Tamar River
NOW that we have had the one-in-100-year flood, that should have cleaned a lot of the sediment and silt from our rivers or natural flood plains of Launceston, we should be raking or pumping the silt out of the rivers so there will lesser deposits remaining for our future.
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The lake seems like a good idea, but the alluvial silt will still come down from the two rivers with nowhere to go other than be pumped out to a settling pond.
Maybe if the weir or dam could be incorporated with a second bridge over the Tamar and linked up with the forgotten Eastern bypass, this might ease the traffic congestion in the Launceston CBD.
Anthony Galvin, Mayfield.
UTAS Stadium
WITH Launceston soon to have its iconic York Park renamed again, this time to University Of Tasmania Stadium (what a mouthful), why don’t we just shorten all of that into UTas Park.
What other surprises does the council have for us? More than likely how Utah in the US got its title.
David Parker, West Launceston.
Christmas Decorations
I AM assuming that the Launceston City Council will shortly be making plans for the annual wasting of ratepayer funds in order to put up religious regalia around the city.
I wonder what better ways these funds could be used for? Just a thought.
David Broughton, Legana.
MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT
PREMIER Will Hodgman should not offer conciliation to Ruth Forrest.
He should instead offer briefings from Education and Health and Safety on what constitutes real bullying.
I was bullied both physically and verbally as a schoolboy. Two members of Parliament arguing about policy is not bullying.
Real bullying is when you are terrified to get on the school bus; real bullying is when you go hungry because someone has taken your lunch money; real bullying is when you come home in tears after a day of denegation and name-calling.
Martin Luther, Bellerive.
Custom and Culture
I COMPLETELY agree with Ron Baines (The Examiner, October 19) in regard to newcomers respecting our customs and culture, rather than trying to change them.
Most Australians do indeed bend over backwards to accommodate their beliefs, but how far will we bend before we break?
Val Clarke, Kings Meadows.
Solar Power
FOUR-and-a-half years ago I was encouraged through advertisements/state and federal governments and the Greens to enhance the power of the Sun and move to solar power, as a way of reducing our power bill and doing the environment a favour in the meantime.
So we did our research and took the plunge, purchased $30,000 of panels based on a fairly reasonable payback period at 28c/kW we would be getting back from the Hydro for every kilowatt returned to the grid.
This was called a bio-directional feed.
Then came the election – the Liberals got in saying they were going to continue the status quo only to find out some time down the track we no longer on my account get a bio-directional feed. We get a legacy feed (what that means is they think there helping me out) and next year the return goes from 28 cents to 6 cents.
We need to make this an election issue who do they think they are kidding. We've been conned again by governments and bureaucrats.
Before you do your sums on solar power, work out the payback period.
To make this an election issue we as solar power investors need to unite.