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It is great to see the Farmers out west in NSW standing up to be counted.
Over my desk I hear less regular- " thirty years we have been fighting and most have given up" - but this call is becoming more isolated as we do see signs, and hear loud voices of the rural people rise to combat corrupt and unworkable radical green driven agendas legislated by spineless politicians.
Positive rumblings are echoing rural unrest as seen in a small recently on the NSW south coast where established radical green cells collapse from people power exposing their fiction.
We have a stool pigeon on the way with information of the NSW DSE raid on a farmers home with search warrants in hand that we will bring to you soon.
We may not be a journalistic masterpiece here at SOS-NEWS, but we have the full attention of government, media and over 44,000 online computers taking our publications, which we see reflected from many corners.
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The rain is here and the drought in some places is breaking. Lets hope this sky juice keeps falling - and in the right places
Speaking of places, incase any of you pollies have not noticed, the ocean is topping up from un-harvested run off as we see the NSW government forge ahead with the desalination plant. I guess work on that site will have come to a halt due to rain.
How long would they last in the private sector, spending the bosses bucks in the same manner they are throwing away your tax dollars? Only three years and nine months to go
Have a great long weekend
Mal Davies
(Editor)
NSW Rural Fire Service - VFFA Meeting
It would seem that the RFS white shirts are meeting tomorrow (Saturday 9th June) with Peter Cannon and his VFFA (Volunteer Fire Fighters Association), which on the top seems to be an ice-breaking venture from the Bunker at Homebush.
This can only be a good thing for volunteers as the VFFA was formed to give fire fighters a voice, which has been historically controlled within the RFSA (Rural Fire Service Association), and now we may see common sense prevail with positive results coming from the meeting.
Further information from our inside sources indicate the RFS is looking at SOS-NEWS closely.
We are kept constantly informed of their clandestine (hahahaha) antics.
We also remain vigil, happily sitting on databases and documents.
Why No Gas Study ?.
Ever since man discovered fire, he has been burning wood Since the Industrial Revolution he has been burning coal in ever-increasing quantities In the last 50 years or so, Natural Gas has provided domestic and industrial heat, and now, even peak-demand electricity as well.
For all of the 20th century, man has used nearly immeasurable amounts of petroleum products Every means of transport depends on petroleum.
All of these fuels produce 'Greenhouse Gas' or carbon as it is now commonly called.
Given these incredible amounts of spent and burnt fuels, surely we are at the stage where the effect on our planet can be quantified? Maybe our scientists can give us an accurate measurement of the carbon content of the atmosphere in say 1900, 1950 and 2000, so that we can see the urgency of the problem.
Don McLean
Bunyip Vic
Bugs to become spy planes
Insects implanted with advanced electronics would be used to infiltrate enemy camps and beam back live video footage under a program being developed by the American military.
Rod Brooks, the Australian-born director of the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology was involved in the research.
Radical Green camps could be infiltrated by flying moths fitted with spy-cams and recorders - except that our moles are already doing a great job.
The popular theme of growing more native trees to save the environment has become a furphy or misconception by the methods used to promote and plant them.
There are many organizations and corporations who have taken on the promotion of planting trees and they have grown into large bureaucracies.
These organizations have different agendas, some are growing trees through Landcare to sequest carbon and combat erosion, some are timber plantations for woodchips and a very small amount are grown for value-added timber products for furniture and home fit outs.
What isn't well promoted many of the trees planted have had their carbon credits allocated to polluting corporatist for a twenty year term. Even the trees planted under the Landcare banner by volunteers. Many of the energy companies got in early back in the 1990's and donated funds to Landcare to buy seedlings for planting free by volunteers.
The Managed Investment Schemes (MIS) in vogue now and being used by high money earners for huge tax concessions are into growing trees.
MIS usually have tri ownership of the investment and the term of the tree growing exercise is usually 15 years and at this duration would be for woodchip. They are sold in units that are related to hectares and the money put up by the client wishing to offset paying taxation pays in a lump sum for the rental of the land for the term, the preparation of the site, the planting of the seedlings, the maintenance of the trees for the term, and at the end of 15 years the trees are harvested and all the returns from this harvest go to the client who put all the money up in the first place. The land is owned by one party (usually Macquarrie Bank), the planting and maintenance by a tree planting contract company, the trees are owned by the client. The Landcare and the MIS ideals seem a good outcome for the environment. But is it?
