Climate Change
Town was Gero Mate.......
You had to mention her didn't ya.....I just got over her a couple of weeks ago...
Stewie was a lad....
You still owe me for half the sixy of Emu bitter I bought at Northhampton...
I will never forget her legs
Haha.......Classic....
I will never forget how she never said " I love you" to me...
Yep, those legs were like a long cool glass of water.....
Her name was Lee- Kiwi Lass...
SuperF, we should feel honoured mate........out of the 8 blokes at the bluff that year, she chose us to take her to see INXS..........
Ahh Lee , that’s right , pretty cool chick , totally natural beauty. Didn’t care that no one showered for weeks at a time , I ended up working with stewie in town rebuilding the bowling greens, the local bowls club handcuffed him once they found out he was a Greenkeeper
I reckon he still might be in Carnarvon as we speak
And that cheesy handle bar moustache...
Good chatting with ya megzee, I’ve got a few photos of you surfing solid bluff but there on lembongan .
No worries mate...Great to chat as well Super....
Solid Gnarloo was not photographed in those days.....As you know because you were out there....
If I mention the word Lee in my sleep tonight, I won't get a punch in the face....
My wife's name is Lee....
Take care Brother..
Let’s not forget that the cost “ blowouts” on Barrow are used as tax avoidance and that’s why the project is predicted to never pay tax during its lifetime. Company X Australia borrows the money from Company X US at eye watering interest rates and the debt balloons into eternity. Many of the companies charging Company X outrageous rates for all the essential safety, quarantine, production and construction were either owned by Company X, subsidiaries or simpatico. Those companies don’t miss a beat. The whole system is designed to minimise returns to whichever country the company is plundering.
Yeah blowin I have no idea about how the system works so thanks for that. How they were ever allowed to build that plant on barrow is a crime in it self , 28 species found no where else in the world , a huge turtle hatchery . There is no reason it couldn’t have been built on the mainland. It was a interesting place as far as its wildlife and geographic history went .
Very interesting Blowin....You have great insight into how those capers work
I was involved in the offshore drilling scope of the Sydney Desalination plant....
Why does "monumental cock show" spring to mind again....
Superfreak....nailed it......Barrow should NEVER had been touched, but that's where the construction industry "Environmental consultants" honed their skills....
The next rort is tax payer funding of the governments silver bullet for reducing emissions. The most high profile project at the moment is Chevrons on Barrow Island mainly because it hasn’t been meeting expectations. So far it has received $60mil from the LNP
The thing is though, Australian tax money is going to the biggest tax dodgers in the country.
https://reneweconomy.com.au/sand-clogs-up-australias-only-operating-carb...
https://business.gov.au/grants-and-programs/carbon-capture-use-and-stora...
Thanks for that article Fliplid
I did a bit of time out Barrow. I used to go swimming all the time. There was a little cove down in front of Production camp where I’d lay in the sun and swim amongst the turtles and little reef sharks. Illicit swimming is the best type of swimming. Fuck Chevron.
Yeah blowin you must have been there early as they put a stop to the swimming , you could walk on that beach but not swim , I didn’t bother just did laps of the pool.
Jeezus!!!
El Crikeyo.....
Set the ocean on fire, try to put it out with water, hose doesn't reach.
adam12 wrote:Set the ocean on fire, try to put it out with water, hose doesn't reach.
Classic
My Spanish isn't great but the last line - I hope the llamas were OK.
Never seen a burning lake of fire in the ocean before.
Ruptured gas line at about 100m water depth so flame length was from the seabed.......The surface was where the flame "head" and oxygen met...
It was extinguished after 5 hours by some type of nitrogen suppression method.
No injuries
Supafreak- no swimming allowed when I was there either. They nixed beach walking during turtle season too. That’s when the swimming was best- when it was outlawed.
Liquid nitrogen is perfect for putting fires out on water ..
Here's what to do if your pool catches on fire.
Blowin wrote:Supafreak- no swimming allowed when I was there either. They nixed beach walking during turtle season too. That’s when the swimming was best- when it was outlawed.
. Haha ok blowin now I understand , good on ya , knew a few blokes on barges that were fishing with barbless hooks lol
VJ
"My Spanish isn't great but the last line - I hope the llamas were OK."
HaHa.
In Chile, they used to call the police water cannon trucks "'spitting" llamas
Nice TS!
Nice timing tubeshooter , just watched the news and that fire has been put out now with………. Nitrogen
Just read your post megzee , missed it before
All good Super....Glad it didn't turn into another Deepwater Horizon type disaster...
Seems they got it sorted pretty quickly...
They wanna be careful, this is just the sort of thing that wakes Godzilla.
No biggy
Just add it to all the other shit that's going on at the moment....
Bilys next venture https://www.forbes.com/sites/arielcohen/2021/01/11/bill-gates-backed-cli...
I like Bill, but this honestly scares me, id have 100 times more fear of this than climate change.
What bothers me indo is who gives them permission on behalf of the world to try such things ? Who gives musk permission to have his satellite trains blinking across the sky ? He wants to put up 4000 of them . When I look up and see his 40-50 satellite train I try to imagine what 4000 would look like .
A retired Australian ex-military brass was telling me the satellites are weaponized with gnarly bombs known as 'Rods from God'.
