Workers blockade site...

[KraftyPg]

Wasn't the desal a Labor idea ?

Doesn't really matter who's idea it was, on the day it will be needed and that day will come, who ever is in power will take the glory for having the foresight to switch it on and use it.

<TIC> GEEEEESE , the country must be going gang busters. what with all you guys have all this time to come on here and whinge. Now if you really had to work, then you would all be too tired to bother </tic>.

It is kind of ironic when people take the time out to whinge about others whinging.

However we are aussie, we are never too tired to whinge and if whinging time does become tight we'll just take time off work to make more whinging time, it's the aussie way.

Then if you still don't get enough whinging time you go on strike and make other peoples lives harder all because your voice is more important than theirs.

 

[nakedape]

Wasn't the desal a Labor idea ? On the recommendation of Tim Flannery.

He has been quiet as of late, apparently it was never gonna rain again and our dam's would be empty in 5 years.

Neither had anything to do with it -- especially Flannery (Desal plants are liquid electricity & Vic electricity is sourced from the dirtiest power generators in the world- ergo, more CO2).

Was actually brought about by the smoke and mirrors act of lobbyists working for major construction companies who saw a way to make a fortune whilst peddling snake oil to an uneducated public. I reckon my conspiracy theory is better than yours -- more imaginative at least!

 

[KraftyPg]

Just don't piss on our coal, there is enough under ground in this area to power the grid until well into the next century. It may not be the cleanest form of electricity (although they are working on it) but it is by far the cheapest and easiest.

Strangely enough there is enough coal in the higher and lower seams here to create a mining boom bigger than WA and QLD put together, I don't think we should dig it all up because all of us here would be living in the fcuking big hole but we shouldn't be exempt from digging it up and exporting it to create jobs and make money like other mining industries have.

 

[Tappet]

Not only 'it may not be the cleanest" it is the filthyest with only brown coal exceeding that.

 

[KraftyPg]

Cows farting in the atmosphere is filthy and dangerous too but we still use cows for many purposes. The day green energy becomes viable and affordable for all Australian's maybe there is an argument for not using brown coal but even if that day ever happens there is way too much coal in Victoria alone for someone not to realise what a resource it is just like iron ore and other crap we pull out of the ground and export.

 

[nakedape]

Just don't piss on our coal ...

If pissing on it would make it a clean source of energy then I would -- But it won't, so neither will I.

 

[KraftyPg]

Don't worry you're not Victorian, we wont share our wealth with you when we finally kick those greenies out of the state and are allowed to make money from such a valuable resource.

And while your not pissing on it also don't send fire fighters to put out a fire in a coal stack because they have NFI about putting out coal fires.

 

[pbk1776]

Good on them! About time somebody took a stand against this sort of horse manure.
And this thing about skills shortage is the biggest load of bullshit ever seriously. I'm in the power industry where there is "apparently" a shortage of linesmen. Interesting, since there is linesmen applying for jobs left right and centre including 4-5 that I know personally... But the more interesting thing is... Somehow the companies that advertise for these positions always seem to end up hiring foreign workers. In this case a LOT from the philipines.
Nothing against them! We work with the from time to time, and they're great friendly blokes who know their stuff, but speaking to them about their hourly wages, reveals all. It's all about the mighty $$$$$$. They're willing to come here and work for peanuts, and the bosses here are rubbing hands in excitement with $ signs in gleaming from their greedy eyeballs. There is no shortage. At least I can speak so from a power-line industry perspective.
Sad thing is, there is nothing there to regulate or stop it and it will keep on keeping on across many industries.

you can see it in the IT industry - a lot of old timers with a lot of experience without a job - one they send jobs off shore and secondly 457 visa for cheaper contracts

 

[180degrees]

It is very easy to outsource the jobs in IT, building something requiring specialist skills onsite not so much.