FINE WINE AND DINING
CITY of Gastronomy? (The Examiner, November 12).
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Who came up with that word?
Is that supposed to mean a place of fine wine and dining?
More like a word suited to climate crisis hysteria, conjuring up images of gastroenteritis, diarrhea and methane, mestinks ... Pardon - methinks.
Ovie Taylor, Newstead.
WE LIVE IN INTERESTING TIMES
IT seems that the Liberals have turned to the Greens, for they now believe in electric cars.
And Barnaby Joyce would like the Greens to shoot our livestock to save the planet.
However, Scott Morrison still believes that big business is better equipped to plan our future than the government.
Confusing, what next?
Horst Schroeder, Devonport.
STOP MUDDYING TAMAR WATERS
MANKIND, by the construction of dams, levy banks and agricultural clearing, has changed the natural Tamar estuary, but now mankind has an opportunity to right the wrongs. What are the advantages of a freshwater Tamar Lake?
It would get rid of the mud; provide plenty of fresh water for irrigation and industry (e.g. Bell Bay Hydrogen proposal); create constant depth of the river and accommodate leisure and tourism boating activities; eliminate the invasive rice grass infestation; protect against anticipated sea level rises; and reduce the risk of future flooding.
The science for the construction of barrages and formation of freshwater lakes is accepted worldwide.
Places such as England, Singapore, Wales, France, Pakistan and many others have barrages in use - as far back as 1931, the Murray-Darling Basin Commission authorised the construction of five barrages.
So, the technology to create a monumental legacy for Launceston exists.
What is needed is communal drive and political will to create our own freshwater lake on the Tamar River.
Imagine Launceston nestled on a pristine freshwater lake.
Make the dream a reality for future generations.
Talk with your politicians and don't ask why, but ask why not?
Make the mud disappear.
Peter Millar, Trevallyn.
IT'S TIME FOR ACTION
THE recent full-page statement from the Tamar Action Group argued their case for a freshwater lake well and their reasoning for this fairly radical change to our waterway was sound.
If we do nothing, then nothing will change - what has been tried in the past was a mere band aid to "patch up" the many problems that beset the Tamar.
I look at the rice grass infestation every day and despair, thinking back to other so-called solutions to environmental problems our country has opted for in the past - prickly pear, cane toad, myxomatosis etc.
Be brave Launceston and Tasmania.
Jan Dorman, Swan Point.
SPEEDING TAKES A TOLL
ROBERT Stonjek (The Examiner, November 11) makes a number of unsupported, vague and false claims in defending the excessive speed limits in Tasmania that give it the highest per capita road toll of all the Australian states.
Tasmania has the worst road toll in Australia. I would back Tasmania's Road Safety Advisory Council research which found that a speed limit reduction of 10km/h would save 21 lives a year over Mr Stonjek's wild assertions any day.