Twitterverse in 2013: Kath doesn't heart Mark the MP

Kath Crosby on her blog Begin Rant:

Mark Coulton had no right what so ever to tell me to go call my father if I didn’t like that the entire executive of the Warialda Branch of the National Party were members of his family. Was I stirring by alerting the Inverell Times to the situation? Yes, but I wasn’t the idiot who tweeted it in the first place – that was his daughter – and I wasn’t the idiot who didn’t make sure there was some diversity on the executive – that would be him.

Desperate to stem the downward trend to its share value Metgasco sneaks into the media 2,000km away from its coal seam gas tenements

 

Coal seam gas company Metgasco Limited on 4 April 2013 trying to talk itself up on Page 51 of The Advertiser in Adelaide, approximately 2,000km away from its NSW exploration tenements:

 

COAL seam gas miner Metgasco says it has been asked to consider gas projects outside New South Wales after new government regulations led to it suspending its operations in the state.

A day after CSG player Dart Energy announced it would suspend its NSW operations and sack 70 per cent of its staff, Metgasco chief executive Peter Henderson said his company is receiving invitations to invest in projects in other parts of Australia and overseas.

 

This company’s 5.5 cent share price at close of Australian Stock Exchange trading on 5 April 2013 does not support Henderson’s hype:

Remember when the Australian coal seam gas industry admitted it would contaminate aquifers?

The Sydney Morning Herald 3 August 2011:

THE coal seam gas industry has conceded that extraction will inevitably contaminate aquifers.

The Australian Petroleum Production and Exploration Association told a fiery public meeting in Sydney that good management could minimise the risks of water contamination, but never eliminate them.

''Drilling will, to varying degrees, impact on adjoining aquifers,'' said the spokesman, Ross Dunn. ''The extent of impact and whether the impact can be managed is the question.''

The face of a future discerning voter?

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A young girl watching Australian Opposition Leader Tony Abbott

Champagne corks are popping all over the Clarence Valley today!

The Daily Examiner 5 April 2013:
 
Rob Donges will end 16 years of local government work before June 30....
 
assets manager George Kriflick...has tendered his resignation.....

Cause and effect Abbott-style?

CAUSE?

Democracy4Sale:

Donations to the state branch of the Liberal Party by tobacco companies totalled $588,796 between 2007-2010.

Donations to the Federal Liberal Party by tobacco companies totalled $959,140 between 1998-2008.

EFFECT?

The former federal health minister and Federal Liberal Party Member for Warringah (NSW) Tony Abbott in June 2009:

One cigarette I am told does you damage but it does you so little damage. It is only when you start smoking a lot of cigarettes for a long time that it starts doing very serious damage. So being hard hearted to your kids, not encouraging them to be their best, I think are probably much more serious parental crimes and so I personally would not get hung up on something, in my view, as trivial as smoking while the kids are in the car.