Eric Worrall – This rally starts just over ONE HOUR from now. Anyone who attends please post photo links in the comments below, with permission for us to use them.
UPDATED: Wednesday 31st of January 2024
The National Rally Against Reckless Renewables is on the first sitting day of Parliament, Tuesday, 6th February 2024, at 10am in front of Parliament House. This peaceful rally is grassroots, representing many diverse regional communities who are directly and adversely affected by the Australian Government’s reckless rollout of “renewables”. We urge the Federal and State Governments to cease their reckless rollout of unreliable, unaffordable, and environmentally destructive wind, solar, limited “firming” batteries, and high-voltage transmission lines, amidst an ever-increasing demand for reliable electricity.
Currently, there are over 1000 new renewable projects in the government’s “Powering Our Nation” pipeline (Source AEMO, 2023). Almost all of these are located in Regional Australia. In the lead-up to most of these “projects”, this government has conducted short, insincere, and unacknowledged community consultation. Exploiting the fact that most of these projects are located in or near coastal, farming, and traditional communities with small populations, the government continues to disregard our concerns. In many cases, our right to judicial review or appeal has or will be removed.
Australian consumers, taxpayers, and industries require an electricity network that is efficient, safe, reliable, secure, and affordable. It is critical for Australia, now and in the future, to establish a network that does not damage our unique environment, particularly productive agricultural land, fisheries, and native habitats.
This government’s reckless rollout of “renewables” poses a significant threat to our nation, threatening food production for Australians and 80 million consumers globally. Our fauna and flora are facing unprecedented destruction, as hundreds of thousands of hectares of land and ocean floors are being deforested and/or damaged. It is posing a threat to our economy, costing over $121 billion (AEMO, 2023). There are documented serious supply chain and sustainment issues, and therefore reliability risks, potentially leading to mass blackouts. Massive taxpayer subsidies and electricity bills will flow offshore for decades to the many “greenwashed” multinationals lined up for these subsidised “investments”.
This rally is a coalition of grassroots community groups united under the National Rational Energy Network. We call upon the Australian Government to:
1. Conduct an urgent Senate Inquiry: Establish a Senate Inquiry to scrutinise the technical veracity as well as the excessive economic, social and environmental costs of “renewables”, and the escalating risks to our national interest and security. This includes reviewing the committed, anticipated, actionable and future projects being fast-tracked by the Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment, and Water, in particular the Capacity Investment Scheme, Rewiring the Nation, Offshore Wind Projects, and expanding unelected overreaching organisations including the Australian Renewable Energy Agency, Climate Change Authority, Clean Energy Finance Corporation, Australian Energy Market Operator, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, and Clean Energy Council.
2. Suspend all “renewable energy” projects: We call on the Australian Government to convene the Council of Australian Governments (COAG) Energy Council and request all states and territories suspend wind, solar, hydro and associated transmission construction until the above Senate Inquiry reports.
3. Lift the ban on nuclear power: Nuclear energy has the lowest overall greenhouse gas emissions of any energy source as a result of its low land footprint, low material usage, and low waste output. The current ban is archaic, restraining Australia from achieving a strong reliable energy future.
This is a national grassroots call for a responsible and sustainable approach to our energy future. We urge the Australian government to prioritise the well- being of our environment, communities, and the future of our nation.
