NOEL Bultitude, 89, has been awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) in the General Division for service to the community of Woolgoolga. As a young teenager Noel was amongst the founding members of the Woolgoolga Rural Fire…
DEAR News Of The Area, DEREK Musgrove speaks from experience and the practicality of his engineering background and 45 years in the power generation industry. His logical conclusion that net zero cannot be achieved 20 years earlier than the agreed…
DEAR News Of The Area, Derek Musgrave’s suggestion of replacing Liddell Power plant by small modular nuclear technology seems ludicrous to me. 1 – I don’t think Australia has the knowledge to build it and it will take too long.…
DEAR News Of The Area, TIME to stop the fake facts about electrical generation. Derek Musgrove in letters to the editor on 25 January calls for small modular nuclear reactors to replace coal. Unfortunately Derek they don’t exist. They are…
DEAR News Of The Area, I REFER to the article, ‘Seeking the Truth’, and Mr Pratzky casting himself as someone fighting “disinformation”, suggesting that our community believes floating offshore wind turbines kill whales due to some form of misinformation conspiracy.…
DEAR News Of The Area, I reject the notion that small modular nuclear reactors (SMR) are a viable power source (NOTA January 25). There are no units under construction in the western world and no design has been fully certified…
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COUNCILS across the state are being encouraged to hold more community events, with assistance from the NSW Government’s Open Streets program. Under Open Streets, councils can apply for up to $150,000 to facilitate the closure of streets to vehicles to…
THE results of the 2023 Port Stephens Literature Awards are in, with a number of local writers recognised for their excellent submissions. The Port Stephens Council Prize ($500) was awarded to Cailin Mahony of Bacchus Marsh, Victoria for her story,…
PERSPECTIVES on the proposed Hunter offshore wind farm have come into sharper clarity with a recent comparison opportunity provided by public details of another offshore project in the United Kingdom. According to the Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment…