NO NEED FOR DAM BUSINESS CASE
Steve, Belgian Gardens has come up with a text (TB, 27/06/2022) about a business case for Hells Gates Dam.
Now, all of us fair minded and aware people, know that business case after business case has already been done.
We know that government after government no matter what colour they are, are doing another case, or study just so that eventually the dam will not get built because it is up north.
Steve can sit back and take potshots at this project, hoping that we all are going to assume the argument against, will only get wings from his ilk.
The largest dam in the world is the Guri Dam, Venezuela, 162m high.
Venezuela is what we call a Third World nation yet they have found the intelligence to build a dam that supplies 47,000GWH of hydro-electricity.
Business studies were done in 1961.
Second largest is the Aswan Dam in Egypt at 111m high. Construction there started in 1960s.
When the hydro turbines came on line producing electricity, villages that had never seen electricity got to have lights for the very first time.
The food production this dam generates is hardly able to be measured.
The third largest is Ataturk
Dam in Turkey.
It is 169m high.
The business case was presented in 1970.
It produces 8900 gigawatt hours of clean hydro-electricity.
This dam irrigates 50 per cent of Turkey’s cotton crop.
Not to mention other food production.
Between China in number 4 and US and Canada next, comes in at number 8 the Tarbela Dam in Pakistan.
Commenced around 1960 with a treaty with India, this dam generates 3478MW of electricity, not to mention the irrigation for crops.
The 9th largest dam in the world is the Nurek Dam in Tajikistan.
I had to look up the location of this country on map.
It is not often we hear of this country at all.
However, having the 9th largest dam in the world makes it an honourable mention.
Again, the stored water is used for massive electricity generation and irrigation for food and fibre crops.
We have over 38,000 known large scale dams in the world, producing clean hydro-electricity, irrigation for food on a scale that is hard to gauge.
Tourism and eco protection of wildlife species are not even gauged.
Then we have Steve, Belgian Gardens.
He wants a business case for Hells Gates Dam.
All life needs water.
All intelligent life knows it needs water.
Steve, Belgian Gardens, please move to Mars.
Martians don’t need water. DEBRA GIBSON,
Pinnacles.
DEVELOPMENT PLAN WELCOMED
The Palaszczuk government and its Resources Minister Scott Stewart are to be congratulated for the release of the Queensland
Resources Industry Development Plan. The plan outlines a longterm strategy for the resources sector, which has been so vital to economic, employment and export performance of Queensland for decades.
It also ensures that the resources industry and the communities that depend on it are on the front foot as the world transitions to clean energy and lower emissions.
North and North West Queensland – with their rich reserves of critical minerals, wind and solar energy – are primed to play their part in this global transition and opportunity.
Minister Stewart says of the plan: “We already know that Queensland is home to many of the new economy minerals and metals that are critical to the production of renewable energy technologies such as solar panels and wind turbines, as well as gridcapacity batteries to store renewable energy.
“Our future opportunity is to move these resources from discovery to production to manufacturing – all in
Queensland. “We know that this reality won’t happen overnight, but our commitment to build a new industry – from pit to product – all in Queensland is a vision we are 100 per cent committed to achieving.”
As the proponents of the 1000km Copperstring electricity transmission to connect the North West to the national grid, the plan provides further impetus to the pit to product vision.
The plan, along with the upcoming 19-year Queensland Energy Plan, reinforces the state government’s focus on commonuser infrastructure and its key role in securing the future for the resources sector and for jobs and economic benefits for our regional communities.
The Queensland government, like the new Australian government, has recognised the importance of transmission infrastructure to not only power homes and industry, but harness renewable energy to ensure that electricity is stable, affordable and sustainable.
JOSEPH O’BRIEN, Managing Director Custring (proponents of Copperstring).
Origin 1. Blues get dodgy penalty with 3 minutes to go to try even up game. Game 2. Four or five six agains, penalty, sin bin to help even up scores before halftime. Cleary no case to answer for high shot even after being placed on report and leaving player concussed. I think we know who officials want to win Game 3. Sad to see refs keep their jobs if that’s the best they can do. Should be fined for bringing game into disrepute like players. T.E, 4850
Steve, Belgian Gardens. When we achieve your dream and it makes no difference to global emissions, what is Plan B? The Greens’ agenda is to shut down every coal mine in Australia, that provide the squillions in royalties to fund some of our essential services. Global demand for coal isn’t going to vanish overnight. W WENCK, CURRAJONG
The new Prime Minister is attending a NATO meeting. Pretty important considering the Russian invasion of Ukraine. So were the meetings of the Quad that he attended, which were aimed at tackling the threat from China. Of course Morrison didn’t travel nearly so much. He was too unpopular especially in the Pacific and in France and here in Australia too as the election result showed. NEV, KIRWAN
Instead of jetting around the world
shaking hands and taking selfies with world leaders who only really care about their own country how about sitting in parliament and governing? Albo will have been PM for nearly two months before parliament sits. Are you scared at what the job really entails? NEIL, NORTH WARD
Regarding mammoth discovery, Monday, June 27. Story of the baby mammoth being found in the Klondike goldfields of Canada had me intrigued, and fired my imagination. After 30,000 years, and being preserved in ice where its skin and hair was still preserved, it makes me wonder whether its DNA was still active? If so, would there be enough left over to clone it? D. BILTON, WEST END
Fires and flooding has been happening for centuries here in Australia and will continue until we actually do something to prevent this occurrence. When you restrict the flow of rivers and streams at its exit point to the sea floods will occur. When you allow build up of debris and fuel on the land severe bushfires will flourish. Haven’t we learned anything from history and observations of the obvious? MJ REYNOLDS, MT LOUISA
BM Harvey. Mate you could start and demand a house next door to you be turned over to housing for kids. You get a petition going and I will be the first to sign for your cause. LEE, CONDON
If a football team is over 150 points in front why wouldn’t you rotate your players, give your backmen some game time. Also gives your players more flexibility. ROSE, RASMUSSEN