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process includes a "writing down" of the debt which may

with "

pollutants'.hgv_? shown

well is a- gross and gtop thinking we could polluter affecting human ever do better. heafth. Typical gas well Her, '' claim that coal include
tol_uene,

Everything! i**h,TJ3'l# ,1t1J;

ethl

Y::- f:|"f^rmprovement 33i,il1',l?l'';?tn ..'ff',fl

(1998-2011) and continue to

hold a position as a voting general assernbly mernber

(Arrnidale
businesses.

Indepenr

for

be 'retumed in

Greenpeace Aushalia

subsequent years': MrBurns does not say

and 18,000 (Tamwofth News) to local homes

But is

Pacific.

Ironically you state of

Greenpeace that their money

how much of that debt may be returned - but says (not

very reassuringly),'the actual

having us on?

were these two

letters repeated?

I mean,
I

som

qTP{

to is (benzene,
and

xylene), volatile organic compounds. . (VOC$

benzene

.nq polycyclic-3rgmaqg hydrocarbons (PAHs). All

these substances affect respiratory.syltgyt. 2j%

the environment thin'its green energy alternatives, = can onlu" true we leave thai coal the ground;

,less damaging

to

mum and pop supporters... with their five and 10 cents

"can't be coming
donations'?.

from

of council's investments still lies in trust

cash for many
accounts in England' (Letters,

parfir didn'r any other letters repr in that edition so why t

two?

br

in

if

Yet, the oveiwhelming majority of Greenpeace

April 11). Why in England? Why not Aushalia? How

muchwill it costratepayers to get this money released from the overseas trust accounts? Given this context, surely it

Maybe
these

I'm

wrong

two are serial 'Lett

the

ay

because coal that is-mined, transnorted and thenbumt foi electiicity generation causes

funding does come from

individuals (more than 95% average donation though rather than

cents.

method

carcinogenic; 37o/o_affect^the every step along that p"rocess erdocrine system; 52Yo affect inwiys tliatrenjwabldenergy the nervous system and 40o/o *nrr."L. do not. affect the immune However. one statement There is no safe.disposal Viv makes absolutely

environnierital damage at

for the audited 2010-2011 financial statements). The

the Editor' submitters. E all just seems a little sh and it gets even better. . . '

is

is

the aid of google,

financially irresponsible

closer

to $200 per person per year

system.

5 or l0

that is

or the massive amount of south of Sydney is a

these chemicals correct, and bears thinkin"g salt about. Coal is indeed fossi'i produced. Camden, sunshine- with all that this

of

is

chemically infirsed mud from CSG exploration at no settins tfrem back. It is an undisclosed site on the ahSst ce?tain that in years Northem Rivers. The report 6 ;;*; h,,n1u *iU'noa also said on a recent audit ur., for of M coal and petroleum -o;--i-t;11';;that ,fossjl sunshine' than
exploration Licences

Seam Gas Well" and see the well spraying chemicgls into the air as close as 400m from homes and l00m from an open water supply. re^cently as last week, Ap_ril 1_0, a report from the NSW Government said it suspected furow Energy of dumping

Just Google

"Foaming.Coal deposits were created many mijhons of years ago, ani themoff.t[at'sit. As - {"ftilil; economics
distinguishes between capital and iicome - we are tredting our coal deposits as income] but thev aie caoital. Once sold the'v're sone'and there,s

disaster. imolies. Australia,s coal

vast as they might seJmio be, once we dig thEm up and seli

few charities in the world who have a constitutional rule to take no funds from government or corporate entities to ensure their
independence of the corporate

Greenpeace are one ofthe

away to the organisers of bread-and-circuses events like the recent "Day on the Green" (Letters, March I9). Now, to Mr Tom Livanos who writes that he 'carulot negativity' (Letters, April
11); dear me, how sad, never mind. Cheer up, Mr Livanos, things are bound to become
worse - positively. Dr Paul Fidlon,

for ADC to give our money

out that neither Viv Fc nor Jay Nauss even lil the New England regior
fact, they both hail from

fi

Smart State', Queensl Surely we deserve to k where the writers of

accep (my)

letters live at the very I

non-stop

mean here I was, thir Viv and Jay were that cri old couple I see walkin

or political influence,
Just

Jessie Street everyday,

both

perceived and real. And with good reason.

a few

days after

apologises to whoever couple may actually be, time if you're lucky, I n even say hello.

making his baseless claims,

Armidale

Clive Palmer indicated he only made the comments to take some heat off LNP
Leader Campbell Newman ahead of the Queensland
election.

