DEAR News Of The Area, EVERYONE needs to play their part in reducing emissions, preventing pollution and putting a brake on global warming. We owe it to future generations to take urgent action now. Many scientists are saying it’s already too late. Because of this urgency, I don’t want a Council that is going to […]
DEAR News Of The Area, STATE MP Kate Washington needs to understand that all the talk of funding may make us feel warm and fuzzy, but the problem is the haphazard approach and lack of accountability for how road repairs are being undertaken. Take the intersection of Lemon Tree and Oyster Cove roads. When you […]
PORT Stephens Council has and still is performing above expectations in current economic and climate circumstances. It will take some time to fix major issues like roads but with the professional management team and dedicated staff the future looks bright. I would like Councillors and management to consider the danger of large trees in residential […]
DEAR News Of The Area, LAST Monday night, I attended an industry seminar down in Martin Place in Sydney with the Australian Institute of Energy (AIE) and electrical industry professionals. I’m a member of the AIE Newcastle branch and this seminar was called “The Challenge of Social Licence in the Energy Transition” which was basically […]
DEAR News Of The Area, I write in response to Cherylle Stone’s letter ‘Nothing responsible about it’ in NOTA on 26 June 2025. She states that offshore wind development ”has the potential to seriously deplete and further distress the ocean, our main already overburdened heat and carbon sink”. Depleting the ocean implies diminishing its quantity, […]
DEAR News Of The Area, THE concurrent use of the terms “responsible” and “offshore wind farm development” in Australian waters is oxymoronic. There is nothing responsible in developing something offshore that costs twice as much as a similar development onshore, will take twice as long to get up and running and has the potential to […]
DEAR News Of The Area, AUSTRALIA has long supplied energy and manufactured products to the world. We can protect this tradition by updating. Local companies have already moved into cleaner production and we already supply more than 40% of our National Electricity Market with clean energy. At independent industry think tank Beyond Zero Emissions, we […]
DEAR News Of The Area, I WRITE this during National Reconciliation Week. This is the anniversary of the 1967 Referendum which finally recognised the First Peoples who have lived here for millennia and meant that they were included in the National Census as people and permitted to vote. It is also the reminder of Mabo. […]
DEAR News Of The Area, ADVANCE is a Liberal funded lobby group with a major aim of wrecking the Greens (‘We won’t be silenced on offshore wind’, Sandra Bourke, spokesperson Advance, NOTA,12 May 2025). When you think about the reasoning behind this objective one can only come to the conclusion that Advance has a major […]
DEAR News Of The Area, THE Australian people as well as the people of Port Stephens have voted in support of the Labor Government and its policies. As for the offshore wind farm, objectors you had your chance to raise legitimate concerns and still have the chance to raise them with a dedicated MP in […]
