily for planetary destruction. This is probably why Sicily is such a lush green year around and the rich volcanic soil will grow anything.
It’s a good thing that Climate Crisis Doomer Greta Thunberg has got herself a new gig. She and the freedom flotilla are sailing from Catania to Gaza, there is no way they would be leaving from Catania by plane.
Why do we all have to always follow and do the same thing like everybody else?
Anti-carbon wackos can form their own wacko town somewhere away from us carbon-loving people.
Stop pushing your wacko ideas onto the rest of us.
And the cupheads who have no ideas of their own who have to always play the follow the leader or the simon sayz type game, they can join the wackos, too.
Hopefully the crocs will swallow them all.
Commenter Wright
You can’t believe anything now since AI video is available to any teenager, so I would not be too sure about whatever was broadcast. However he did popularise “Drill Baby Drill” during the campaign, as he did popularise “Fake News” in the previous campaign. Well it’s only got more fake since.
They are doing deals as fast as they can with the Ukraina clearout and they blew up a bunch of 1950’s type planes today, reportedly, to add to the fake news. The Gaza deals were all done before they started, Ukraina seems to be getting dragged out as cover for the Gaza one-sided war, ie genocide.
I notice yesterday Mein Trumpf was wearing a personalised white MAGA cap with his president numbers on the side, 45 & 47, which adds up to 9-11. Whatever that means.
brianajnz
“Joe. Trump has yet to put a dagger through climate change. All he needs to do is shut down wind turbines and sue the bastards. Why hasn’t he?”
LOL!
Might have something to do with the fact that he’s a lying, treasonous WEF chosen wolf-in-sheep’s-clothing and it’s absolutely mind boggling that so many hopelessly delusional fools still don’t or, still refuse to see through his blatant lies and therefore still worship the ground the genocidal false messiah walks upon; thus believe every lie he utters as ‘gospel truth’.
Our government should take note of what is happening elsewhere around the world re Net Zero BS
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/05/10/britain-blackouts-net-zero-ed-miliband/
Commenter ajnz
I’m on the fence but I’ll take the good stuff no problem.
Expect Mein Trumpf to choose his battles and the timing and who he appoints to fight them, and how, and ( general rule ) don’t expect too much and you won’t be disappointed, too.
CLIMATE CHANGE CLAIMS SH0T TO PIECES.
When the Ice Cracks: Michael Mann’s Legal Defeat and the Climate of Accountability – PJ Media
What was once billed as a victory for climate science now reads like a cautionary tale of arrogance.
Excerpt >
The End of the SLAPP Era?
Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation, or SLAPP suits, are designed to silence critics through legal intimidation. Mann’s campaign was a textbook example. By targeting individual writers and nonprofit think tanks, he hoped to scare others into silence.
For years, it worked. Journalists walked on eggshells. Scientists who questioned prevailing models did so anonymously or not at all. Free speech took a back seat to narrative control.
This ruling shatters that dynamic. It affirms that even loud, politically favored scientists must prove their claims with facts, not feelings. And it reminds us that courts are not the proper venue for science to settle scores.
The Ice Beneath Climate Orthodoxy Begins to Crack
The implications of this case stretch far beyond Mann’s personal disgrace. For years, the climate industrial complex has leaned heavily on scare graphs and dramatic modeling to demand trillions in global policy changes. But when one of the movement’s most famous architects is caught misrepresenting data and himself, the entire foundation begins to quake.
Organizations such as NASA, GISS, and NOAA have routinely adjusted historical temperature records and used model projections that have consistently overshot reality. Now, people are asking hard questions:
Why do projections from twenty years ago still not match observed warming?
Why are climate models consistently wrong, and why are they still used to justify sweeping regulations?
Why do scientists who challenge these inconsistencies find themselves blacklisted or defunded?
The answer is uncomfortable. For too long, one version of the science was protected by the media, bureaucracy, and legal threats. Not anymore.
The Movement Will Suffer from Its Martyr’s Fall
Michael Mann was a pillar of the climate change movement, not because his data was flawless, but because he fought like a political operative. He understood that the public didn’t need nuance; it needed symbols, and he made himself one.
