Green Shell beached | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog

Royal Dutch Shell provoked a furious backlash from campaigners yesterday when it announced plans to scale back its renewable energy business and focus purely on oil, gas and biofuels. Jeroen van der Veer, the chief executive, said that Shell, the world’s second-largest non-state-controlled oil company, was planning to drop all new investment in wind, solar and hydrogen energy.

Column - Garrett grows up | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog

As a rocker and celebrity activist, Garrett could once say anything, no matter how false, and often did, just like a teenager, badly parented.

Column - Green mafia hoovers your wallet | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog

IT’S the green mafia at work. The Brumby Government forces you to pay extra to prop up wind farms owned mostly by union-backed funds.

THE SOUND DESK OF STUPID | Daily Telegraph Tim Blair Blog

The film is so cretinous it makes Michael Moore look like a modern-day Bergman; so scientifically vacuous it makes Lysenko look like Einstein; so achingly middle-class it makes The Good Life look like a kitchen-sink drama about miners’ wives.

Indeed, the film’s only virtue – and admittedly this is a big plus in its favour – is that it has exposed finally, beyond all reasonable doubt, the ugly elitism and end-of-days mania of the environmentalist movement.