YOUR VIEWS
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RE: Solar Council CEO John Grimes (Your Views, 6/11), thank you for your input.
Yes, as a homeowner with a solar contract I am concerned. I was encouraged to spend my own on fitting a system and have a contract until 2028.
How can the government cancel a contract which was taken on installation of a solar system?
I like many others spent thousands installing this and wonder how (when it suits them) they can renege. I would have thought a contract is a binding document.
I have also installed a solar inverter power system, solely for my hot water. This was more and has saved me 47.7 per cent of my last 90
day electricity bill. For people buying new houses this should be mandatory.
I have only used the boost mode twice in 90 days and only for an hour. The system will pay for itself inside a couple of years. CONCERNED VOTER, ELANORA MY SON and his wife have just taken out a new lease on the apartment they are renting.
They are relieved because, apparently, between now and the end of the Commonwealth Games, it will become increasingly harder to enter into any long-term lease.
The reason is that blood sucking landlords want to empty out rental accommodation leading up to, during and after the Games to extract the maximum amount of inflated rent out of the visitors here.
If this is an example of how the Gold Coast is supposed to prosper from the Games, then it’s a disgusting way for our young local people to be treated. SP, ELANORA HOW can any government loan an international company millions of public money to extract resources from our sovereign land with little or no local jobs available?
Can Adani show the public how many jobs are their for the locals, in Central Queensland? Construction of the site is only short term. PETER LAZER SEEMS the boring highrise Lego blocks are on the march heading southwards.
Having ruined Surfers Paradise forever, they are now about to infest Mermaid Beach.
The visuals shown in “Tower to rise on Millionaires’ Row” (GCB, 4/11) show how Sunland’s proposed monstrosity sticks out in its environment like a proverbial sore toe.
It would take more than the inflated description of a “curvaceous architectural language” to justify this development.
Passing drones or seagulls would be the only bodies to see these curves, as the “shimmering reflective glass” would blind anyone trying to catch a glimpse on a bright Gold Coast summer’s day.
We don’t need a “sculptured marker at the southern edge of Broadbeach”.
The lack of towers at Mermaid Beach gives it a sufficient edge to make it a desirable place to live.
Forget the fanciful language; this block is intended to be the thin edge of the wedge to allow beachside tower blocks further south. DOROTHY LLOYD, PALM BEACH