PUBLISHED on 21 March this year was an article of mine titled ‘Hello Hydrogen’, which detailed plans for longer term electricity production at the Hunter Hydrogen Hub located in Newcastle. Presently the energy debate is centred upon short term and…
DEAR News Of The Area, AT a recent Meet the Candidates Forum in Tanilba Bay that old conundrum was raised by some independent candidates – “Let’s keep party politics out of Council.” The quick answer to that is… ”Well they…
DEAR News Of The Area, REGARDING Gordon Sutcliffe’s letter last week. The ‘Save the Myall Coast, Save Port Stephens’ local Facebook page presents the facts on the proposed offshore wind farm off the Myall Coast, i.e. off Bennetts Beach. It…
DEAR News Of The Area, I READ with interest your article: “Small modular reactors a ‘chimera’ for now” (NOTA, August 1). I agree with the fact that SMRs “are not something today” and also “they have not been demonstrated or…
DEAR News Of The Area, WHEN visiting a friend, I picked up a small book about climate change by an Australian world renown climate scientist. It was frightening to hear the current reports on the escalation of the crises. She…
DEAR News Of The Area, I REFER to Michael Wallace’s letter last week bemoaning Council’s decision to spend $70,000 on the poll to ask the community if they want multi-storey residential development at the Jetty Foreshore. I have to agree…
DEAR News Of The Area, IN response to my correspondence (NOTA 19/7/24) Howard Dengate claims (NOTA 26/7/24) that vast tracts of farmland won’t be carpeted with solar panels and wind turbines as only a mere 1200 square kilometres will be…
ALTHOUGH 1922 proved to be another good year for butter manufacture and the new produce department was doing well, mid-April 1823 saw a major turning point in dairy production. Parliament introduced the Dairy Industry Act to bring about an overall…
DEAR News Of The Area, I WOULD like to comment on statements in Mr Greg Osborne’s letter to the editor, 21 July, about the Camden Head Pilot Station management. Firstly the letter infers that the community hasn’t been involved in…
DEAR News Of The Area, I HAVE uncovered a dastardly move by Kempsey Council to be clandestine greenies. I researched Kempsey Council’s case for a 42.7 percent rate rise. I was shocked to see, buried deep inside one of their…