OPINION: NSW’s conservative government, has just upped the stakes on sustainability around the country – and shot so far to the front it will make the…
— Read on thefifthestate.com.au/columns/what-just-happened-in-nsw/
Revealed: Europe and the UK’s vast shipments of banned, bee-killing ‘neonics’ – Unearthed
— Read on unearthed.greenpeace.org/2021/11/18/revealed-europe-and-the-uks-vast-shipments-of-banned-bee-killing-neonics/
Of course, they couldn’t destroy these bee killing chemicals, not when ignorant folks in “global south” haven’t yet banned and can make money, eg. Australia!
Power bills up? Appliances burning out? You may have a voltage problem – ABC News
— Read on www.google.com.au/amp/s/amp.abc.net.au/article/10460212
if you’ve suffered any problems with burnt out appliances or rooftop solar PV shutdown, here’s the explanation
Victoria – new fossil hydrogen project promises to store unprecedented quantities of carbon – more than the entire capacity of the world’s dedicated geological storage today
— Read on reneweconomy.com.au/carbon-captures-litany-of-failures-laid-bare-in-new-report/amp/
here’s quick review failure CCS, in aftermath of #LNP Plan for net +15% by 2050, modelling outsourced to McKinseys for $6M, totally blind siding CSIRO…go Sharks
India argued the phasing down of fossil fuels should include not just coal but oil and gas, and be done on an equitable basis – but that didn’t suit big producers …
— Read on news.trust.org/item/20211116135552-uf1l7/
Electric cars are expensive in Australia partly because European emission standards reward manufacturers for selling them there. There’s an obvious fix.
— Read on theconversation.com/the-embarrassingly-easy-tax-free-way-for-australia-to-cut-the-cost-of-electric-cars-171919
Business won’t object. The Business Council asked for the change four years ago. Australian car makers won’t object. We no longer have any.
“Twenty years(!) after the standards changed, some distribution networks have still not caught up from the shift to the new 230V standard. Networks should not be allowed to charge solar customers to fix up problems that have existed for decades. Read more here: ow.ly/uPCV50GJV6W
Amazing, export tariffs can now be negative, much fuss about batteries and export/import and even more fuss about EVs, V2H and even V2G only to find, 20 years later, that 240VAC not fixed. Looks like big transnationals will keep our $ all to themselves for quite a while yet!
Climate Citizen: Australia, Captain of the Fossil Fueled Five, wins Colossal Fossil of COP26
— Read on takvera.blogspot.com/2021/11/australia-captain-of-fossil-fueled-five.html
Australia sure was excel-lent at COP26 Glasgow, a clean sweep of each day fossil awards and separately assessed award for the week. Congrats #LNP.
Facing multiple accusations of lying from foreign leaders, former prime ministers and the opposition, Scott Morrison says he does not take the “sledges” personally.
— Read on www.abc.net.au/news/2021-11-12/prime-minister-scott-morrison-says-he-is-not-a-liar/100614822
Sean Kelly, author of The Game – Portrait of Scott Morrison, says best example is his denial of ever uttering the name Shanghai Sam during campaign to get him dismissed.
He said it not once or twice but 17 times. No wonder he can’t remember lying to Macron!
If he can’t recognise truth or honesty, surely Parliament needs Motion of No Confidence?
At 38mins into this iView, Sean Kelly, author of book The Game -A Portrait of Scott Morrison, reveals confession by our PM that he has found it convenient to make himself “unembarassable”. Further, that he has a “flow brain” which continuously keeps him “in the moment” which means he is capable of convincing himself of the veracity of what he is saying now, even if it’s in conflict with what he says earlier or later.
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