#agchatoz — Public Fediverse posts
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Australia,
the country that wastes millions of dollars on underutilised desalination plants,
… yet wastes drinking water on data centres https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/dec/04/thirsty-work-how-the-rise-of-massive-datacentres-strains-australias-drinking-water-supply
#AusPol #AusBiz #AgChatOz -
Victorian Govenment and VicGrid need to wake up to reality:
The trauma caused by Coal Seam Gas, that led to #LockTheGates is still raw.
Force and ‘law’ isn’t going to help gain access.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/rural/2025-11-18/vni-west-access-denied-by-farmers/106020096
#AusPol #AusBiz #VicPol #VicLaw #AgChatOz #SocialLicence -
Mudgee's Lowe Wines becomes Australia's largest winery to go off grid with Solar and battery storage.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10-30/mudgee-off-electricity-grid-winery-lowe-wines/105941576
#AusPol #AgChatOz #AusBiz -
A reminder about the critical importance of conservation and biodiversity for bluesky research.
We literally don’t know about what exists on our world, and what potential it has on medicinal development.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04-13/stonefish-toxin-could-help-fight-parasitic-worms-in-livestock/105160120
#AusPol #AusSci #AusSci #AgChatOz #ClimateCrisis #Medicine #Biodiversity #Livestock -
Case for expanding railway networks:
Watch: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DHa3ZIfoWie/?igsh=MmdkaGhlMTVua3o2
#AusPol #AusBiz #AgChatOz #ClimateAction #FoodSecurity #Logistics -
8 animals & 5 plants added to Australia's Threatened Species List this month.
Fauna: 3 freshwater fish, 3 lizards, a frog & turtle.
Flora: 1 rainforest tree, 2 flowering shrubs, a daisy & orchid species#auspol #NSWpol #Qldpol #ausag #agchatoz #SpringSt
https://1earthmedia.com/8-animals-5-plants-added-to-threatened-species-this-month/ -
The real Regional Queenslanders that say electric vehicles are worth it
Love stories like these. It’s real. It’s genuine. It’s not politicians making up facts based on their assumptions from an ivory tower.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-06-10/regional-rural-queensland-electric-vehicle-uptake/103914408
#QldPol #QldBiz #AgChatOz #ElectricVehicles #Farmers -
Ironically, we can thank the disastrous approach to dramatically expanding Coal Seam Gas for planting the seeds for the grassroots movement
that established the (rightful) scepticism towards Carbon Storage.
(As well as the high profile disasters in the USA)https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-05-24/great-artesian-basin-carbon-storage-plan-rejected/103889302
#AusPol #QldPol #AgChatOz #LockTheGate -
Think we need to talk about some consumer and community rights and business obligations when it comes to public-use (infrastructural) services.
One example might be the forced relinquishing of discontinued assets for communities without appropriate replacement network coverage or a kind of ‘Zero-dollar licence to continue operation’ for NFP/non-govt community organisations.
https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/why-half-a-million-australians-may-soon-be-unable-to-call-triple-zero/7gmv56ydh
#AusPol #AusBiz #AgChatOz -
This idiotic Queensland Farmer,
… as well as the supportive Coalition/LNP political bandwagon, evidently never thought about Nuclear Power and the impact it has on local water quality and consumption.
https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/why-this-farmer-would-rather-live-near-a-nuclear-power-plant-than-a-wind-farm/md5tdr0w8
#AusPol #QldPol #AusBiz #AgChatOz #Energytransition #ClimateCrisis #WaterResources #ResourceManagement -
USA livestock welfare standards needs to be put under the spotlight.
This is hardly an isolated case in terms of overall disease control.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/rural/2024-03-28/bird-flu-found-in-dairy-cows-in-united-states-/103641842
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“[Australians] think food prices at the checkout are bad now. They ain’t seen nothing yet.” - UNFCCC Executive Secretary
https://www.smh.com.au/environment/climate-change/they-ain-t-seen-nothing-yet-un-boss-names-climate-change-impacts-coming-to-australia-20240225-p5f7n5.html
#AusPol #AusBiz #AgChatOz #ClimateAction -
Dutton commits to defunding EDO:
Dutton may as well declare he’s pro ‘big business’ at the expense of local communities and smaller businesses.
The Environmental Defenders Office has represented many communities and smaller businesses, like local Farmers, for cases against ‘Goliaths’ like multinational mining.
How else will ‘David’ fight ‘Goliath’ if Dutton refuses to let him bring a ‘slingshot’?
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-01-30/dutton-commits-to-defunding-environmental-defenders-office/103403866
#AusPol #AusBiz #AgChatOz -
Worth also remembering as there are some frustrated by ‘bad calls’ there are also others like Doug Wright who decided to sell, and was glad to have made the decision.
https://amp.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/jan/14/australia-weather-el-nino-rain-drought-impact-farming
#AusPol #AusBiz #AgChatOz -
Farmers frustrated?
