Sydney news: Black Hawk down in Sydney park, fight against powerlines in Kosciuszko
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No-one was injured when the Black Hawk helicopter made its emergency landing.
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Independents reject Kosciuszko powerlines
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The NSW Parliament s four key Independents have urged the state government to reject Transgrid s plans to build overhead transmission lines through Kosciuszko National Park.
Independent MPs Greg Piper, Alex Greenwich and Joe McGirr have been joined by NSW Upper House MLC Justin Field in opposing the move.
Transgrid s plans show transmission lines on large steel lattice towers up to 75 metres high through the world-renowned Kosciuszko Park.
17 February 2021
A prominent environmental group has said it is “outraged” by a proposal to build overhead transmission infrastructure through the Kosciuszko National Park, with the National Parks Association of NSW saying the works would destroy a significant portion of the national park.
The NSW government is planning to amend the Plan of Management for Kosciuszko National Park, exempting the Snowy 2.0 development from a requirement that all electricity network infrastructure be built underground.
The management plan is intended to protect the Kosciuszko National Park, and placing electricity network infrastructure underground would minimise the impact of new transmission lines that are set to be constructed to serve the Snowy 2.0 expansion.
On the 400th anniversary of Columbus‘s voyage of discovery, October 12, 1892, Chauncey Depew, a famous lawyer, statesman and public speaker, made a speech that became known as the “Columbian Oration” at the Columbian Exposition in Chicago, which was itself a celebration of Columbus.
This day belongs not to America, but to the world. The results of the event it commemorates are the heritage of the peoples of every race and clime. We celebrate the emancipation of man. The preparation was the work of almost countless centuries; the realization was the revelation of one. The Cross on Calvary was hope; the cross raised on San Salvador was opportunity. But for the first, Columbus would never have sailed; but for the second, there would have been no place for the planting, the nurture, and the expansion of civil and religious liberty. …