Getting some nice winter rain now but way below average, but had the driest summer on record: no significant rain from about September to May (from my hazy memory).
But that doesn’t stop idiots here having their sprinklers on watering the roads and footpaths three times a week.
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Watering footpaths. The Australian Dream.
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Here is what the local government minister, Kristy McBain, had to say this morning:
Peter Dutton and David Littleproud are treating regional people like mugs.
We have had an absolute gutful of this.
Standing in the middle of Sydney to announce seven locations for nuclear reactors, not having a single word of consultation with any regional communities is an absolute farce.
If they’re serious about changing the energy mix in this country, they should go out and consult regional people.
Hearing Peter Dutton in an interview last week say frankly, we’ll tell regional people about the benefits of nuclear, is an absolute joke.
Well stop voting for them. You absolute mugs.
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A Greeks right.
I believe (serious) their proposal is to consult for 2.5 years!
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You could loosely excuse that sort of move if it was being done to add to domestic supply exclusively but it’s not.
Bought and paid for is the “environment” minister
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Has already put out a pathetic press release about this, saying that she was only implemented the law which did not allow her to act otherwise, and generally pretending she’s a helpless and powerless instrument of fate.
As if she’s not, y’know, THE FKG GOVERNMENT and that a climate trigger on fossil project approvals (that’d block this sort of bullshit) wouldn’t pass parliament in record time if the ALP were willing to let it.
Plibersek can get in the bin. I expected nothing from Dreyfus in this government, and even less from Albanese, but she’s been the biggest disappointment.
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The French media are reporting a proposal by a private company to build a micro SMR to exclusively supply a Cristal Union Plant. Cristal Union is a sugar beet manufacturer with a range of processed cosmetics and other products. It has the status of one of the largest carbon emitters among French plants.
The proposal is before the Government, linked to French targets to reduce emissions.
I started my career by spending a year working on the CSG construction. I’m personally not concerned about the groundwater issues and I can justify the gas extraction. What I was never comfortable with was the scale of forest clearance required to access the gas fields. I know that there is intent to rehabilitate the pads and roads at the end of the project, but the scale of clearance for roads, pipelines and drilling pads was truly huge. You can see it on google earth if anyone is curious.
by the length of a street.
generally horrible in her role
FFFS!
How fkg stupid are they?
Good example of a climate extreme predicted from global warming.
More heat = more energy = more extremes
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That CNN article is a few months old. Here’s a more recent CNN article:
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And you just know that “rehabilitation” means planting a couple of trees and putting up a “do not walk on the grass” sign in the middle of an arid, toxic wasteland.
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Throw down some seeds and hope they grow. If they don’t… shrug and just say the budget is spent.
What’s your point. The article is referring to a season.
Use your brain
What is your point posting an article published 3 months ago?