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Wednesday, December 8, 2010

Water, water everywhere but not a cent to spare on harvesting it for our future


Not so long ago Australians were told by certain political campaigners that we were running out of water and that we lived in a dry continent ... we had to do something drastic to secure water for the population so now we have big and expensive de-salination plants dotted in strategic places.

But it is a much harder argument to raise at a time like this when significant parts of QLD and NSW are under flood water and all Australians have heard about or seen pictures of the inland wet and scarcely a drop of that is being harvested and moved to where it could be used for primary production.

So what can we do?

The Liberal National Coalition suggested an infrastructure fund that would pay for itself in a decade. Investing in harvesting even part of the water that falls each year in North of the nation would about of $20 Bn, the same money the Government says it is putting into fast internet in the NBN. $20Bn would supply water to Australia's farmers currently being forced off the land or forced to buy water rights. $20bn invested would attract more money and would not only feed Australians but produce more than $100Bn in national export income, paying off the cost in this decade.
And Julia Gillard tells us the most important issue for her Government is faster internet – Turn It Up

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Friday, November 12, 2010

Energy plan that will turn a gas into a gasp.


Today we have news that gas fired electricity generators are going to replace coal based electricity to heat the heart of Sydney, why? Simply because electricity is considered dirty by the modern standards of today's social experimenters.

The reason they aren't using solar is quite simple too. We aren't boosting the Australian renewable energy industry because most government subsidies purchase equipment made offshore so instead of helping consumers and producers to improve technology and reduce overall short term and long term costs what the government funding the the Green industries is actually doing is raising prices but not efficiencies.  Instead of advancing the industry government funding, how it is being applied, is artificially inflating prices and government debt as well.

So, in what only Clover Moore's lot would call wisdom, The City Of Sydney is planning to install gas powered turbines throughout the city and instead of burning that "black and dirty coal stuff that is just turning carbon captured sun energy into electricity and CO2" now they are going to burn gas and release Nitrous Oxides and other toxins right in the middle of the city, right where Sydney sider's breath.

You may well think that on top of the cars this is simply going to add more pollution into Sydney – ahhhh well that is where you and I would be WRONG.

Clearly the plan is to progressively choke the roads and push cars out of the city so that pollution from cars can be replaced ...

....by pollution from other sources

...that are replacing the pollution from electricity ... TURN IT UP...I'm Michael Robinson




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I want to thank the team from Bow Bow Plumbing.
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I've known them for a long time and always been impressed by them. 
Bow Bow Plumbing brings a work ethic to the job that we need
more of in the business world.

If you have need for a commercial plumber, check him out.



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Turn It UP Mike Segment can be heard 
on Radio 2SM and stations on the Super Network
Monday to Friday with Grant Goldman.
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Wednesday, November 10, 2010

Federal Government's Budget Assumptions Leave a Black Hole in Credibility


For anyone with a memory long enough to go back to that recent extended Federal election result they might recall the fuss that was made by the ALP and two of the numbers men among the independents result.

At the time much was made about some of the savings calculations that Tony Abbott and the Liberals had made by calculating that they would save between 7 and 11 billion dollars by, in short, not wasting so much money as the prior Labor government had.

At the time the figure was bandied around as a black hole but it was only ever accounting assumptions

Well what a difference a few months make.

Yesterday we saw the Federal Government down playing its own ten billion dollar black hole in predictions trying to focus public attention on their own spin.

All the while the reality of their little splash of cash of spending somewhere around forty billion dollars on consumer items in what they called stimulus spending has now come home to roost and more Australians are realising that money should have been spend on long term capital infrastructure.

Spending on things like rail and ports ... and improvements that are desperately needed in order for exporters, like the mining sector, to export.

Why?  Exporters export and in doing so earn money for this nation, if the government (or someone) doesn't provide the export capital infrastructure then we earn less because they export less.  (As a side note that is why some large mining companies have gone ahead and built their own rail and ports, not waiting for the governments over the years to do what was needed, and they were happy to because they were earning more money by having that infrastructure there ..... so why can't the federal government see the same thing?)

   ….Now the government has to go further into debt and that will push inflation up, but they say trust us, don't look at reality look at our assumptions and predictions ….
Turn It Up...I'm Michael Robinson

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I want to thank the team from Bow Bow Plumbing.
Commercial plumbing maintenance, based in (not limited to) the Sydney area.

I've known them for a long time and always been impressed by them. 
Bow Bow Plumbing brings a work ethic to the job that we need
more of in the business world.

If you have need for a commercial plumber, check him out.



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Where to Listen:
Turn It UP Mike Segment can be heard 
on Radio 2SM and stations on the Super Network
Monday to Friday with Grant Goldman.
http://www.2sm.com.au
click on Grant Goldman and Listen Live online

How to Contact
To sponsor this segment on the 2SM
Super Radio Network and
online email me at
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