What if these trees are destroyed by fire, or drought, in say 5 years after planting, all the carbon credits whether they were for the corporate polluters or to the environment have been taken back as pollution.
What is the status of the credits sold on the 15 to 20 year terms?
Do the polluters loose the remainder of the credit term?
The owner of the land with MIS won't be concerned, they have their 15 years rent up front and can start a new 15 year term. The contractor has most of their monies and the tree owner can claim insurance on the trees. The big loser is the environment.
Trees take in most of the carbon growing to maturity and start to release it again when they die and rot away.
The tonnes of carbon they sequest in growing is released in their demise. They make their own carbon credits for when they die.
How can we grow trees and steal their credits to sell to polluters?
We can lock up credits temporally when trees are processed into products as furniture, timber houses and various other high value added timber products for 70 to 100 years. Paper products from wood chipping are locked up only a few weeks before they eventually go to landfill and release their carbon.
If we want to steal the carbon credits to sell, then we have to buy more in 15 to 20 years time when these trees are wood chipped.
Who will buy these credits?
Maurie Killeen
You've Gotta be Joking
Frank Sartor, NSW Minister for Land and Development, has done it again, and again, and again - but this time he takes the cake.
The Snowy Hydro Scheme is on its last legs for a period due to the environmental flow releases being compounded by the drought this nation is suffering a drought that is a regular occurrence in Australian history, before, during and after white colonisation.
Now after the scheme resumed land all over the mountains for the sake of water, including the valley towns, hence inundating that which could not be saved, Sartor has done the unthinkable. He has enacted a 12 month interim heritage listing on the man made items that once inundated, are now reappearing in their water logged state, due to the unbelievably low water levels in our dams. In this case it is the Eucumbene Dam and the old township of Adaminaby. I presume Frank spoke with the Greens and was advised that the dam would be full again in 12 months
What a bloody joke!
Not only has he slapped a heritage order on the junk that was buried beneath the dam's surface, but he is hoping to rescue the financially bereft Iemma labor government by threatening fines of up to $1.1 million dollars, fines capable of being imposed upon those who wish to avail themselves of the low water levels and gather up a relic or two. You know, the junk that should have been removed prior to inundation, but considered un-important at that time and to be quite honest, still bloody unimportant.
This low water level is a once in a citizen's lifetime to see and experience this dried up lake and, to gather up the soaked junk for what ever reason is a damn site better than sinking it, with it never to be seen again, except by perhaps the odd hardy scuba diver that doesn't have the sense to go see the township for him, or herself while they can breath the air un-aided.
The satirical minister has seen fit to have this heritage order cover the entire lake bed, so if you happen to have mud on your shoes when you leave the bed from your sight seeing tour ( you want to be quick, for it requires water to make mud ), expect to get a bluey in the mail for a breach of this interim heritage act and thereafter, throw yourself at the mercy of Sartor re the fine value.
Theft I might add, that would actually be defined as the removal of the incredibly fertile silt that has washed down into this lake and all the others near and far, from the surrounding mountain sides that were scorched after the fiery holocaust we had due to Sartor's minister in arms management processes, Bob Debus. You know the man that proudly espouses his ministry's record of making so many national parks that his relinquishing part of one to a private tourist corporation in the Lithgow area, is not even missed.
Reason?
The recipient "Emirates" handed over a piece of junk land to the Debus cartel in lieu of receiving top level established national park lands, so they could build for themselves a little pricey retreat for the balance sheet. Land I also might add, that was established as a national park with your tax dollars, in yours and my name, so it could burn in the next conflagration and be sold off to prop up the financial sagging Iemma government.
Obviously with Debus having thrown his bowler hat into the federal Rudd ring, Sartor takes it upon himself to not only continue to cosy up to the big developing end of town and screw the little guy, but now, in our name and interests, considers that we all are concerned that citizens might take a piece of water soaked junk home for mantelpiece memorabilia.
