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Greenhouse gas
When the oil companies arrive in Southland and prepare to frack and drill our farmland for oil and gas, what will we tell them?
Governments around the world have signed agreements to reduce greenhouse gas in an effort to avoid destructive climate change.
Our government has signed the agreement.
Our regional council has signed a similar agreement to reduce greenhouse gases in the region.
Drilling for oil and fracking for gas adds greenhouse gases to the atmosphere.
Those gases will increase the threat of damage to farming and our towns and city from climate change. Will the Government tell the oil companies to go home? Will the regional council tell the frackers to pack up and find something safe to do? Robert Guyton Riverton
Cow’s milk
I refer to Jenny Moxham’s letter in the Southland Times, Oct 20th, ‘‘Milk Powder,’’ and totally agree with her that cows’ milk is produced with just the right formula to grow baby calves to huge 600kg cows in a very short time. Naturally occurring hormones in cows milk are present in all dairy products, so human consumers get a whack of those every time they consume it and wonder why they put on weight. Dairy products can contribute to acute constipation in children. Instead of making bones stronger, as the dairy industry has touted for generations, too much protein in our diets can sap the calcium from our bones.
Western countries, Australia, NZ, UK and USA, that consume the highest amount of dairy have the most prevalence of osteoporosis.
To top this off, cheese, which most people find hard to give up, contains huge amounts of casein which is highly addictive.
Check the net to find how calcium is available to us in many healthier, kinder forms in abundance. Diane Cornelius Seacliff Park, South Australia
Today’s world
Oh my how the world has changed, a man and a woman go into a toilet at an airport and some punter watches and takes a movie and before you know what where or why it is splattered all over the world. I wonder how the movie maker feels now and will he come forward and be named and shamed, and or even stump up with half the man’s match fee he is missing out on?
I bet not, I wonder if he now even rues his actions.
If this had just been any old Tom, Dick, Sally or Henrietta going to the toilet together, would they have been filmed or does this person get his kicks in life out of filming couples at airports just using toilets at the same time?.
We now know better, because of his actions (the movie maker), and the way the media hung them out (the toilet users) to dry, that at least one of the persons going into the toilet was a person of wellknown identity, a super hero in the eyes of many, so maybe the movie maker gets his kicks out of filming well known people going to toilets, only at airports or do those well-known people who use public toilets frequently around the world have to be on watch for a movie maker with a sharp eye and a cell phone lurking nearby.
It beggars for me to wonder what the hell sort of a thrill the movie maker was looking for or, is he a part of a larger group the ‘‘TOILET LURKING MOVIE MAKERS LEAGUE Inc.’’
Beware, take care, be-warned all well-known identities, in your toilet movements especially round airports. Jack Sheehan Ettrick
‘Yes sir, no sir’
The comments made through this column in the last few days by Armstrong and Ramsay slamming my character regarding my opinion of Environment Southland and Timms and Miller are unfounded.
Following my letter to this column, I had eight phone calls from people in the Eastern Southland area from people I didn’t know, including one from a farmer whose family have been farming in the area since 1904.
They were all totally supportive of my comments and all have had a guts full of Environment Southland and it’s PC bureaucracy and like me were elated to see the last of Timms and Miller.
Unfortunately while you have pussycats like Armstrong and Ramsay being eligible to vote you will always have the ‘Yes sir, No sir, Three bags full sir’ types sitting around the table. Gary McEwan Wyndham