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Arcane procedures
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REFER to Cr Margaret O'Connor's recent lettel in your pages. Up to a point, she is right. and many council procedures (largely dictated by the Local Govenment Act of 1993) must seem arcane to casual observers ("I move that the motion be put" etc). However, I think that many of the points made
increasing global atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration that is driven by industrial activity
in very much larger nations. Blaming Federal Government policy on climate change for extreme weather events makes as much sense as blaming the tooth fairy. In the long term, climate change is our only hope of ending the bushfire threat once and for a1l. In a warmer world, the climate of northern Australia with its wet summcrs is cxpectcd to move southward.
Chris Fellows, Gouncillor Margaret O'Connor on her wind farm tour in Ganberra last week.
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ARMIDALE Dumaresq councillor Margaret O'Connor said
she was impressed by the rising
tive
replacement
for
fossil-
farming projects
for development in
land.
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"Some of the host landholders were on the tour and very keen to see and hear wind turbines up close."
erty, describe how much the wind income had secured his
family's economic future. "He said that he used to re, ally hate the wind on his farrn. but now he knew it was helping his family stay viable for the next generation," Cr O'Connor
said.
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"We looked at three different types of currently operating renewable energy, although the main focus was on wind ener-
Cr O'Connor said most of the group were initially awed by the size o[ the turbines, which were about 80 metres
high with blade spans of about
50 metres.
"That's
because wind is
cost-effec-
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Professor Caita has contributed extensively to public discussion about reconciliation, collective responsibility, the role of moral considerations