Just in case you do, and hence fail to act as a responsible Australian serf, or is that slave, Sartor in his autonomous, dictatorial manner, flags possible fines of immense proportions hoping some wealthy sucker with a farm that can be stolen and turned over to Turnbull for carbon credit farming, will breach this fine ridiculous enactment and hence Iemma will further stroke the Sartor ego, for allowing him to pay the State's bills for another day with more fine revenue.
I am sure Sartor has two of them, for it is not possible to get this brain addled with just one. At least in Victoria you only get done for picking up firewood in the bush, here Frankie will have you in chains for taking wood that is too wet to burn.
The thing to remember people, is that an orange revolution in this country will never have to face off tanks, for the corporate magnates will not allow the international indignation of them spewing carbon into the air as they rattle to their positions and hence devalue the generated carbon credit value the magnates now enjoy via stolen carbon reductions from the farmers hard work.
Brumbyy (with 2ys)
They Are Resigning in Mass
NSW south coast greenies from Batemans Bay, as far down as Broulee, are heading for the hills.
It would seem that another 18 - 20 Radical Greenies have thrown the towel in as pending inquiries into the Long Beach funding fiasco may bring into the equation personal assets of perpetrators.
The new Long Beach Area Improvement Group will now be operating under a new name and actually represent the residents after the radical green control resigned after being exposed as fraudsters.
Keep your "Rural Radical Green Watch" forging ahead as the intelligence gathered at Long Beach turned over rocks that revealed clandestine dealings of the Gang Greens.
Kids Fishing Now Need to complete 9 page DSE Permit
No more fun or fishing with the kids until you have a government permit.
July 1st will see the NSW South Coast Marine Park start operating like a Nazis concentration camp.
To get a permit requires filling out a 9 page application form asking the names of the all the people, what boat you will be using, etc, etc, etc, for the DSE Green Gestapo Fuhrer Lisa Corbyn (pictured) under which these Marine Parks are controlled from.
DO NOT FORGET you are required to taking out a $10 million public liability policy and - wait for it ! - sign an exoneration for the NSW government and the
Environment Minister against any liability - not sure if that also includes STUPIDITY.
I cannot begin to describe this Gang Green bureaucratic lock it up control of our heritage land being a bloody invasion of the Australian peoples heritage.
Take a look at this document and get as wild as I have.
Human micro-chipping gets closer every day - George Orwell, you were right.
So do we fight, or line up at the vets along with dogs and cats to appease the agenda driven implementation of elected government becoming their master's master in total control.
Rivers of soup?
A Snowy Mountain creek after 2003 fires - note river soup and ash
The Victorian Dept of Sustainability and Environment (DSE) writes in an email that the recent fires in Victoria are a natural event, that the flora and fauna will survive and within a couple of years everything will return to normal. An outside consultant, an independent naturalist, skilled in counting animals in isolated locations around the Alps, contacted this week, agrees with that assessment in relation to the animals.
That is so good to know and the reader would be justified in asking why we need, not only a bi-partisan Victorian Parliamentary Inquiry but a "People's Inquiry" into the issue?
The Victorian Parliament Environment and Natural Resources Committee started their deliberations on June 4th. The Committee is truly bi partisan, except the Greens did not want to be represented on it. This ensures that, whatever the outcome, the Greens will reject the findings as a matter of course and keep their distance.
Since the fires, there has been a notable absence of Green activism to "Lock It Up and Leave It". They have not been heard in relationship to these fires. One must wonder why not?
Eminent Bushfire Scientist Dr David Packham and Prof. Peter Attiwill of Melbourne University have constituted the panel of the People's Inquiry and will present their findings to the Parliamentary Inquiry. David Packham was the author of the critical report into the Linton fire disaster, a report that is still under wraps. Why?
If the DSE is correct and everything will return to normal in a couple of years, why do we need an Inquiry?
It is true that huge numbers of woolybutt trees were killed by fire. This is the tree that gives the timber industry its "mountain ash' for commercial use. The problem with these deaths is that according to CSIRO and Melbourne Water scientists, the new seedlings will need water for the next two hundred and forty years. Forest water run off into country reservoirs will be compromised for that period. Is it right to neglect our forests so much that we deny posterity their water?
