'Yambaman' did an Alexander Downer on Saturday 3 November 2012?

 

According to a regular North Coast Voices reader; Yamba's Rene Rivkin did an Alexander Downer on Saturday.

 

He sent in this snippet from The Daily Examiner on 7 November 2012 with emphasis added:

 

Stroke rounds always produce a plethora of disasters...a fine airswing from Cliffy Wood on the 2nd, Ian Brockwell 4 putting from 60 cm on the 12th, Paul Reid failing to get his tee shot passed the ladies on the 13th ..'Crownies', Chris Durrington hitting Rob Connolly's ball on the 15th but feature of the day was non playing Dave Schwarz who turned up in the late afternoon in fishnet stockings....the mind boggles.

 

Yambaman is also getting noticed locally for remarks such as these:
 

·         yambaman from Yamba

                So sad fcwscott that you appear paranoid about BULK BILLING - yet
                another not prepared to pay his/her way, no wonder Swan can't get the
                budget into surplus! If you can't afford to pay for medical treatment when
                you need it why should you expect others to pay your way?

·     yambaman from Yamba  

MOST of the protesters are unemployed, greenies or uni students, they'll protest against anything! Bottom line is it's the same people who have now got all of us paying through the nose for "renewable" energy, when we have more coal and uranium than we know what to do with (so we export it cheap!).

EDITOR'S NOTE: Comment modified to comply with NS guidlines: http://www.northernstar.com.au/contact/#StoryCommentsNotShowing

The Tony-Abbott-Andrew Bolt-Alan Jones Army out in force? WARNING: Coarse and explicit language

Finally, courtesy of ABC TV Media Watch some of the abusive emails sent to two scientists in Australia are reproduced with identifying details redacted.

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Let's Get Julia & Bob! Email campaign from a wingnut pen

CHINA........ interesting information is the title of an anonymous email bashing China, the Australian Greens and the Gillard Government currently doing the rounds – a combination which is obviously delighting a politically ignorant and xenophobic element of society. It finishes by calling for an end to the carbon tax:

You are wasting your time and ours with your carbon tax.

All you are doing is increasing our cost of living and rendering our manufacturers uncompetitive.

It will make no difference when countries like China are consuming at these extraordinary rates.

Here is an example of the often contradictory ‘facts’ this email contains:

China is currently the number one producer in the world of wind and solar power. But don’t use it themselves.

This is the reality:

Global Wind Energy Council

China’s wind power generation market is mainly shared among the ’Big Five’ power producers and several other major state-owned enterprises. These firms account for more than 80% of the total wind power market. The largest wind power operators, Guodian (Longyuan Electric Group), Datang and Huaneng expanded their capacity by 1-2 GW each during the year, while Huadian, Guohua and China Guangdong Nuclear Power are following close behind…..

The first offshore wind power demonstration project, which is also the first offshore wind project outside of Europe, the Shanghai Donghai Bridge Offshore wind farm, began generating power in June 2010……

The breathtaking growth of the Chinese wind energy industry has been driven primarily by national renewable energy policies. The first Renewable Energy Law entered into force in 2006, and gave huge momentum to the development of renewable energy. In 2007, the first implementation rules for the law emerged, giving further impetus to wind energy development. In addition, the “Medium and Long-term Development Plan for Renewable Energy in China” from 2007 set out the government’s long term commitment and put forward national renewable energy targets, policies and measures for implementation, including a mandatory market share of 1% of non-hydro renewable energy in the total electricity mix by 2010 and 3% by 2020.

In 2009, the Renewable Energy Law was amended to introduce a requirement for grid operators to purchase a certain fixed amount of renewable energy. The amendment also requires grid companies to absorb the full amount of renewable power produced, also giving them the option of applying for subsidies from a new “Renewable Energy Fund” to cover the extra cost related to integrating renewable power if necessary.

China starts vital UHV lines to carry wind power from its west  

Published: Monday, May 14 2012. Hami is one of China’s major coal producing regions, and is also home to some of the country’s biggest wind farms.

The line, which will be more than 2,000km long, will have a transmission capacity of 8GW and is expected to be completed by 2014.

A second 750kV UHV DC line will link Xinjiang with the main network of the Northwest China Grid, carrying wind and solar power generated in Hami, Jiuquan city in Gansu province, and Qaidam basin in Qinghai to the rest of the country. It is scheduled to complete in September 2013.

