Let’s be clear on laws
As a resident of Waugh Rd in Albury, I thought it was time to remind others travelling on this road to familiarise themselves with the clearway times before tooting and hurling abuse every time my visitors park, or I park, out the front of homes.
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For those who clearly cannot read, the only times we cannot park out the front are 8am-9am in the southbound lane and 4pm-6pm on the northbound lane.
Further, this clearway was introduced when Mate Street was the Hume Highway to alleviate local traffic congestion and now that traffic has been diverted (along with much local traffic) to the freeway I would suggest it timely to remove the four lanes back to two anyway as many will agree it’s rare that both lanes are in use.
In addition to this, it might remove the temptation for the many people who consider the Logan Road to Union Road section a drag strip before someone is seriously hurt!
Belinda Westerlo, North Albury
Put solar where it’s best
I read with interest the extensive article on pages 4 and 5 of The Border Mail on February 2 and I must say I was singularly unimpressed by the comments made by Jindera Solar Farm Project Director, Symon Grasby, who says “our modelling shows there is a good level of solar radiation, and because of the large substation at Jindera, we can get a connection which allows the power that’s generated to reach the grid.”
Mr Grasby, what part of our region doesn’t have a good level of solar radiation? Moreover, the existing Jindera substation is there to provide the existing needs of the community, not to provide a short-term 30-year return on investment for investors (largely overseas, I suspect).
Mr Ed Mounsey, CWP Renewables Chief Operating Officer for the proposed Glenellen Solar Farm, says “we’ve introduced setback distances from property boundaries. We will provide environmental offsets and set aside some areas for conservation … very little woodland would be subject to clearing.” Tell me, what kind of rubbish is a say nothing statement like that. Any decision to remove 200 mature native shade trees is criminal, and not to be supported.
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We’ve recently celebrated 150 years of rural settlement in two of our local villages, and many of these families are our best conservationists, who’ve developed their enterprises for their futures. Most of their superannuation is tied up in their enterprises, as is their borrowing capability with their bankers. And now we’re to agree to allow short-term money grabbers to decimate these communities. How would the proponents of these projects react to a dismantling of their superannuation and access to borrowings?
Our politicians need to get off their shinies and look at the real picture. Increased job numbers are only there until these projects are commissioned. The Broken Hill Solar Project has only two or three personnel on hand, and is self- running. The decision to locate solar farms close to existing substations would suggest that every solar proposal will be unpopular and divisive. Let’s build more substation networks into more remote areas. Put solar out where solar is best, in clear sunny skies, and leave our good land as is. I’m neither a farmer nor a greenie, but I do believe we need to responsibly sustain what small pockets of green we have left in this largely arid continent of ours.
Geoff Edwards, Walla
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