Zena

lt

found

crgate$ Ae"ticrtr tf,.rq- .*" uqy Signfficant'enViiotimentalrisk number'of b.tt., ways we tlrough.nol-compliancewith can generate electricity. Why the conditions of its licence. such'a rush to squander the I applaud the NSW familv fortur. uoh 1rurr" o*
Arro,r-v Ene{gJ/,had

simply buming it to generate

Jay, you say 'owe need more Clive Palmers". I expect readers would welcome your reasons and eyidence for this too.

paper 'Tamworth City News'produced by the same publisher as our very own
Evans Publishing. All was going well untit f got to the Letters to the Editor section

Bout of ddj?r vu Driving through Tamworth over Easter I picked up a copy of their free local

Armi

Cancel capers

Pretend for a momenf th-r wanted to forcibly reducr production of carbon dio

'Armidale

byAustralians.

Independent',

There are three s'ar

do it.

It

seems

to me Clive's

the hrst optlon u

best attributes are destruction

farmers, conservationists,

- whether it is of the truth, sensibility, the Football

Federation

and was stuck

by a mild a
day

levy a tax on every totrr This assumes that

wine growers, horse breeders,

erund.hild.en with

irtrl.t

world in

Aushalia, Earth's

bout of d6jd vu because two of the letters were repeated,

_!!G roups, -GetUp, the NCC, plus the Country

!top-

utt the useful resources have been either dug up, cut

Bimblebox Nature Refuge

I'd
as

read them both

suspect they were

Women's Association
will-be des_cending on

NSW Govemment's failure

Sydney on May lst to protest the

who

down. oolluted or driven to

extinctibn? Jo Leoni,
.Armidale

or the stability of
climate.

earlier inArmidale. And they weren't just any fype of letter

if yor something, less of it wi produced. This is phase

the Gillard/Greens

carbon dioxide Fodr

schr

How many readers do you think would agree that

we need more of this kind behaviour?

written

by people with a heavy right

hand.

of

Tax payers rate this the " worsf'. scheme becaus is simple, easily demor

:l':",il["]'.iiii:'1?flH,Tj D estru cti o n of Santos, Anow Energy, AGi Sensibilitv : ,. and all CSG companies have
no prace in Rob

Adam Blakester, Armidale

ouRiuahiil'' ix{,iffi.oTif;rtl#"}: ln response documents that evidence CIA

Noonan
funding of Greenpeace and
The Aushalian Greens.

Firstly, 'Coal not candles' by Viv Forbes states that she thinks that Earth Hour slould "celebrate coal, not candles" and salute "the real
people who produce the coal

and easily abolished on, becomes obvious that achieving no climate ben
at great cost.

on which most people on

earth depend". The second

A second option is tc ration cards like those to ration petrol dwing

issued to industries favo by the ruling politicians.

With great personal

to

Puzzled

ftomMvForbes(Independen; "evidence"', April 4) on thi subject of *.I worked as 6e saying that

becaause

am puzzled by the letter

Really Jay? Please provide us readers with a copy of this

Manager

Shane Buins,

of ADC,

respect General

letter 'Down the path to destruction" by Jay Nauss

wm:Jhe quantify of c issued is set each year

ration cards can be

-a Finance coal-powered ele"ctricity Director. ff: Greenpeac.e geneiation. Viv appe4rs to f^or neglY 12 years in their

coal

fiH["{X?",

t*'l;r",,:11

acknowledge and appreciate the time he spent explainingto me the process of reclaiming ratepayers' money invested with Lehman Brothers (Letters, April II). However, Mr Bums says part of that

thinks that "We need more Clive Palners". Okay, fair enough, everyone is entitled

tri

to their own

opinion

and

in an official market or the black market. Thr

then in YOUR local paper with a distribution of 16,000

what better place to air tlem

phase 2 of the Gillard/Gr scheme. It is greatly favo by bankers, brokers, tra