His downfall represents more than just personal embarrassment. It’s an unmasking. It shows that the high priests of climate change are not always guardians of truth, but often zealots of ideology.
This could mark the start of a long-overdue audit, not just of Mann’s work, but of all the organizations that parroted his claims without question. Governments are waking up. The UK has scaled back its net-zero goals. Australia’s opposition is openly questioning climate funding. Even Germany, the gold standard of green virtue, is facing backlash over rising energy costs.
The spell is breaking.
A New Climate of Courage
Michael Mann’s courtroom humiliation is more than just a procedural win for CEI or National Review. It’s a cultural moment, a signal that free inquiry and rigorous debate are returning to climate science.
It should have always been about the data. Instead, it became about dogma. But now, people see that those who scream the loudest for consensus often have the most to hide.
To the skeptics, engineers, meteorologists, and even the farmers who questioned the gospel and paid the price, your vindication has begun.
https://pjmedia.com/david-manney/2025/05/24/when-the-ice-cracks-michael-manns-legal-defeat-and-the-climate-of-accountability-n4940123
SUN TAX / SOLAR TAX AND The End of Premium Feed-in Tariffs:
What it means for solar owners
March 4, 2025
The PREMIUM FEED-IN TARIFFS IS DUE TO END ON THE 30TH JUNE, 2028 so it is high time that solar panel owners who applied to install solar panels before the 30th of September 2011 think about getting a plan in place when it ends, if not sooner, especially if you are not getting the benefits anyway because of low solar exports.
The other thing that is imminent is what is called a ‘solar export tariff’ also commonly referred to as a “SOLAR TAX OR SUN TAX”. Because of the glut of solar on rooftops in Australia and especially in SA, there is an oversupply of energy from solar during the day and electricity providers are introducing a new mechanism to charge solar panel owners for the electricity they feed back into the grid.
What it amounts to is that solar panel owners may be charged to export energy to the grid (1-3c/kWh) depending on the time of day.
A response to others below.
Qld councils push anti-carbon paranoia but say they want industry too.
Enigmatic headline. Finishing a sentence with too is not good grammar.
Too as in also or too as in as well?
Do they want industry or they want industry to push anti-carbon.
Moving on.
Qld government opens gas exploration.
Greater Whitsunday Alliance push decarbonisation.
The GWA – GW3 are a bunch of loony tunes set up to oppose govt.
We want more CO2 not less – Dr Patrick Moore.
If we are to oppose mining we FIRST need to define just what sort of world we wish to live in.
Gas and coal are not necessary in feudal age and will not be necessary in tomorrows feudal age if certain ass…… have their way.
The feudal ahhh 15 minute city will be a prison just like yesteryear.
Logan Council and Queensland Community Alliance (Globalists in disguise) pushing for solar power. NOTE. Batteries are fuelled by finite mined minerals.
‘They’ say you cannot run electricity on solar or wind. Exactly. There will be no industry in a feudal state.
Meanwhile the government wants gas – Dole Last – which suggests someone in government is on our side.
Question: What is the rude awakening that New Zealand recently received?
Samantha McCulloch supports affordable energy.
Even if I were to support a new world order I would need to know exactly what I would be getting myself into FIRST.
Stephen. There will be plenty of candles in the new feudal state. They used to be a big industry and could be again.
Joey. The man behind the curtain knows we need more carbon. We dont need more carbon for his New World Order of a feudalist state.
Joe. Trump has yet to put a dagger through climate change. All he needs to do is shut down wind turbines and sue the bastards. Why hasn’t he?
Carbon sustains all life on this planet… those that speak out against it are just showing their ignorance… they are just repeating globalist narratives on cue as they do with most everything else.. Not so long ago it was the ‘safe and effective’ thing, which was just the opposite !!
Whenever you hear someone discussing ‘carbon’ but claiming it is a dangerous a gas which will cook our entire planet, you know immediately they haven’t a clue what they are talking about. Carbon is NOT the same as Carbon Dioxide!!!!
