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Plastic free July is here again
Your say: Heather Heggie, Naracoorte The Guardian sites tell us many cold and unpleasant truths about plastics globally. The Guardian tells us plastic has increased from 2million tons in 1950 to 368 billion tons in 2019 (not including synthetic fibres), and is expected to reach 600 billion tons in 2025. Packaging, construction and automotive industries use the most plastics. “Over 800 additives to plastic products include phalates, bisphenolA, bromine flame retardants, UV screens and anti microbiol agents, all of which have a negative effect on the biosphere and organic life.” Volatile organic compounds are most evidenced dramatically when toxic houses “explode” in bushfires. (Google the CFS reports recently released after analysing Australia’s catastrophic bushfires.) Many additives are not identified. Recycling plastic increases the toxicity many times and the volatile chemical compounds created by burning, decaying with other substances etc., also increase many times. It is not safe to let plastics […]
Power prices
Your Say: Cliff Hignett, Naracoorte People who are complaining about power prices do not understand capitalism. Our power is supplied, transmitted and delivered by (mostly multinational) corporations – whose sole objective is to maximise profits for shareholders – they only provide power to customers as a means of making sure the suckers (you) keep sending them money. Recent talk of another power price rise refers to the government agreed ‘default price’- a sort of recommended retail price. If you have just ‘gone with the flow’ or accepted the first offer made to you, then, in all probability, your price is the ‘default’ and will rise around 7% in July. Power in SA is the highest price in Australia. When over 50% of our supply comes from cheap solar and wind, why are we paying so much? The reason is that most South Australians have not changed their supplier since ETSA […]
Not an ordinary bus tour
By Nasik Swami It was not just an ordinary bus tour of the district. It was a tour that included some of the elected counsellors of the Naracoorte-Lucindale Council on a bus, witnessing the various conditions of some of the roads in the district. As fascinating as it sounds, Cr Peter Ireland described the tour as an important one, giving elected members the opportunity to be “out in the field and not just be making decisions from the council chambers”. The June 16 tour was organised following a question with notice from Cr Abigail Goodman at the council’s May 2023 Strategic Asset & Planning Committee meeting, asking whether elected members would be interested in participating in a full-day bus tour that showcases the different roads in the district. Cr Goodman stated the tour would include examples of: Roads that demonstrate the different service levels and how they are determined. How […]
Council heads for $2.9m loss
By Nasik Swami The Tatiara District Council is headed for a $2.9million loss this financial year, thanks to some “extraordinary circumstances”. The loss, which the council administration says is “largely due to grants not received yet,” was discussed at the council’s meeting in Bordertown on June 13. When asked by this newspaper for some clarity on the loss, council chief executive officer Anne Champness said the deficit included carry forwards and that it was important to understand where council revenue came from. “A large part of the projected deficit is related to grant payments, which include both payments received in the previous financial year, the 2021–22 financial year for this current financial year, and grants expected to be paid in this financial year at the time of setting our 2022–23 annual budget but now likely to be received in 2023–24 instead,” Ms Champness said. “Another significant component of the deficit […]
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