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Subscriber only A new Climate Change policy by Ballina Shire Council will go on public exhibition this week. The document makes it a goal for the council to reduce its organisational greenhouse gas emissions to net-zero by 2030. It also makes it its goal to use 100 per cent renewable electricity for its operations by 2030. These goals were qualified by council staff as ambitious but achievable . The community engagement includes the option of expanding the policy, to incorporate a greater address of community emissions and consideration of cost implications associated with it, based on additional revenue. Council also agreed to examine the creation of a part-time position role to support the implementation of the Climate Change Policy and associated plans and actions through the workforce planning process.
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Subscriber only A new Climate Change policy by Ballina Shire Council will go on public exhibition this week. The document makes it a goal for the council to reduce its organisational greenhouse gas emissions to net-zero by 2030. It also makes it its goal to use 100 per cent renewable electricity for its operations by 2030. These goals were qualified by council staff as ambitious but achievable . The community engagement includes the option of expanding the policy, to incorporate a greater address of community emissions and consideration of cost implications associated with it, based on additional revenue. Council also agreed to examine the creation of a part-time position role to support the implementation of the Climate Change Policy and associated plans and actions through the workforce planning process.
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Subscriber only Producers of Australian prawns have asked coastal residents to not use imported prawns as bait when fishing, to protect our crustaceans. Kim Hooper, executive officer at the Australian Prawn Farmers Association, made a call to Northern Rivers fishermen to avoid using imported prawns sold for human consumption as bait, even though prawns bought at retail shops are cheaper than actual bait prawns. The risk is very high because there are lot of fishermen who use imported prawns as bait, she said. Some people are trying to do the right thing, but it only takes one person to decimate the industry.
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Subscriber only Producers of Australian prawns have asked coastal residents to not use imported prawns as bait when fishing, to protect our crustaceans. Kim Hooper, executive officer at the Australian Prawn Farmers Association, made a call to Northern Rivers fishermen to avoid using imported prawns sold for human consumption as bait, even though prawns bought at retail shops are cheaper than actual bait prawns. The risk is very high because there are lot of fishermen who use imported prawns as bait, she said. Some people are trying to do the right thing, but it only takes one person to decimate the industry.