DEAR News Of The Area, DEREK Musgrove speaks from experience and the practicality of his engineering background and 45 years in the power generation industry. His logical conclusion that net zero cannot be achieved 20 years earlier than the agreed target for 2050 makes absolute sense to me. Given our population grew

DEAR News Of The Area, Derek Musgrave's suggestion of replacing Liddell Power plant by small modular nuclear technology seems ludicrous to me. 1 - I don’t think Australia has the knowledge to build it and it will take too long. France, who has the technology, has estimated that the first date for their

DEAR News Of The Area, TIME to stop the fake facts about electrical generation. Derek Musgrove in letters to the editor on 25 January calls for small modular nuclear reactors to replace coal. Unfortunately Derek they don't exist. They are only in prototype and if you search Google it will tell

DEAR News Of The Area, I REFER to the article, ‘Seeking the Truth’, and Mr Pratzky casting himself as someone fighting "disinformation”, suggesting that our community believes floating offshore wind turbines kill whales due to some form of misinformation conspiracy. He even suggests we should fast track the Australian Government’s unprecedented

DEAR News Of The Area, I reject the notion that small modular nuclear reactors (SMR) are a viable power source (NOTA January 25). There are no units under construction in the western world and no design has been fully certified for construction. In the United States, the only 'viable' SMR project

DEAR News Of The Area, AUSTRALIA’S long-delayed energy system transformation is happening, and not before time. Old coal-fired power stations are now too expensive, inflexible and unreliable as they limp towards retirement. Australia’s $220 billion in fossil-fuel exports in FY2023 will progressively meet their demise due to global trends. Climate change is

DEAR News Of The Area, AS we embrace REDFEB, Heart Awareness Month, this February, Heart Research Australia is dedicated to reshaping how Australians approach cardiovascular well-being without causing financial strain. Beyond our collective effort to raise funds for life-saving research, our goal this year is to shed light on the financial

DEAR News Of The Area, WOW! What a weekend we had in Bowraville. The annual Bowraville Book Fair was a huge success. I would like to thank NOTA (Rochelle and Nerida in particular) for their contribution to making this event so successful. A very big thank you to the team of

Opinion DEAR News Of The Area, WHAT a shame that the shade and beautiful trees in Woolgoolga upset a small body of people when they are a well known attraction. I was part of the planting of the original trees in Nightingale Street. In the early 1980s Don Clich, a long term

DEAR News Of The Area, IN recent years, there has been a concerning trend observed in Labor-led state governments in Australia - the locking up of productive state forests. These forests, which could be utilised for sustainable timber harvesting – alongside healthy and productive pastimes such as hunting, fishing, prospecting and