Chris Smith: Now if you are a regular listener to this program or a regular listener to my previous radio and television shows, you’d know fairly well and clearly how critical I am of putting all the eggs in the renewable power basket. I think it’s madness. I think it’s irresponsible. and scientifically unfathomable. The green evangelists, which is just about every left leaning liberal politician looking for votes, they will tell you that renewables are the cheapest form of energy on earth.
How many times have you heard that? gee, you’d be rich if you were given a dollar for every time you’d heard that. And if you think about the source of the energy alone, the sun, and the wind it appears an obvious. Free kick for Earth. you just get it from the sun and the wind, it’s gotta be treat cheap.
But it’s a lot more complex and involved than all of that. that’s where the advantages start and finish. The energy required to produce 2-hundred-foot-high wind turbines and all the minerals needed to be mined to make solar panels are never spoken about. They don’t talk about that stuff. The subsidies required to keep the industry afloat, the replica transmission lines needed to firm all of that power onto the grid, the short lifespan problem that they face, and the inability to recycle these parts.
They’re never to spoken about either. No. The evangelist doesn’t talk about that stuff. And so, I get very excited when I come across individuals who don’t swallow the green BS, but they do their homework. And they start to campaign in their own way in their own places to make governments admit the truth.
The truth is renewables are not the cheapest form of energy. That is the truth. And they are not capable of replacing current baseload power, nor anywhere near as reliable. Both those statements are the truth, which brings me to a garden designer, someone who calls herself an evolution guru, whatever that means, and a resident of a small town in Southeast England called Colchester.
Rachel Matthews has been trying to teach her local Colchester counselors the truth About green energy all year. In fact, she’s rallied a large number of her neighbors in Colchester. who are now on the same page.
Now a few weeks ago, Rachel was given the floor at the council meeting to warn counselors about renewables. She started her speech by tearing down their faith in solar panels.
My office is solar powered. So, I was mortified to discover that a single lithium mine causes 1,000,000 of tons of waste every year laced with sulfuric acid and radioactive uranium, polluting the water supply for 300 years, not to mention the unacceptable human costs with child labor to mine Cobalt. When I researched which solar panel to purchase, I did not, for one minute, consider it would be made by people track in razor wire enclosed labor camps being exposed to large quantities of quartz dust which causes silicosis.
Rachel Matthews
Chris Smith: She was referring there to the Uighur people in China. She’s right. Caught that. Well researched, well delivered. and this is from someone who admits to being a supporter of green energy and a keen environmentalist since her twenties.
For most of her life, she’s been a greenery. But she wasn’t done yet. It was time to bring down those huge metal wind turbines. Wind turbines, which last about 20 years, consume a colossal amount of resources and energy to manufacture and install. not to mention the blight and bird kill. They require diesel engines to start them up, and then gallons of oil to lubricate, and they can’t readily be recycled, can’t be readily recycled. As a matter of fact, when you think of EVs, wind turbines, solar panels, all that we can do at this stage is to put them in a gigantic pile, and look at them. That’s it. The term inconvenient truths come to mind. Inconvenient alright, but all very salient points for the councilors Like most in Britain right now, councils are going headlong into a new green only future, aren’t they?
Earlier in the year, Rachel Matthews raised concerns over the environmental impact the production of batteries used in electric vehicles was having on the environment. She opposed the idea of public money being spent on any lithium battery operated vehicle, no matter how enticing the financial incentives are. She said, if everybody boycotts the electric vehicle industry, then this kind of thing stops. We have a duty to make sure these kinds of trust that he does not happen. Powerful stuff, but back to her latest lesson for the Colchester counselors, she finished her class.
This way, these so called green or ethical solutions aren’t solutions at all. Just very good marketing from the $1,500,000,000,000 a year climate change industry. That’s $4,000,000,000 a day, by the way. None of us can undo what’s already been done, but what we can all do is make sure this doesn’t escalate exponentially with fleets of unnecessary EVs and acres of solar farms eating up our precious farmland.
See, I get the feeling from what Rachel Matthews says, and I haven’t spoken to her directly, although I’ve sent a message to her. I get the feeling that she’s still a Greenie. She desperately wants to protect the environment and the planet, but she’s just done her homework. She’s not an evangelist. She doesn’t accept what she’s hearing without doing her due diligence, and she’s discovered that this is a negative way to try and reduce temperatures around the world.
If, of course, that’s what happened when you lower CO2. And so, she’s smart. She doesn’t run around flying the flag. She actually works out exactly what it means to be green, what it costs the planet to be green. Who gets killed along the way?
What money we spend along the way? Listen over. But Rachel Matthew seems to have established quite an anti-green protest group in the town of Colchester. This is fascinating. Instead of facing pro green protesters gluing their hands to the pavement.
This council has recently been disrupted by a large group of Rachel Matthews like protesters. Members of the concerned citizens group attended a full Colchester council meeting earlier this year. protesters, taunted counselors, billing and jeering, holding placards, criticizing council’s sustainable travel policy? Yes. and placards criticizing the promotion of electric field transport.
They were jeering and shouting and saying, we are watching you live. we are going to remove every single one of you, you’re hopeless. Amazing. It must be a world first. in these pro climate obsessed times.
It’s amazing how effective people power can be. even in the unknown town of Colchester, England.
Chris Smith
Chris Smith has had a remarkably wide and successful career in media… Starting off in 1981 in rural radio and TV in Moree NSW, Parkes NSW, and Bendigo Victoria, he developed skills in news reporting, presenting bulletins and live sports calling.
Back in the big smoke, he worked as a senior reporter for Seven News and travelled the world covering dramatic events such as the Tienanmen Square massacre, San Francisco earthquake and drug trials throughout Asia.
It was at Channel Nine that Chris not only made his mark as an award-winning reporter with “A Current Affair” but drove the show as it’s Chief of Staff under hosts Jana Wendt, Mike Willesee, Mike Munro and Ray Martin.
He was then poached by French media company “Lagardere” to broadcast from Beijing, as the first westerner to broadcast live in China on China Radio International. He was then elevated to the position of program director and deputy MD China.
On his return to Australia in 2000, he was appointed as Program director and Afternoon Show host at Radio 2GB Sydney…where he was instrumental in reviving a great media brand.
During his 22 years at Macquarie Radio, he took his Afternoon Show to number 1 for no less than 84 surveys…finishing with a commanding 13%.
That success continued when he switched to the weekend morning program for 3 years.
Chris was then contracted to Sky News Australia and hosted “Chris Smith and Friends” and “Chris Smith Tonight” each Sunday night…as well as floating as host for all the other night time current affairs shows.
He’s contributed to both Channel 7’s “Sunrise” program and Channel Nine’s “Today Show” over the past 20 years… and as a current affairs commentator on “Credlin” and “Paul Murray Live”.
Chris is now hosting a global news talkback program on TNTRadio.live, and multi-national broadcaster which has just celebrated its 5 millionth download.
