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• Charlie Schroeder: If the government is not going to help preserve and build fair dinkum species recovery plans. [Recovery plans for the spotted tail quoll and the grey headed flying foxes has been languishing for... (1 week, 3 days ago)
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• Tibor Majlath: Speaking of "scientists" with vested interests; perhaps like some senators we should only listen to those who work at the IPA which typically never discloses the sources of its funding. (1 week, 4 days ago)
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• Tibor Majlath: The senator claims that "This insane idea that power generation should not produce carbon dioxide, a harmless trace gas that does not cause climate change, has destroyed heavy industry and... (1 week, 5 days ago)
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• Charlie Schroeder: Does this person know what she is saying, have any idea how much wildlife suffer, lose their lives, not their so called livelihood, because that is also gone, by logging, land clearing,... (1 week, 5 days ago)
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• Bill Thomson: If you listened to wildlife biologist experts like Nick Mooney, you'd know there's abundant evidence that devils thrive in mine lease precincts. (1 week, 6 days ago)
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• Bill Thomson: "Bioenergy out, nuclear energy in" What are you trying to say here, Mark Butler? You do realise that bioenergy has, hands down, orders of magnitude more environmental impact per joule of... (3 weeks, 4 days ago)
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• Bill Thomson: If one rejects nuclear, as you have, Ms Steggall, then gas is what you get. This has been demonstrated time and time again the world over. You've forfeited any right to complain about gas. (20 October 2020)
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• Tibor Majlath: During the years after privatisation of the electricity market my base rate per kilowatt hour as a residential electricity consumer rose from about 0.1186 cents in 2000 to 0.1709 cents in March... (12 October 2020)
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• Bill Thomson: People need to get a grip and realise how drilling and seismic surveys have crisscrossed Bass Strait for well over half a century, delivering enormous wealth and invaluable energy... (3 September 2020)
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• Bill Thomson: "We have seen what happens when natural disasters strike. Just imagine if we also had a nuclear power plant to contend with" What does this mean, exactly? A nuclear power plant would be about... (2 September 2020)
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