@troppo , the rods from god had me intrigued so a quick search found this https://militarywatchmagazine.com/article/project-thor-what-america-s-ne... they weigh 10,000 kg and I think musk satellites are only about 250kg but scary nonetheless
Musk’s satellites are weaponised?
I highly doubt it Andy M , just an eye sore
I was doubting it too.
yeah i wasn't referring specifically to elons satellites.but what's already going on up there
@troppo , how’s this bit from the link I posted “ this new weapon promises to deliver strikes more powerful than many types of nuclear and chemical attack - while avoiding the unfavourable fallout which follows nuclear strikes. ”
Our Future?...right thread this time.
@Supa yeah shits gone crazy!i was hoping humanity would evolve and get closer back to nature,not this stuff.i was told these bombs are super accurate as well.they sure did create some good names,rods of god n project thor!
why is elon blanketing the sky?so we can watch porn n check the surf report?
The world would be a better place without the likes of Gates.
Abmay wrote:The world would be a better place without the likes of Gates.
I don't agree, id say the world would be a better place if all the mega rich were like Bill gates.
He has given away almost half his wealth over 43 billion to all kinds of causes, mostly education, environment and health.
Sadly he is just an easy target for conspiracy theories etc
Indo, I frequently disagree with your comments on this site, however I can agree that the world would be better if the mega rich had Bill Gates sense of philanthropy.
This is interesting .
"Indonesia sets coal benchmark price at highest in a decade on Chinese demand
Indonesia set its coal benchmark price at the highest in more than a decade, an official document published by its Energy and Mineral Resources Ministry showed on Monday, supported by sustained demand from China.
The ministry set the benchmark coal price at $115.35 per tonne in July, higher than the $100.33 per tonne in June and the highest since $117.6 per tonne in May, 2011, Refinitiv data showed.
"China's domestic coal supply capacity continues to run low while power generation activities resume," Energy and Mineral Resources Ministry spokesman Agung Pribadi said in a statement, adding demand also increased from Japan and South Korea.
"This has an impact on the increase in global coal prices," he said.
China unofficially banned imports from its top supplier Australia last year, with Chinese buyers informally told by custom officials not to purchase Australian coal.
This has resulted in China looking elsewhere to source coal, making Indonesia's one of the biggest beneficiaries.
China signed a deal worth around $1.5 billion to buy Indonesian thermal coal last year. Read also: RI miners sign $1.46b coal shipment contract with Chinese traders "
https://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2021/07/06/indonesia-sets-coal-bench...
Basically for all the haters of Adani etc (yeah i know India not China) thinking you are saving the world, well as has been said many times before the reality is these countries like China and India can just go elsewhere, and as has been said many times before Indonesia's coal is way more polluting than ours as has a higher moisture content(about 3 times higher than ours) and higher ash & sulphur content.(also not good)
And if you compare a coal mine in Indonesia to Australia, they would be worlds apart in environmental practices
Here we go crew, things are getting real. TLDR: US and EU to impose carbon 'level playing field' on goods manufactured outside their jurisdictions:
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/europes-expensive-climate-club-an...
"The EU and the US want to impose trade tariffs to bring the cost of carbon-dioxide emissions caused by the manufacture of an imported good into alignment with what a domestic producer would pay to produce the same good. European and American companies are less competitive because they have to pay for their emissions while foreign companies that export to them don’t. Thus rules to reduce emissions will encourage companies in the West to “offshore” their production to developing countries which have less onerous restrictions on emissions, a process known as “carbon leakage”. Brussels and Washington, it is claimed, merely intend to “level the playing field”."
"On July 26th, China opened its first defensive salvo against the EU’s plan to impose the world's first carbon border tax, stating that it intruded climate issues into international trading norms, broke WTO rules and undermined prospects for economic growth. Earlier in April when it became apparent that both the EU and the US Biden administration were considering extra-territorial and unilateral policies to enforce upon the world their own predilections to “fight climate change”, India also adopted a position similar to China’s. It issued a joint statement with the BASIC bloc — Brazil, South Africa, India and China — calling CBAM “discriminatory“ and expressing its “ grave concern”."
Those who are familiar with the economic rivalry between Great Britain and Germany from around 1870 till the start of the First World War might recall Joseph Chamberlain's "Imperial Preference" bill of 1905 (iirc) whereby Britain shifted from being a force for global free trade, to favouring trade produced within the Dominions and Empire. At the time Britain was a large import market much like the US/EU is today, and ran trade deficits with many nations - so they were a big customer. This seems similar, with a carbon requirement. It will piss off those countries that manufacture without regard for CO2 emissions (and looking at N Hemi coal fired power plants being built, it seems like a good way to slow this pollution) - an it will probably in turn be passed on to Australia with its raw resources. Or not, since our biggest customer blocked our coal - maybe a blessing in disguise.
Addendum: probably a good time to get that A2AD defence system up.
Protecting the environment is racist!
Blowin wrote:Protecting the environment is racist!
No it it's not blowin, and it never has been. Wanting to round up South Koreans for immediate deportation is racist. blowin. You are a racist. Just own it and stop with the Hansonesque "I am not a racist" bullshit.
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