Hard to be sympathetic when Farmers were warned that climate change will make forecasts more complex and difficult to predict.
A significant proportion of Australian Nationals and Agricultural lobbyist groups advocated for denialist and protectionist positioning on Climate Action
https://www.abc.net.au/news/rural/2024-01-22/farmers-frustrated-after-incorrect-bom-el-nino-forecast/103351428
#AusPol #AusBiz #AgChatOz #ClimateCrisis -
Warnings about Antartica and its potential effect on the Australian economy, including Agriculture.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/jan/21/antarctica-melting-ice-shelf-sea-cover-professor-matt-king
#AusPol #AusBiz #AgChatOz -
From Asbestos to Fire Ants, NSW government seems to be struggling with ensuring supplies used in development of public spaces are safe.
What’s happening with the supply chain?
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-01-20/fire-ants-detected-wardell/103371764
#AusPol #NSWPol #Ausbiz #Biosecurity #AgChatOz -
This is outrageous, there’s absolutely no detail about the effects and cost at a national level.
This is not something that NSW should unilaterally decide.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/rural/2023-12-21/varroa-mite-nsw-beekeepers-future-pest-management/103246142
#NSWPol #AusPol #AgChatOz -
Hey, ‘Big Meat and Dairy’,
You know when ‘Fossil Fuel’ are advocating for targets to be strictly based on emissions, without mentioning fossil fuels.
It’s to say ‘Everyone should do the heavy lifting’ despite the historical profiteering and procrastination from Fossil Fuels sector.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/dec/09/big-meat-dairy-lobbyists-turn-out-record-numbers-cop28
#AusPol #AgChatOz #COP28 #AusBiz -
From August 2023 (Previous post above), fast-forward to November-December 2023 (below)
Fire Ants discovered below the Queensland border.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-11-26/nsw-farmers-red-fire-ant-infestation-murwillumbah-biosecurity/103152486
#QldPol #NSWPol #Biosecurity #PestManagement #AgChatOz -
This is such typical Australian problem:
No private or political interest in funding vital native bee research in Australia.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/rural/2023-11-25/australian-native-bee-research-funding-lacking-researchers-sa/103146584
#AusPol #AusBiz #AgChatOz #Science #Research #Innovation #VarroaMite #Biodiversity #Sustainability #Medicine #Nutrition -
OMG
🤬Why does the rest of Australia have to be threatened by a problem caused by New South Wales Govt.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-09-20/varroa-mite-eradication-efforts-abandoned-australia/102876418 -
Global food shortage by 2050, warns US Special envoy
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/sep/05/climate-crisis-could-contribute-to-a-global-food-shortage-by-2050-us-special-envoy-on-food-security-warns
#climatecrisis #auspol #agchatoz -
Where on earth does the ‘Third country Quarantine’ idea come from?
Everyone else remember how effective it was during COVID-19 for human contagions? #sarcasmfont
The quarantine period should be entirely in Australia.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-08-27/dog-owners-china-spend-time-and-money-to-import-pets-australia/102750436
#AusPol #AgChatOz #AnimalRights #HumanRights -
Fire Ants: 'Throwing everything at our efforts' reads more like 'playing with the fringes'.
Considering the closing end of Winter, you'd think this would be the last timing to increase the number of field officers doing surveys and baiting in Queensland;
while NSW increase field officers to first deploy on Verroa mites, and redeloy where needed to survey far-north NSW for fire ants.https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/aug/16/queensland-and-nsw-authorities-given-stop-and-search-powers-to-halt-red-fire-ant-infestation
#NSWPol #QldPol #AusPol #AgChatOz #Biosecurity -
Knew it was too optimistic to think NSW floods would do something about varroa mites.
Several months on and it’s still a problem.
NSW should be held to answer to a national inquiry - it’s a problem that potentially affects the entire nation
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-07-31/beekeepers-nsw-hunter-question-success-varroa-mite-response/102659386
#AusPol #NSWPol #AgChatOz #Biosecurity -
The complete lack of genuine interbusiness relations and lack of concern with science - In other words, greed-driven CSG expansion - is the sole reason that CSG companies find themselves facing these potential liabilities.
Show no sympathy. They deserve the cost of #LockTheGate movement against them.
#AusBiz #AgChatOz https://inqld.com.au/statewide/2023/07/28/csg-companies-may-have-to-pay-to-fix-farmland-subsidence/ -
Farmers urged to get ready for likely supercharged El Niño
Farmers for Climate Action is hosting a webinar “El Niño explained” next week, bringing together a range of speakers including BoM & Birchip Cropping Group
#agchatoz #ausag #auspol
https://1earthmedia.com/farmers-urged-to-get-ready-for-likely-supercharged-el-nino/