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Post #282,978
by Meerkat
4/24/07 9:48:13 PM
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New Financial, or environmental?
There's a push for a coal-fired desalination plant in Sydney - though generally it seems it's only the politicains pushing it. The general populace feels that it's very much a wrong-hdeaded solution. (no, can't be arsed finding real numbers to back this up).

I think the govt recently reduced the incentives for households to get their own rainwater tanks, which beggars belief.

From this I can only conclude that the State Government must have close ties to companies that build coal-fired desalination plants :)
Two out of three people wonder where the other one is.
Post #282,985
by static
4/24/07 10:01:39 PM
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New Oh, they do.
Heard it on the radio yesterday that the coal industry has not only had lobbyists in Canberra for decades, but they are former public servants. And they brag to each other about how they write policy. They, quite simply, have access to the halls of power that no-one else has. And the other groups trying to lobby for more environmental approaches have discovered this are starting to cry foul.

More: the voting public is getting sick of it, too. The Howard government may have to choose, soon, between the coal industry and the voting public. I know if they piss off the voters enough, they lose government, but I'm not sure what would happen if they push the coal industry out of Canberra. Or even if they can do it at all in eight months.

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             (dup - ignore) -NT - (static) - April 21, 2007, 01:47:34 AM EDT
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         Anyone know the cost of a de-salinization plant? - (lincoln) - (4) - April 24, 2007, 04:57:53 PM EDT
             Financial, or environmental? - (Meerkat) - (1) - April 24, 2007, 09:48:13 PM EDT
                 Oh, they do. - (static) - April 24, 2007, 10:01:39 PM EDT
             Going on here in Texas - (SpiceWare) - (1) - April 25, 2007, 11:41:23 AM EDT
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