The lunatics are running the asylum over there and their electricity problems have been getting worse and worse.
This first surfaced three months ago on March 18th with this: How not to manage an energy utility - Tasmania
In August 2010, Australia provided Julia Gillard with the means to introduce a carbon tax – which she cheerfully did. Among many other things, Gillard’s scheme made hydroelectricity artificially more price competitive in the energy market. In turn, Tasmania’s government owned hydroelectricity operator (Hydro Tasmania) became positively giddy with excitement… and greed.
And then, to profit from this, Tasmania's government drained their reservoirs selling off all of their stored water. In the middle of a drought. Read the whole thing - it just gets stupider and stupider.
And now today - from Eric Worrall writing at Anthony's:
Death in Tasmania: Australia Cloud Seeding Green Hydropower Disaster
JoNova has discovered that just prior to recent disastrous flooding in Tasmania, Australia, desperate hydropower operators conducted a cloud seeding operation, despite there already being forecasts of torrential rainfall.
The whole sorry mess started, when desperately green Tasmania attempted to go 100% renewable. Tasmania thought they were on a winner, and allegedly got greedy – they may have inadvertently burned out the power cable which connects the island state to mainland Australia, trying to sell too much premium “green” electricity to the mainland.
By burning up this cable, they can no longer sell their hydro power to Australia. They can't buy power from Australia either so with their dam running on vapors, they have a serious power problem. And then, the rains come:
Hydro Tasmania seeded clouds before fatal floods, despite forecast
Tasmania’s state-owned hydro-electric power generator could face legal action for damages after admitting it cloud-seeded in or near water catchments the day before disastrous flooding, although heavy rain was forecast.
Hydro Tasmania’s cloud-seeding plane was sent up on Sunday morning and seeded clouds with silver iodide to increase rainfall for an hour and 34 minutes, from 10.57am, despite the weather forecast.
The operation targeted the Upper Derwent catchment, an area that less than 24 hours later saw damaging floods which left one man missing, feared drowned at Ouse and caused major damage to property and stock.
The cloud-seeding also was within about 10km of the Mersey-Forth catchment area, which also hours later experienced rapid and disastrous flooding that killed a woman and inundated dozens of homes at Latrobe.
I really hope that the idiots that did this are fired. Not moved to another position in the organization, fired. This is incompetence on a surreal level.
Some of the 90+ commentors are from Tasmania so a lot of useful information there too - the greens were initially very opposed to the hydro project, now they think it is the best thing. Talk about consistency of thought...
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