Renewables not a solution
JOHN Pratt (CP, 15/07). John again I admire your passion and beliefs about renewables.
In saying that, your comments about saving the Reef because of reduced fossil fuels use are factually incorrect. Your comments about millions of jobs created by doing away with mining and transitioning to so called green energy are also unsubstantiated.
If we look at the science and facts and not the wild inaccurate predictions that “go green” supports seem to count as factually correct, then you will find there is no real threat to the Reef and green energy cannot and never will replace fossil fuel use or create the millions of jobs you quote.
As I have stated before there is nothing wrong with using Mother Nature to generate power where possible and we should have a hybrid in our mix, but to suggest green power can replace our current base load power is an unachievable notion unless we talk nuclear.
Electric cars are in the same category of playing a small part in the overall transport scenarios.
Paul Freebody, Cairns
Isn’t that equivalent to lying to the public or at least providing misleading information to the public?
Once the DA is approved then it is a different matter.
Until then, I say no to wrecking the last remaining public space with views over the Coral Sea with infrastructure.
No to wrecking a fish habitat reserve and no to mangrove and remnant vegetation destruction.
We love Machans Beach and value our privacy. We love our melaleucas in Arnold St.
Give cyclists a dedicated path through already depleted cane fields.
Phillipa Cannon, Machans Beach merely from Extinction Rebellion but consist of many local community groups as well as the Gimuy-Walubara Yidinji traditional owners, Humane Society International and many more.
It is not just a case that there are some pregnant flying foxes here.
Virtually all adult females are significantly pregnant at this time.
A planned dispersal at Charters Towers has just been cancelled because females are significantly pregnant.
Why is it then not cancelled here? Geoff Holland, Machans Beach 1940: Hitler gives orders to prepare the
invasion of Britain.
1969: US Apollo 11 spacecraft is launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida, (above) with the goal of landing the first men on the moon.
2005: The sixth volume of the Harry Potter saga goes on sale, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, selling nine million copies in its first 24 hours, a record not broken till the release of the seventh volume.
2017: Australian woman Justine Damond is fatally shot by police in Minneapolis after reporting a disturbance outside her home.
2019: The Queensland government commences legal proceedings against Adani Mining over claims it provided false or misleading information in an annual return for its Carmichael Mine.