Not every animal and bird was lost. A noted ornithologist
accessing his records for bird sightings prior to the 2003 fires and then
perusing the extent of the 2003 fires from the DSE website and noting the areas totally burned
calculates that the 2003 toll of bird life is in terms of many millions. Not all birds are capable of fleeing those flames.
The issue of erosion seems to have been totally overlooked by DSE. The excessive temperatures of these fires have 'cooked' the earth, in places as deep as a metre or more, which is bad news for slow moving burrowing animals.
It's worse news for country human communities though as the fires were followed by rainfall that, unable to penetrate the ground in much of the forest, washed away the dust of cooked earth in other places, exposing huge areas of bare rock that cannot support any flora or fauna. Perhaps DSE doesn't recognise the effect of erosion but very few native flora and fauna will find a habitat there.
On Saturday June 2nd, visiting the Crooked River area of the Alps, the river was the colour and consistency of Brown Windsor soup, typical of the fare dished up to travellers on the railways in the UK. Close up the river has large banks of soil within centimetres of the surface instead of the clear, deep water of old.
At Licola, the Macalister River continues to run with the colour of tomato soup, possibly the effect of phoschek used for fire fighting. This area, so badly burned and eroded in the 1998 Caledonia fires was, again, severely affected by the fires which this time burned so hot that the soil was impervious to water and in the Target Creek area flooded, washing a great deal of property down stream. Forest activist and naturalist Mr Ralph Barraclough was alerted to the flood when townspeople reported seeing his equipment being washed downstream.
The General Store, the Lions Village and most dwellings at Licola were affected. They were closed for many weeks while the damage caused was remedied.
There were no fires east of Buchan in East Gippsland Shire and that area has had good rainfall - but the East Gippsland Water Authority has had to effect water regulations because both the Mitchell River, that usually deep, clear swift flowing water source and its partner, the Tambo River are so dirty it is impossible to provide drinking water from those sources. Needless to say, fishing is affected as much as drinking water.
North of the Great Dividing Range, the Goulburn River was as badly affected as the rivers to the south. At Woods Point a consultant advises that a great deal of bottled water and ale was consumed because the fires surrounded the township and contaminated all water. Communities downstream were likewise affected.
Two rivers not affected by fire were the Thomson and Jordan. Both these rivers flow into Melbourne's Thomson Reservoir and strenuous works were undertaken to keep the fire out. (Refer to SOS News June 4th for a photo of the firebreak, part of hundreds of kilometres of firebreaks constructed)
Having been directly involved in 4WD Club activities over the past 25 years I have experienced the anger of land managers regarding the inappropriate activities of some hoon drivers. I trust that they will never again take a 4WD'er to task regarding inappropriate behaviour. The environmental damage they have done to justify their lack of fuel reduction activities beggars belief.
It's really quite startling to see the differences between the well equipped, and organised Melbourne Water fire fighting force, as Esplin reported in his 2003 bushfire inquiry Interim report and the fire fighting management of the land that doesn't have water destined for Melbourne.
It is very difficult to reconcile the nine to five attitude of public servant land managers and fire fighters with the lengths that private land holders go to, to protect, not just their own property but their neighbours as well.
Not for the last time, I suspect, I accuse Minister for the Environment in the Victorian Government, The Honourable John Thwaites, M.P., M.L.A. as well as his predecessors of environmental vandalism.
Sir Humphrey Appleby (of "Yes Prime Minster" TV Fame) is alive and well, working in Premier Bracks Office. Having a lot more for his lunch than Brown Windsor soup.
John Cribbes.
INVITING ALL VOLUNTEER FIRE FIGHTERS TO JOIN THE VOLUNTEER FIRE FIGHTERS ASSOCIATION.
For further information please contact Peter Cannon - (02) 6869-7634
Mobile - 0428-697-634 or 0427-697-608
NSW Volunteer Fire Fighters - JOIN TODAY
NSW volunteer fire fighters have watched the development of the MAP based risk plans (starting with the Canobolas plan in the central west) and see this planning process as the way to get their voices heard in the planning and implementation process-it encourages locals to become engaged with each other in their various brigades and zones -working together, developing the experience that many of our volunteers have acquired over many years of service.
