Hello, India, Hong Kong, Sweden, and Canada...and welcome to the blog...sorry for late post and potentially appalling attempts at humour, but it's been a long day of not achieving much other than walking 4kms to the shops (round trip), and clothes washing, and some housework...there's always plenty of all that shizzle to do...(well you will be a large, angry, smelly, hippy-Ed)...indeed, I already am...
But First: down the gurgler...is the diagnosis for South Australia's economy, particularly in Adelaide's Northern suburbs where the Holden factory closure (Elizabeth Plant) will impact the hardest...(butt first, head first, what's the difference?-Ed)...with similar trauma being experienced in Victoria, trauma compounded by multiple closures and/or job losses, including just this week with Boeing and Phillip Morris...(one is sorely tempted to observe that Victoria is getting the Catholic Contraception method from these companies-Ed)...sorry, I'm not with you...(well they're withdrawing before all the money is shot-Ed)...oh nice...
And it is traumatic to lose your job through no particular fault of your own and be looking at a very uncertain future other than down a bloody mine somewhere...and it's good to hear Labor Premier Jay Weatherill (SA) and his Liberal Victorian counterpart Dr Dennis Napthine exchanging purile barbs about who's done what and who isn't doing the other...(really, let's call the whole thing off-Ed)...but in Dr Napthine's defense he did have a specific figure, $100million, that he claimed Labor/Weatherill had failed to stump up as promised for retraining, etc.
(I believe they actually call it 're-skilling'-Ed)...what, after they've been 'liberated' from their current full-time employment and transitioned onto 'Aspirational Employment Agendas'...(you mean sacked and dumped onto dole-queues?-Ed)...I do, but "liberating" is the exact term that Prime Minister Tony Abbott used to describe the closure's effects on workers...(ah yes, 'I'm not giving General Motors any more money and they'll close but I'm just liberating those workers to get better jobs'...a paraphrase centred on the quote "liberating"-Ed)...phwhat an arse...
Responding to Dr Napthine's specific reference to "$100m", Premier Weatherill's witty retort was a triumph of diplomatic petulance, stating 'we'll talk about it when Dr Napthine wants to have a mature discussion'...(because Jay's the mature one...huh, phwat an arse-Ed)...it strikes me that one side of that 'discussion' had a specific figure they were prepared to identify, and indeed this amount has been reported previously as being SA Labor's response, and the other side was purely derogatory and abusive...(yay Team SA-Ed)...but I digress...
I feel I must apologise a bit when it comes to the Wind Turbine Issue because it has been one of the casualties of my recent attempts at addressing so many other issues, itself compromised by a goodly amount of 'burnt-out'...and also thanks to those still sending me related stuff, eg, links, articles. etc...I immediately refer availees to the sort of websites I'm perusing, sites like 'Stop These Things', and/or 'National Wind Watch', the Waubra Foundation, the Australian Industrial Wind Turbine Awareness Network, etc.
Please refer to my previous posts re Wind Turbines for a reasonably accurate synopsis of the Development Plan Amendment as first introduced in November 2011, and the subsequent reality that it presents for Regional Sow Strayans...
There's been some fascinating stuff on the above sites in response to the National Health And Medical Research Council's (NHMRC) recent declaration that there is 'no science proving any negative health issues with Wind Turbines' and the direct inference that therefore there's nuthin' wrong with 'em at all...and of course the Australian Medical Association has jumped straight on that bandwagon in mimicking/referencing the NHMRC drivel...and I'm not sorry for being so abusive because for 2 such allegedly responsible organisations this is some right bollocks.
(And when you say 'bandwagon' do you possibly mean 'gravy-train'-Ed)...what are you suggesting Ed?...that the NHMRC and the AMA are acting in such an unprofessional, unscientific, and biased manner because they have external influences and/or fiscal priorities and/or career aspirations that compromise their objectivity and therefore undermine their statements re Turbines?...(um, yeah, I think that's what I said-Ed)...
Is there anything less scientific, less medically ethical, than denouncing a potential problem as being non-existent before the appropriate testing is done and conclusive evidence gathered...(well yes there is something even more un-ethical and inappropriate, and that would be saying that something is hunky dory and using that lack of investigation/evidence as the reasoning-Ed)...fair point...and who are you so learned in the ways of science?...(I am your king-Ed)...my liege...
Seriously though, how completely inappropriate and unethical to state unequivocally that there are no health issues stemming directly from Wind Turbines, and base that conclusion on a lack of data...sure, do some appropriate testing, gather the data, and then when the evidence shows there's no connection, then the NHMRC and the AMA can cut crook about it all they like...and clearly they like...and I don't thank them for their rabidly biased misinterpretation of the reality that would seem to be entirely indicative of a pro-Turbine agenda.
And when I talk about testing I don't mean the sort of dodgy, bit-piece, bullshit, half-arsed, hide-the-equipment-under-a-tree kind of testing that passes for science at the SA Environmental Protection Authority...there are various 'Acoustic' studies that I've seen referred to that indicate that there are noise and pressure issues stemming from any propeller style apparatus, but it hasn't been specifically applied to Wind Turbines...(well not quite...there is some-Ed)...ah yes...
Steven Cooper, a professional 'Acoustician' (and not to be confused with that A-grade idiot 'Professor' Simon Chapman) did his own testing parallel to the EPA nonsense at the Waterloo Wind Turbine Site...if you search 'Dr Steven Cooper Waterloo results' you'll find a whole bunch of references, quotes, etc, from Dr Cooper and others, eg, Dr Sarah Laurie of the Waubra Foundation.
I can't dissect that evidence, mostly because I don't understand the specifics, but it does to my mind confirm what I have experienced personally from standing near Turbines at Bridgewater Bay, Victoria, and at Lake Bonney, near Millicent...there are many levels of acoustic and 'pressure' issues with Turbines...and one thing that is undeniable, Turbines have been approved all over SA without appropriate testing...it's a fact Jack...
Strictly for balance I must reference sources of conflicting views, eg, the Clean Energy Council, but even then they are an industry lobby group, so their position is not one encumbered with objective observationings...(they should start a blog-Ed)...hilarious...I did have one particular link I'd like to pass on, and that's Senator John Madigan's most recent effort in Federal parliament from March 19th (?) 2014, available at http://www.johnmadigan.com.au/senate/senate-speeches-video/...check it out.
Beyond passing on this information there's not much more I feel that I can do at this time, but I'll continue to trawl through all of this Turbine stuff I've got in my emails, and if anything interesting comes up I'll post it...the harsh reality is that Fracking is a far more immediate threat to the South East...when the Turbines are rusted out and falling over, the Aquifer will likely be highly contaminated and decades if not centuries away from recovery...(yay-Ed)...
Tomorrow: Three Little Words
No spoilers today but I look forward to y'alls company on the morrow...
I am Nick Fletcher and this is my blog...cheers and laters...
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