China plans to build 19 major UHV lines – including alternating and direct current links – under its 12th five-year plan. Eleven of these aim to help wind power transmission.

Solar power installations across China

JinkoSolar supplies more than 15 percent of solar power capacity of one of the richest regions of solar energy in China

SHANGHAI, Jan. 18, 2012 /PRNewswire-Asia-FirstCall/ -- JinkoSolar Holding Co., Ltd. ("JinkoSolar" or the "Company") (NYSE: JKS), a fast-growing, vertically integrated solar power product manufacturer based in China, recently announced that the 18 MW project developed by China Guangdong Nuclear Solar Energy Development Co., Ltd.(CGN-SEDC) is now connected to the grid. JinkoSolar provided all the modules for this project in Dunhuang, Gansu Province in west China.

Located in the solar base of China Guangdong Nuclear Power Company in Dunhuang, the solar power plant covers an area of 400,000 square meters and JinkoSolar provided all 76,000 modules for the installation.

With an annual average sunshine time of 3,362 hours, the city of Dunhuang is recognized by experts as a world-class solar-rich region. At the same time, convenient power transmission in the region has provided a guarantee for the rapid growth of photovoltaic grid connection systems……

China realizes world's biggest carbon emission cut

Xinhua, November 26, 2011.  Although China has become a major carbon emitter, it has realized the biggest carbon emission reduction across the world, said a press release from the report's research team on Saturday.

China Outpaces U.S. in Cleaner Coal-Fired Plants

New York Times May 11, 2009. China has emerged in the past two years as the world’s leading builder of more efficient, less polluting coal power plants, mastering the technology and driving down the cost…..

China has begun requiring power companies to retire an older, more polluting power plant for each new one they build.

China Energy Consumption Rises at Fastest Pace in Four Years

Bloomberg News - Feb 22, 2012. Total energy use by the world’s second-biggest economy rose to the equivalent of 96.66 thousand trillion British thermal units, according to conversion rates from China’s government and the U.S. Energy Information Administration. The U.S. consumed 97.88 thousand trillion, according to the EIA’s Feb. 7 Short- Term Energy Outlook Report.

Excerpt from Population and Energy Consumption by Country in 2010

Country: click to compare to USA	PopulationEnergy consumption Hover over bar for actual data
	Percent of global total
China
India
USA
Russian Federation
Japan

Population data source: Population Reference Bureau; 2007 World Population Data Sheet.

Energy data source: U.S. Energy Information Administration 2007.

It must be something in the town water up Grafton way

Fair dinkum, they’re a weird mob around Grafton way. They like nothing better in the idle hours than thinking up ways to do away with democracy or wreck the lower Clarence River.
Here’s a few recent samples from the-poor-are-scum & build-it-and-be-b*ggered brigade….

·         Scott Thomson

The government keeps telling us how good our economy is while businesses close their doors so lets see what you think of these ideas.
1/ Voting should be limited to those that are working and paying taxes.If you are unemployed there is no right to vote. The exception being returned service men and aged pensioners. They have earned that right and have the life experiences to sit in judgement.
2/ All welfare payments be conditional to drug testing ............. if you can afford to do drugs you dont need government funding.
3/ Changes in Prime Minister shall come out of THAT politicians pocket. Why should we the tax payer pay for removalsits to and from the lodge? Why should we pay for all the reprinting of stationary? Same for ministers when they change portfolio let THEM pay for their stationary out of their ever swelling pay packet. It is a tax deduction after all!!

February 26 at 9:33am

·         Christopher Blanchard

So, are the NIMBYS going to form an action group against the proposed More to Goodwood Island rail link or is it something that we will at least take the time to investigate? Goodwood Is. could have been expanded years ago and provided growth for the Clarence with both export and coastal shipping , but the river mouth MUST finally be allowed to be cleared!

March 6 at 5:41am

LG Olen in a letter to the editor in The Daily Examiner:

"Access from the proposed dual railway line to the foreshores of Lake Wooloweyah {which has no access to the sea that is over a kilometre and a half distant as the crow flies} could well reduce the cost of this {coal port} project by hundreds of millions of dollars. Lake Wooloweyah could well become a major port for international shipping and a doorway for international tourism."

March 24