Hi Team members,
On the 8/11/23 Optus had an outage for nine hours. Melbourne rail network shutdown for an hour. Hospitals disrupted. Ten million, Optus customers could not phone, text, Apps wouldn't work, they were helpless.
Now on the 10/11/23 four major Australian ports have been shut down after a major cybersecurity incident struck the nation’s biggest ports operator, DP World, with freight supplies frozen after it was forced to cut off internet to the operations.
The logistics giant, owned by United Arab Emirates (UAE) company DP World, made the decision to close its Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and Fremantle ports after it “detected and began responding to” a cyber incident on Friday.
IF OUR ENERGY MINISTERS CONTINUE ON THEIR TRANSITION TO UNRELIABES MADNESS, THE BLACKOUTS CREATED WILL BE A HUNDRED TIMES WORSE
WE MUST IMPRESS ON ALL OF OUR ENERGY MINISTERS THAT THEY HAVE THE NUMBER ONE RESPONSIBILITY TO GUARANTEE TO PROVIDE A CONSTANT, RELIABLE SUPPLY OF BASE LOAD ELECTRICITY, 24/HRS/DAY, 7 DAYS/WEEK.
OUR PETITION BECOMES MORE IMPORTANT THAN EVER.
Please promote our petition as widely as possible. https://www.change.org/p/blackouts-will-be-devastating-they-must-be-avoided-at-all-costs I would value it if you are able to donate $20 or $50 to promote the petition on Change.org and also promote it on Facebook, Twitter, Whatsapp or Email.
KEEP INFORMED BY DAILY MONITORING THE AEMO DATA DASHBOARD. And alert your friends to watch the AEMO dashboard, the more know what's happening the better.
Particularly at 7pm and 7am (Or a time that suits you?) watch (and record) the mix of coal, gas hydro, batteries, solar and wind generation and the prices per MWh for each State on the AEMO dashboard.
Example: 12 Nov 5.35pm EDST. Batteries 0%, Biomass 0%, Black Coal 37%, Brown Coal 11%, Gas 9%, Hydro 12% Diesel 0% Solar 15%, Wind 16% (The unreliables Solar and Wind total of 31%),
Another hour and solar goes sleepy-byes as the Sun has set. (Is it not madness, to have an electricity generator that is idle for fifteen hours every day and produces zero electricity).
And if it is a calm night as well, then the AEMO would be desperately needing those coal fired generators to be filling the gap left by the unreliables.
Unreliables can be cheap for a few hours. But it is the average over 24hrs, that matters on your electricity bill.
AND FOR KEEPING THE LIGHTS ON AND EVERYTHING FUNCTIONING.
We are up to 2,485 signatures, let’s increase it by many more, everyone’s future depends on it. Continue to spread the word, to all family, friends, anyone you meet, particularly discuss it with shop and business owners. Ask the question, “How do you plan to cope when the blackouts come? Are you thinking of buying a generator? I’m having second thoughts about the portable generator, but I have gas for cooking and heating. WE MUST KEEP THOSE COAL FIRED GENERATORS GOING.