They have all gone fully schizo and are repositioning like a mob of panicked sheep, reason ? Trump admin came out with “We are going to put a dagger through the heart of the ClimateChange™ religion”.
Don’t buy a house-battery just yet.
The words Lawful and Legal are not the same.
Councils are not ‘lawful’, as they are corporations that use unlawful Admiralty Law which is under the Bar Association and is registered under the laws of the High Seas of ancient British Trading Companies. This is not by any means ‘lawful’, and they consider Australia to be the ‘Australian Government Corporation’ and can make and break laws as they please whilst acting and looking like valid government, which they are not.
These corporations, acting as government bodies have ‘TAKEN OVER’ Australia as part of a 125 year old Coup D eTat, and run fake elections that enable fake government to run Australia as a supply bank and farm for their international corporate enterprises.
None of this was in the intention of Australia becoming a
Federation of Colonies becoming States as signed into place by Queen Victoria in 1900 ready for Federation of the Commonwealth of Australia in 1/1/1901.
SO COUNCILS ARE NOT LAWFUL ENTITIES IN AUSTRALIA AS VERIFIED BY 2 REFERENDUMS.
THEY ARE JUST CORPORATE INTERFERENCE.
THEY CANNOT MAKE LAWS AND DO NOT HAVE THE APPROVAL OF ANY MONARCH TO EXIST.
STATES CANNOT MAKE LAWS THAT DO NOT AGREE WITH CONSTITUTIONAL STANDARDS.
FEDERAL GOVERNMENT CANNOT MAKE LAWS THAT DO NOT AGREE WITH CONSTITUTIONAL STANDARDS.
WE, THE PEOPLE MUST SACK COUNCILS STATES AND FEDERAL GOVERNMENT THAT DOES NOT COMPLY WITH REFERENDUMS AND CONSTITUTIONAL LAWS.
IF WE, THE PEOPLE DO NOT DEMAND LAWFUL STANDARDS, WE COMMIT TREASON ACCORDING TO CONSTITUTIONAL LAW.
WE ARE INTENDED TO REPLACE AND SACK ROGUE GOVERNMENT.
I WONDER IF THERE WILL EVER BE A POLITICIAN OR COUNCILOR THAT MAY HAVE THE SLIGHTEST FRAGMENT OF COMMON SENSE OR WILL THEY CARRY ON WITH THIER WOKE IDEALISM UNHINDERED BY KNOWLEDGE.
The author said – “… The councils – Mackay, Whitsunday and Isaac – and their GW3 “economic development” group need to make up their mind exactly what they want, or do their leaders suffer from economic schizophrenia?”
Maybe their thought processes could be clarified with the assistance of some sturdy rope and lamp posts. Conducive to creative thinking, so I’ve heard.
I know, I know, all too soon, but it’s going to be all the rage in the not too distant future, and who doesn’t like to stay ahead of the trend?
Plants need essential Carbon dioxide (CO₂), for proper growth.
Besides CO₂ is not the issue, nor the problem.
𝑪𝑶2 𝒎𝒚𝒕𝒉 𝒃𝒖𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒅: 𝑾𝒉𝒚 𝒘𝒆 𝒏𝒆𝒆𝒅 𝒎𝒐𝒓𝒆 𝒄𝒂𝒓𝒃𝒐𝒏 𝒅𝒊𝒐𝒙𝒊𝒅𝒆 𝒕𝒐 𝒈𝒓𝒐𝒘 𝒇𝒐𝒐𝒅 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒕𝒔🍂🍃
✄https://www.naturalnews.com/039720_carbon_dioxide_myths_plant_nutrition.html 📎
It’s the filthy rich & as such, the powerful PSYCHOPATHS & their minions of this world, who are our real threat + which are our true enemies.
If more people had guts and determination and got off there arse, showed up at council or shire meetings and told the Charltons in shiny boots to GO F#*K them selves and stoped taking notice of the prestatitutes this Country would have not fallen in to the swamps hands.
Now people can carry on Councils are unlawful or this that and the other but every time I go speak my mind I’m normally the only person there not employed by government while everyone else is yapping on keyboards.
Australia is Over and out. Just wait for the last person to blow the last candle out.
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