- The Sun is the dimmest it has been for nearly a century. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8008473.stm
Environmental Debate
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Environmental Debate
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Bushland devastated by freeway works
01 Jun, 2010 12:46 PM
A CHORUS of disapproval has met the destruction of Frankston bushland and its flora and fauna to make way for the controversial $760 million Peninsula Link freeway.
Bulldozers have cleared bushland between Skye and Robinsons roads, parallel to McClelland Drive, which is known as sectionC by Abigroup, the construction partner of road building consortium Southern Way.
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Port of Hastings under Threat.
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Time we stopped this rapid growth of the population before we degrade our lifestyle any further.
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What's happened to the beach at Portsea?
Calm day, big swell, no beach, Portsea. Pic. K. Graddy 30 April 2010
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News re the Supreme Court Judgement on Bastion Point versus Madden
The judgement of Friends of Mallacoota vs Minister for Planning and Anor was handed down on 27 May 2010 by Justice Osborn at the Supreme Court of Victoria.
Whilst the outcome was not in our favour, we feel we won a moral victory on numerous grounds. The Justice found that there was no evidence that the Panel's assessment was other than a careful, fair and balanced evaluation.
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Windfarms
| Title | Wind farms: guidelines |
| House | COUNCIL |
| Activity | Questions without Notice |
| Members | KAVANAGH |
| Date | 27 May 2010 |
| Page | 34 |
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Maddens call ins - LET'S START A COUNT...
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Minister Madden Interferes Again - this time it's a Wind Farm
The proposed Yaloak wind farm has already been subject to a planning panel and the panel recommended against it in order to protect Wedge-tailed Eagles.
The then Minister for Planning accepted the panel report but later, in an interview on Stateline, encouraged a new submission suggesting there may be a different outcome.
ABC Stateline 7 April 2006
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Local Councils will be allowed to decide if they should have windfarms in their area under the Opposition's policy
Those concerned about windfarms will be delighted by the Opposition's statement that they will give planning power back to Councils to make decisions about windfarms in their area, instead of the decision being made by the Planning Department and Minister Madden
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Population growth: What's desirable and sustainable and what is inevitable?
In this "conversation" compered by Peter Mares, the big end of town's view was represented by Marcus Spiller and (in part) Saul Eslake, and the environmental/citizen's side by Mark O'Connor and Chuck Berger of the ACF, plus a speech from the floor by Mary Drost of Planning Backlash.
The video of the Conversation is now online on Slow TV.
See:
http://www.themonthly.com.au/population-growth-what-desirable-and-sustainable-what-inevitable-p1-2455 (and a shorter link to the same address:)
http://www.themonthly.com.au/population-growth-what-desirable-and-sustainable-what-inevitable-p1-2455 (and a shorter link to the same address:)
And on Radio National ---
Peter Mares writes
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Heaven and Earth, A New Look at Climate Change by Professor Ian Plimer
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Discussing Ian Plimer's bestseller on climate change
From: mark duchamp
"Ian Plimer concludes that the climate has always been driven by the Sun....
He describes the current theory of climate change as a new ignorance filling the yawning spiritual gap in Western society. "
June 22, 2009
Heaven and Earth, A New Look at Climate Change by Professor Ian Plimer
By Charles Wyatt
