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Author: Geoff Ebbs

  • Shanghai’s sow-strewn water supply not a health hazard? Pigs might die

    Dead pigs are removed from a Shanghai river

    Apocalypse sow … 16,000 dead pigs have been recovered from rivers supplying water to Shanghai, China’s most populous city. Photograph: AP

    Not a very happy World Water Day for the people of Shanghai. In the past two weeks, the number of dead pigs recovered from rivers that supply water to the great financial centre has risen to more than 16,000. The authorities say there is no risk to health, but no one has much confidence in that appraisal. Contaminated water is now one of the greatest causes of illness in China.

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  • UQ students advised of proposed bus cuts

    UQ will be making a submission on behalf of our public transport travellers. If you have any complaints, concerns or suggestions for the review would you please send them to Mark Kranz, Property & Facilities Transport Systems Manager before 7 April. An omnibus (no pun intended) submission will be sent to Translink from UQ.

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  • How do you beat Kevin Rudd? LNP farms out campaign to kids

    Universities are supposedly hot beds of radicalism stuffed with pampered left-wing academia. But one Queensland university is working hard to bring down Kevin Rudd.

    At the Queensland University of Technology’s Business School, students are developing a campaign to encourage young voters to support the Liberal-National Party’s candidate for Griffith, Bill Glasson. It’s all part of their course assessment.

    “It smelled fishy but I figured that our work would not be shared with the client and it was simply a real-life example,” wrote student “Anidav” on an Australian politics forum.

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  • 2011 report confirms locals concerns about flood management

    Energex_Mt_SylviaThe 2011 Queensland Floods report confirms the concerns of locals Diane and Mark Bruhn about the lunacy of the flood measures being taken by local and state governments.

    Published in The Generator last week they provided new evidence that they are bulldozing and burning, increasing the speed and ferocity of the floods and the subsequent damage. If instead they listened to the science, slowed down the rivers and dispersed the water into the landscape, it would reduce flood damage and  have drought reduction value as well. It is well documented that the majority of water in streams comes from groundwater. Clearing the landscape and increasing the speed of run-off reduces the availability of groundwater significantly.

    Qld Floods 2011

  • 4BC picks up Greens concerns on coal dust

    IMG_1207Geoff Ebbs, Greens candidate for Griffith in inner-city Brisbane, appeared on 4BC yesterday discussing the economic madness of expending the national budget on coal infrastructure when the rest of the world is phasing out coal.

    The piece opens with John Gordon of Stop Brisbane’s Coal Trains discussing the huge volume of coal traffic through the suburbs of Brisbane.

    4BC – Coal Trains

  • Flood management worsens Lockyer Valley floods


      Energex_Mt_SylviaDiane and Mark Bruhn live in the Lockyer Valley and are alarmed by the mismanagement of the waterways that continues to make floods worse through landclearing. They have been trying to communicate their views to State Government about possible land management factors which may have played a part in the recent unbelievable flood they’ve had across both the 2011 and 2013 floods and now have photographic evidence supporting their case.

    We tried our best in 2011, to have local and State Government listen to our concerns http://www.thechronicle.com.au/news/earthworks-destroy-creeks-waterways-lockyer-valley/1067473/.

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