This can now be captured in the MAP based TENURE blind mapping model risk plan. Join with the VFFA AND BE A PART OF THE WORKING MODEL.
This will give you an opportunity to make a difference-Join the VFFA today..
The RFS is working on improving the planning process and needs your help to drive and deliver the outcomes of fuel reduction, that these plans will identify,
Another bonus will be the better allocation of strategic equipment, shown up in the planning process- better resourced we are making a difference
You can help with this by identifying type and size of equipment to meet the variety of conditions we all experience across the state
We are doing this with our GUM TREE meetings in the central west -start today to get yours up and running.
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ACT Water - Act I Scene IV
Press Release:
Chief Minister Jon Stanhope announced the establishment of a high-level inter-departmental committee to identify possible ramifications of Stage 4 water restrictions on business and the community and to make contingency plans to address the likely impacts.
"Without significant, sustained and widespread rainfall over the next couple of weeks it is highly likely that ACTEW will be forced to impose State 4 restrictions next month," Mr Stanhope said. "As this will effectively mean an end to outdoor water use, I have today (June 4th 2007) established a high-level committee to identify the impacts this could have, in the short and longer-term, on all aspects of life in Canberra including sporting activity, business, the economy, the incidence of health risks associated with dry conditions such as asthma, and other health issues which may be impacted such as mental health.
Mr Stanhope said he expected the inter-departmental committee would call on the expertise of a broad-ranging advisory committee, which would be an extension of the expert committee already appointed to provide advice on water security.
Editorial:
So just a month out from imposing a State 4 water restriction on the people of Canberra, it would seem from that the penny has dropped in the Stanhope camp that there is a national water crisis.
He has produced - "a high level committee" - what do you think that could mean other than a bunch of $150,000 a year bureaucratic desk mammals dealing out self proclaimed expertise on any subject at anytime to protect the arse of their employers.
Not top heavy or loaded enough yet - "enter the broad-range advisory committee to call on the expert committee and the tax dollars just roll on.
This is full forward in reverse planning - something we have grown accustom to with decades of unaccountable governments.
After all they were elected by the people to govern - so put your hand up if you gave this mob an "X" on polling day?
Amazing not one hand - it's the same result in every state.
Garrett is far from the Good Oil
Resident Labor Party Radical Greenie Peter Garrett, Shadow Minister for the Environment, reflects his inability to comprehend fact from the ever green driven agenda "at any cost" mentality he reflects daily.
Garrett is quoted as saying, "Labor had set a target to reduce Australia's greenhouse gas emissions by 60 per cent of 2000 levels by 2050.
What this politician has projected on behalf of the alternative federal government to achieve these emissions cuts by 2020, would shut down the country's entire coal-fired electricity network and take every car off the road.
It is a shame that Garrett is not working on this for the Greens party where he would be a major contributor to their speedy demise as millstones dragging the people's environment to destruction.
Garrett Installed in a major party was music to the ears of Bob Brown as he witnesses his greens party battle lines collapse from nil results over the past conducted TAS, NSW and VIC state elections.
He can now look forward at the Federal polls where an even greater slide will occur as the people awaken to this dangerous groups venom.
Brumbyy (with2 Y's)
Letters To The Editor
On the continuing saga of Malcolm Turnbull, Merchant Banks et. al., the Weekend Australian editorial for May 19-20 contained the following sentence: "It is extraordinary that companies such as Macquarie Bank have been able to invest in water infrastructure in Britain but are barred from doing so in Australia."
Actually of course, that is not true.
As I recall, Adelaide's water supply was sold to Thames Water quite a few years ago. Then Thames was bought by RWE. RWE recently sold Thames Water, or part of it to Macquarie Bank.
What is interesting though is that the Australian should so blatantly promote a move by a merchant bank into water, which is exactly what Turnbull is up to.
Don McLean
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Frank Sartor, NSW Minister for Land and Development, has done it again, and again, and again - but this time he takes the cake.
To get a permit requires filling out a 9 page application form asking the names of the all the people, what boat you will be using, etc, etc, etc, for the DSE Green Gestapo Fuhrer Lisa Corbyn (pictured) under which these Marine Parks are controlled from.
