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Wednesday, 9 October 2013
Tuesday, 8 October 2013
An announcement Clarence Valley Council would probably like to make
"Please, residents and visitors in Yamba, get this in your thick heads: the access way from the eastern end of Susan Street to Yamba Road is not a pathway."
That's what Clarence Valley Council would probably like to publish in its public notices, but won't. Hence, here it is on NCV - provided as a public service.
Those who use the "path", which strangely enough has been covered with bitumen and has an access point that was especially included in the kerb and gutter at the end of Susan Street probably think they're using a footpath but they are so wrong! (The access, which is to the right of a telegraph pole, is clearly shown in the pic below.)
Here's an extract from the minutes of the Clarence Valley Council Lower Clarence Access Committee Meeting on 17th July, which are an attachment
to Council's Business Paper - Environment Planning & Works Committee
to Council's Business Paper - Environment Planning & Works Committee
Item 8.4: Yamba Susan St. shortcut
Discussion/Comment: The path way near Susan St through to Yamba Road was bought [sic] up again re pathway being slippery with leaf litter.
Action/Recommendation: This is not a designated pathway and
never will be as the width does not meet the regulations.
Used as a short cut.
Action Officer: Nil
This is what the non-footpath looked like this morning.
Image credits: Google Maps and Clarrie's resources
Metgasco finally admits that its Kingfisher E01 gas well was in trouble long before the explosion...
...and the NSW Mine Safety Investigation Unit reveals coal seam gas exploration and mining company, Metgaso Limited, did not install and plug the well with sufficient understanding of the processes involved.
The Northern Star 27 September 2013:
On July 14 this year six Metgasco workers were placed into a "very high" risk situation during the shutdown operation of the Kingfisher E01 well on the outskirts of Casino, when 200m of steel drill pipes shot out of the well without warning.
The incident followed an attempt to drill through a special plug installed 200m down the 2km well shaft to "bleed off" rising pressure....
Flying metres into the air, the pipes fell to earth around the site, missing the six fleeing workers but causing extensive damage to surrounding equipment.
In an indication of the force, one of the drill pipes was ejected out of the drill site and into a neighbouring paddock.
The Mine Safety Investigation Unit reported the well had experienced "continuously rising pressure" during its lifespan due to loss of well integrity.
"Loss of integrity ... meant that gas under pressure could migrate between the inside and outside of the (well) casing," it stated.
It suggested efforts to monitor and control this building pressure had failed; one of the causes was an "insufficient understanding" of the level of pressure build-up, and the plug was installed too close to the surface.
NSW Mine Safety Investigation Unit 28 September 2013:
The workers report running away from the workover rig towards safe muster points and in doing so saw sparks and a brief ignition of gas above the rig as the last of the pipes ejected from the well....
The causes and circumstances surrounding the incident are being investigated by the department’s Investigation Unit.
The Metgasco team provided an object lesson to other coal seam gas miners; SAFETY ALERT High potential incident – drill string ejected from hole.
Federal Coalition Minister for Industry Ian Macfarlane - "this bloke is semi-literate" shill
The Australian Minister for Industry Ian Macfarlane fails to impress one Northern Rivers resident.
The Northern Star letter to the editor, 30 September 2013:
Loud and clear
So now the game truly is on for the people of the Northern Rivers with Ian Macfarlane, probably the most deceitful schmuck since Howard, spruiking the CSG industry line of a pending gas shortage in NSW.
After pretending to show concern over the intrusions of miners onto our lands he has done the usual 360- degree belly flop and landed well and truly into the loving laps of the industry carpetbaggers, because carpetbaggers is what these people are.
Like those original carpetbaggers who went into the south of the US after the civil war, profiteering then leaving the place in an economic and ecological shambles, this is what Macfarlane is proposing for NSW.
On top of that he thinks he insults the people opposing this toxic industry by calling them all sorts of names, the latest being "anarchists".
It is obvious this bloke is semi-literate, like most of the LNP, in that he shows his ignorance when using this label.
The anarchists were a group who brought freedom, democracy and rights back into a society riddled with the types of self-serving shills as Macfarlane. The problem with Macfarlane is that like most people of his ilk he just cannot be told. Well let's tell him loud and clear. NO CSG IN THE NORTHERN RIVERS!
M Mizzi
Byron Bay
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