LIST OF SPEAKERS (note subject to change on the day) – note all relevant elected representatives invited:
[10.00am Mr Grant Piper] [10.10am Ms Gemma Pride] [10.20am Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price] [10.30am Mr Craig Kelly] [10.40am Senator Ralph Babet] [10.50am Senator Ross Cadell] [11.00am Hon Barnaby Joyce MP] [11.10am The Hon Dr David Gillespie MP] [11.20 Senator the Hon. Matthew Canavan] [11.30am Senator Malcolm Roberts] [11.40 Senator Gerrard Rennick] [11.50 Mr Llew O’Brien & Mr Colin Boyce MP] [12.00 Ms Katy McCallum & Mr Jim Willmott [12.20 The Hon. Tania Mihailuk, BEc, LLB, LLM MLC] [12.30 Music] [12.40 Mr Aidan Morrison] [12.50 Dr Anne Webster MP] [13.00pm Mr Russel Broadbent MP] [13.10 Mr Tim Dean] [13.20 Senator Pauline Hanson] [13.30 Mr Tony Pasin MP] [13.40 Mr Bob Katter MP] [ 13.50 Mr Steven Tripp] [14.00 Ms Mary Morris] [ 14.10 Ms Sybelle Foxcroft & Jonelle Neilson] [14.30 Mr Alan Moran] [14.40 Ms Amanda De Lore] [ 14.50 Professor Peter Ridd] [ 15.00 Ms Kate Mason] [ 15.10 Mr Paul Funnell] [15.20 Mr Kevin Loughrey] [15.30 Mr Geoff Grimshaw] [ 15.40 Mr Sam McGuinnes] [15:50 Mr Bruce Murray] [ 16:10 Mr Daniel Wilde] [ 16.20 Mr Rob Parker] [16.30 Mr Glen Isherwood] [ 16.40 Ms Vesna Cerroni]
MEDIA CONTACTS FOR INTERVIEW
Grant Piper, Chair, National Rational Energy Group, NSW National Rational Energy Network (NREN): 0438 890 242 or grant.piper@skymesh.com.au
Mary Morris, Mid North and Barossa Valley Community SA , Twin Creek Wind Zone, Mid North and Barossa Valley Community SA : 0438 066 634 or morrisdg@outlook.com
Troy Radford, President, Newcastle & Port Stephens Game Fish Club Ltd, Hunter REZ, NSW Hunter Offshore Wind Zone: 300+ turbines – 1,854km2: 0439 012 714 or pacificblue_plumbing@hotmail.com
Amanda De Lore, Illawarra REZ Offshore Wind Zone: 1,461km: switchedontomusic@hotmail.com
Katy McCallum, Kilkivan Action Group: 0408 742 860 or kag4600@gmail.com
Jim Willmot, Kilkivan Action Group, QLD: 0439 451 473 or jimmytecnam@yahoo.com
Bruce Murray, President HNTG Progress Association, NSW Hunter Offshore Wind Zone: 300+ turbines – 1,854km2: 0432 764 333 or Bmckmurray54@gmail.com
Bill Stinson, National Rational Energy Network (NREN): 0409 489 583 or stino@ozemail.com.au
SOCIALS: Follow us: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/RallyAgainstRecklessness/
Media Contacts:
Name: Sandra BourkeCompany: National Rally Against Reckless Renewables – 6 Feb 2024 – Parliament House 10am Email: recklessrenewables@gmail.com Phone: 0434151375
Image from the anti-renewables rally (Thanks Jim). Looks like a good turnout.
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I wonder what libel the legacy media will use to denounce the rally.
At least one of the speakers is Aboriginal, so I suspect they’ll give it the silent treatment. Aboriginals speaking about desecration of sacred land during the building wind turbines are about as welcome in Aussie mainstream media as black power people supporting Trump are in the US mainstream media.
Not at all. That is a cheap and self-demeaning shot.
Jacinta Price is one of Australia’s star politicians. She and her mother Bess Price (and families) are from Alice Springs and deserve high-praise for standing resolutely on principles that have nothing to do with race.
Bill Johnston
No Bill, Jacinta is an evil Alt White and does not correctly represent the traditional owners who have had 100,000 years of perfect harmony on this continent which clearly involved sustainable farming in large permanent towns and had nothing to do with killing off all the megafauna and/or burning down so much of the forests that the rainfall patterns changed. Clearly.
MSM know what is best for you, Bill. Don’t argue with them or you will be banned for… (gasp)… Misinformation!!!
YOU might know who Jacinta is, what she stands for and what she hopes to achieve, but you are not a trained MSM member, so you don’t count.
So far all I’ve seen is the usual ‘well-funded’ smear. This might change though.
The lefty media will largely censor it if they can’t find an example of bad behaviour to bag it-
Regional Australians | Sky News Australia
PS: Their censorship and cancel culture is as subtle as a brick through your window-
Anger erupts as Jordan Peterson is censored on YouTube (msn.com)
Did we get the ‘Completely Unrelated Third Party Who No One Has Heard Of Before Or Invited’ that can march up in neo 1930s Euro cosplay and decisively prove to the MSM that the entire rally was funded by…. (gasp) the Alt Right!! ?
It was all the proof Stairman Dan Andrews needed to prove biological woman had no right to speak in public a year or so back.
Amazing. A sea sponge in the Caribbean is enough to extrapolate this to GLOBAL Warning!!
