Cop this for a misleading, almost non-sensical statement-The NSW Office of Water will leave water entitlement for general security users along the Lachlan River at 100 per cent for the 2015-16 year. It says entitlement, not to be confused with water allocations, will remain unchanged after wide consultation with users along the river.The Office of Water's … Continue reading Water Entitlements and Allocations
Author: David Boyd
Bourke-A Town With Real Spirit-A Personal Perspective
Background In August 1960, as a raw youth,just after my nineteenth birthday, pastoral house Dalgety sent me to Bourke Branch. I had joined Dalgety in Sydney six weeks or so earlier after spending three years "jackarooing" in south/west and central Queensland. Dalgety said that they would use my vast rural experience and send me to … Continue reading Bourke-A Town With Real Spirit-A Personal Perspective
More Wisdom From One of My Favourites
Freeman Dyson: Earth Is Actually Growing GreenerThe Vancouver Sun, 6 April 2015This week’s Conversation that Matters features Princeton University’s preeminent physicist Freeman Dyson who says computer models do a good job of helping us understand climate but they do a very poor job of predicting it. Freeman Dyson is a member of the GWPF’s Academic Advisory CouncilDyson says, “as … Continue reading More Wisdom From One of My Favourites
Progress With Millennium Goals
The Truth About Warming
A chart put together by John Christy, director of the Earth System Science Center at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, that reflects how the temperature satellite data (the green line) contrasts with temperature models.
Two extracts from the Global Warming Policy Foundation
I abhor Earth Hour. Abundant, cheap electricity has been the greatest source of human liberation in the 20th century. Every material social advance in the 20th century depended on the proliferation of inexpensive and reliable electricity. The whole mentality around Earth Hour demonizes electricity. I cannot do that, instead I celebrate it and all that it has provided … Continue reading Two extracts from the Global Warming Policy Foundation
Alan Oxley as quoted by Andrew Marshall in The Land
"Land available to farming shrank by 15pc between 2000 and 2013 and water entitlements in the Murray-Darling Basin shrank about a third.Then federal Water Minister Penny Wong's irrigation rights buying campaign had been motivated by drought-fuelled concern about the downstream environment's impact from what was envisaged as continuing drought.But he said the federal government and … Continue reading Alan Oxley as quoted by Andrew Marshall in The Land
Health Update
Last year (02.08.14) I wrote " Last year (2013) I published three posts titled "Oh What a Feeling", "Cricket and Chemo" and "Contemplation" which gave the brutal facts of my flirtation with bowel cancer. In September last year I wrote a triumphant "Health Update" declaring a cancer "all clear". Nothing has changed in that direction, but … Continue reading Health Update
Snowy Scheme
As my readers know I have often questioned whether the management of the Snowy Scheme has sufficient emphasis on its original water conservation objectives compared with the apparent focus on hydro electricity generation. In late November I had the opportunity of joining a Snowy Hydro conducted tour of the Scheme which concentrated on the Northern … Continue reading Snowy Scheme
Food for Thought
The Harvard Business Review recently ran an interview with Robert B. Shapiro, chairman and CEO of Monsanto, on the subject of sustainability.Sustainable development is the term for the dual imperative—economic growth and environmental sustainability—that has been gaining ground among business leaders since the 1992 United Nations Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro. As Shapiro puts it, … Continue reading Food for Thought
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