MACKSVILLE basketballer Clay Perkins has once again represented his state on the court. Perkins has been playing for the NSW team at the Ivor Burge Championship, a national championship for players with an intellectual disability underway this week at Ballarat.…
WELL, Christmas and the New Year are well and truly over. This month has seen plenty of bowling at Nambucca – many having a go for the first time, enjoying barefoot and twilight bowls, and the return of our usual…
DESPITE it being too hot for the ladies on Tuesday, and stifling for everybody on Friday, the Harry Andrews Stableford went ahead on Saturday with a good field in pleasant conditions. Cohen Welsh’s regular practice paid off, with him winning…
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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DEAR News Of The Area, AUSTRALIA’S long-delayed energy system transformation is happening, and not before time. Old coal-fired power stations are now too expensive, inflexible and unreliable as they limp towards retirement. Australia’s $220 billion in fossil-fuel exports in FY2023…