We’ve already blown past critical 1.5 C climate threshold, sea sponge study claims. Should we believe it? (msn.com)
I read this earlier. So badly done, deemed not worth a post or comment. But now will.
A deep sea sponge, not a shallow ( here in Fort Lauderdale, 3 reefs
5- 30 meters deep) sea sponge. (‘A’ meaning from a limited sampled area a small part part of, NOT the whole Caribbean. My beach collected sponge spicules are all shallow origin.) Down where we already know thermocline temperatures are affected by ocean currents. And where we also know sea sponge spicule chemistry is at best a sketchy proxy for temperature alone—which is why previously sea sponges almost never were used before as a temp proxy. Not even by Mann, Marcott, or Pages2.
Novel but sketchy narrow geographic proxy extrapolated to usual alarmist global result. Very ‘climate sciency’. Alarmists are now probably scraping the bottom of their rotten ‘climate science’ Apple barrel.
Why don’t they just start at the last glacial maximum. Then they can talk about how many MULTIPLES of the pulled-out-of-their-asses 1.5 degree “threshold” of “warming” we have exceeded. 🙄
‘Reckless Renewables’. Better than ‘Renewables are Ruinables’. Reckless because Ruinable. I am going to ‘steal’ that rally cry and use it copiously.
A hope Down Under is finally catching on? OK, a faint hope, but hope nonetheless.
Ugly unreliables.
The net zero agenda is so farcical it might be prudent to bring along a troop of clowns, comedians and cartoonists who are best able to explain and depict the “logic” of the government programs for net zero.
TIP or ISSUE?
When I click on my bookmark, http://www.wattsupwiththat.com I get a screen showing the following.
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I can access this site using http://www.wattsupwiththat.com/2024/02/
Is this a feature of WordPress/some malware/nefarious actor(s), are others seeing the same fault? And yes, I’ve reset my browser, etc.
try HTTPS? We did have a few issues yesterday but the site appears to be functioning correctly today.
Today, I haven’t been able to open the ‘Mann vs Steyn’ posting, get the 410 Gone error.
Fixed…. I had problems with WordPress. Logged out and back again and all fixed. Strange one…. Or feature?
Just a bug likely, either in WordPress or the browser. Glad none of this stuff is running nuclear power plants…
Are you sure it isn’t?
Reminds me of an article I read in a computer publication some 40+ years ago.
The manager of a development team, attended a course on software development techniques.
At the introduction, the lecturer, asked “if your team developed the flight control software for an airplane, how many of you would be happy to board it?”
The manager, was the only one to raise his hand.
When asked why.
He responded, “If my team developed it, it would never get off the ground”.
I’ve known some programmers like that.
or climate models
This is a little bit of a surprise.
How big is this group that is protesting?
From here, it looks like they just appeared “out of the blue”.
Very much an active movement in Australia.
I received this from a credible source, and I know a few of the speakers in person. They have been campaigning against the growing green tyranny in Canberra for some time.
They’re not one group, more an alliance of a bunch of different grass roots group who are objecting to Aussie green tyranny.
WUWT has written up some of their past efforts (e.g. https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/03/19/widgee-say-no-to-the-lines-rally-meet-the-aussie-battlers-standing-up-to-big-green/ ).
I contributed to one of their meetings, they were talking about amalgamating into a single organisation, and I suggested not to. I said whoever is head of that organisation will make themselves a target, that a brush fire is the hardest kind of fire to fight, because there is no single place our opponents can focus to put it out.
Naturally they’re getting the silent treatment from mainstream media, or when mentioned are dismissed as cranks and extremists, but their demands are actually quite moderate. For example, though some are totally against renewables, many of the participants are OK with powerlines being built, but they want them built underground, where they won’t bother anyone.
“I contributed to one of their meetings, they were talking about amalgamating into a single organisation, and I suggested not to. I said whoever is head of that organisation will make themselves a target, that a brush fire is the hardest kind of fire to fight, because there is no single place our opponents can focus to put it out.”
That sounds like some good advice.
“How big is this group that is protesting?“
Here is a picture on their facebook page
We’ll see, that pic was taken a few hours ago. Most of them have to travel a long way to get there, which is why I couldn’t attend. Canberra is kindof a woke hot bed, like Washington DC.
Something like 6 hour drive or more for me. Each way.
