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Vic Govt faced with trucking water into Horsham as drought goes from bad to worse with poor winter rains
Victoria’s Wimera and Mallee have been particularly hit by a lack of winter rain. If spring rains do not come, the Government is bracing itself to supply the entire region by water trucks, reports The Age (2 September 2006).
100 per cent cash-back of energy-price rises
The Economic Impacts of a National Emissions Trading Scheme, Final Report. June 2006 by the Allen Consulting Group for the National Emissions Trading Taskforce analysed the impact compensation funds were returned as a production subsidy, and in the model this was based on a share of energy in operating expenses in 2003-04 (in brackets) as follows: Other non-ferrous ore (10.6pc); Non-metallic mineral products (3.9pc); Cement (6.7pc); Iron and steel (8.1pc); Aluminium and alumina (22.7pc). Compensation amounts were calculated in MMRF-Green and applied for in the model in 2010-2014 on the basis of electricity cost rises for the specified sectors; and for 2015 to 2030: for Coal, Gas and Electricity cost increases for specified sectors.
Desal still on cards for Sydney together with pipelines and recycling; let private sector into water competition for best results, says consultant
Infrastructure expert Rod Sims said there were at least three options to solve Sydney’s water problems: piping it from rivers as far away as the Snowy and Murrumbidgee, recycling and desalination, reported The Australian (2 September 2006 p10).
Let the private sector compete: The director of consulting firm Port Jackson Partners said the key to the solution was exposing Sydney Water to competition from the private sector, which would ensure the resource was delivered at a price consumers were willing to pay. “(It) is just inadequate management,” Mr Sims said.
http://www.commondreams.org/views06/0830-26.htm
Published on Wednesday, August 30, 2006 by the Boston Globe
by Derrick Z. Jackson
More than 2,600 US soldiers have died in Iraq. July’s toll for Iraqi civilians was 3,500, the deadliest month of the US occupation. Iraq’s civil war is on pace to kill 25,000 to 30,000 civilians by year’s end. If you add in the tens of thousands of deaths from the 2003 invasion (we do not know the exact number because the Pentagon won’t comment), researchers will inevitably say that the body count has crossed 100,000.
All of this madness to stop a madman, Saddam Hussein.
Carl London of GCG Rose & Kindel peers into the Assembly’s chambers Wednesday as Mike Weimer of the California Federation of Teachers, center, Michael Burns of KP Advocates, left, and other lobbyists wait in the hallway, as the Legislature considers a flurry of bills. Legislators are racing to finish their session by today’s midnight deadline. Sacramento Bee/Brian Baer
LBJ Night Before JFK Assassination: "Those SOB’s Will Never Embarrass Me Again"
Outside the debate of magic bullets, multiple shooters and grassy knoll theories – an astounding deposition of a deliberately planned criminal conspiracy straight from the horse’s mouth
Paul Joseph Watson/Prison Planet.com | August 30 2006
The night before the Kennedy assassination, Lyndon Baines Johnson met with Dallas tycoons, FBI moguls and organized crime kingpins – emerging from the conference to tell his mistress Madeleine Duncan Brown that "those SOB’s" would never embarrass him again. It’s a jaw-dropping deposition and it’s the biggest JFK smoking gun there is – despite the fact that it has received little media attention.