Transparency is key
In many presentations and information given to prospective councillors throughout the state of Victoria, transparency is defined as making all citizens within their electorate aware of how, when and why any decision is made.
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On these points alone it is obvious that current Wodonga Council has failed.
As this is currently an issue that affects us all, it surely incumbent on whoever makes up the next council to ensure this situation is corrected quickly.
Let us remember that when we vote.
Peter Smith, current candidate for Wodonga
Renewables not reliable
South Australia's intermittent 40 per cent wind power supply showed a huge failure to operate in all conditions.
This is the kind of problem that sees the system reaching for reliable coal, hydro and gas-fired power stations, which must always be on standby therefore wasting energy. That also failed this time. Apparently the engineers weren't asked by the environmental incompetents about this possibility.
For each new, renewable kwh installed an additional kwh of conventional, fossil kwh is needed to support the grid. Fossil power plants have the max consumption of fossil fuel and max output of CO2 when they are being powered up, not when they are running in stand-by or at regular capacity.To be fair it was an unusual event, but the whole state going out was even more.
The very company that intends to build a heliostat molten salt solar system in South Australia has filed for receivership in the US, and is asking for $100 million to start building here.
Spanish solar entrepreneurs face financial disaster as the policy makers contemplate cutting the price guarantees that attracted their investment in the first place. Anyone who can use google can find out about this. But for some reason investors are putting their heads in the sand.
Do you think they may have been misled? Anyone want to buy some solar shares? They will be cheap soon.
J. Vance, Wangaratta
Great town, great race
With the Bathurst 1000 upon us again, and the 10th anniversary of Peter Brock’s death last month, it has been a time when I recalled my contact with him over the years.
For many years, I operated the TAB in William St, and many of the motor-racing fraternity would call in to place a small wager on the race.
Every year, on the Saturday afternoon preceding “The Big Race”, there was a street procession down William Street, of drivers and their teams, where drivers sat in the back of open-top sports cars.
One day, in the 1980s,the vehicle containing Peter Brock and his co-driver, stopped in front of my TAB, and Peter jumped out. He rushed into the TAB, and asked for a box trifecta with seven car numbers ($210). He was in and out of the shop within two to three minutes, and back in the car. A loud ‘let’s go’, and the procession continued.
I always decorated the TAB with posters and racing paraphernalia, and my staff and I wore race shirts and caps.
Peter Brock was always very helpful with promotional material, and one year sent a full set of his racing gear, with the proviso that it was returned via registered mail – done – with thanks.
I enjoyed my 21 years in Bathurst – a great town, great people and a great race.
Mark Bloomfield, Lavington
Bank CEOs in charade
At what stage of wealth and power does fraud cease being a crime, punishable by law, and morphs into a “mistake”, assuaged by saying sorry?
The charade being perpetrated by the CEOs of the big banks and orchestrated by the Coalition is an embarrassment. The class war is being won convincingly by the rich and powerful.