And the family member who used to live there is now in Queensland.
So no, won’t be going.
I wouldn’t expect a big crowd in Wokanberra, but it is where the politicians are.
“Wokanberra”
Good one! 🙂
You’d wonder why that ridge in the background isn’t bristling with windmills too.
(Maybe emeritus Greens Party leader Bob Brown couldn’t put up with looking at them, and got them canceled, like he did at his retirement eyrie in the hills of Tasmania 🙁 )
Probably the same reason Martha’s Vinyard isn’t bristling with undocumented asylum seekers…
I know there are a couple of small solar industrial estates in the ACT, but I’m pretty sure there are not any industrial sized wind trudines.
Looks like you were right, Eric.
Here’s a pic from later in the day –
https://content.api.news/v3/images/bin/512cf54a952d6734819853aff38623e3?width=1024
Well climate change deniers, you know people with some common sense, in general have jobs to go to today and tomorrow.
BTW Nick, why do you h@te poor people so much as to want to feather your crony friends nests with grant money for settled science and money to the Chinese and European solar and wind bird chopper manufacturers.
AND ship Aus. coal overseas while continuously raising electricity prices through direct power bills and other hidden ways.
Just to hurt poor people.
At least there aren’t Palestinian flags.
You are bullshitting again Nick.
You know the ACT draws power from its own two piddle-little solar “farms”, wind “farms” at Bungendore, further south on the Monaro, the Cullerin Range gap, Crookwell and more.
The latest proposed “investment” is the the proposed solar farm near Yass, For all that, it is the farmers and communities they support that lose-out. Suck-it-up you say.
Busy people don’t go to rallies, so emptiness does not equal concern or public angst.
You also know clean energy is an inversion of reality, and the warming problem it is meant to fix, does not exist.
Yours sincerely,
Dr Bill Johnston
http://www.bomwatch.com.au
“You are bullshitting again Nick.”
??? Someone asked how big it was. I showed a picture from their site.
I know Nick. However, you are trying to make a point that bears no relationship to the scale of the issue.
How about for example, trying to show that increasing maximum temperatures at Marble Bar are due to the climate?
See: https://www.bomwatch.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Marble-Bar-back-story-with-line-Nos.pdf
Yours sincerely,
Dr Bill Johnston
http://www.bomwatch.com.au
Or for example, Rutherglen.
https://www.bomwatch.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/AWS-backstory-Rutherglen-01-Dec-2020.pdf
Cheers,
Bill
Or even Canberra
https://joannenova.com.au/?s=Bill+Johnston+%22Canberra%22
So why is climate clown Bowen and his merry Liberal mates doing this stuff??
Woops, I thought you would know.
Cheers,
Bill
Labor’s Minister for Moronic Energy Plans Chris Bowen has mates?
(If he does, I bet none of them would be conservative Liberals. They’re more likely to be the grungy Greens types)
Wish I could be there. Good luck to all attending. I hope there’s a million of youz 🙂
I just sent Nick’s facebook grab to Sean Spicer. He sayz at least that many….
R^3
Love it
Nick Stokes shared a photo of the rally when it had barely begun. Well I’m a part of that grass roots movement and trust me it has grown substantially over the past five years to well over a hundred different groups. What people forget is that Australia is a huge continent with a relatively small population so we are never going to be able to hold rallies like those in Europe. They are geographically small countries with large populations.
There were attendees from parts of Queensland, Victoria and South Australia which means they travelled there by plane most likely. Those from within NSW would still have had many hours of driving to get to Canberra as well as one or two nights accommodation. My point is that to attend the rally was costly and took valuable time out of a farmers work schedule. We were impressed with the attendance of the people who put in so much valuable time, effort and personal expense to get the attention of the politicians on their first day back in parliament.
Getup, which is along the same lines as the Antifa dress up crowd, tried to intimidate us with a flood of messages stating that they would effectively take over the rally with their presence and were asking their supporters for $12 donations towards signs that would outnumber ours at the rally. No one turned up! Then they had the gall to put out a message that they’d basically shut us down. All lies! We experienced none of the opposition we had expected.
We had amazing support from politicians speaking up for us as well as farmers and others from the regions who spoke really well. Peter Ridd spoke too, a name that you would all be familiar with. The government now know that there is considerable opposition to their renewables plan. And as we are many groups united it will not be easy for them to shut us down.