Letters of 22 December 2020: Negligence threatens our virus success
Dec 22, 2020 – 12.01am
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Australians paid a massive price to effectively eliminate COVID-19. It will take decades to repay the debt. This was an investment to save lives and allow the economy to recover.
The NSW government had plenty of time to devise plans and implement effective controls for passengers and flight crew arriving from overseas. This was clearly going to be the prime source of any recontamination.
We will pay a heavy price for the Sydney northern beaches COVID-19 outbreak.
Nick Moir
Which government departments failed? Who are the responsible politicians? To what extent are the airlines culpable?
We could do with your help here, Dan Andrews
We could do with your help here, Dan Andrews
December 21, 2020 10.00pm
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The Age, email letters@theage.com.au. Please include your home address and telephone number.
CONTAINING THE VIRUS
We could do with your help here, Dan Andrews
The Age online, 21/12).
Gladys Berijiklian still won’t mandate the wearing of face masks and took too long in locking down the northern beaches, but Andrews would have had all this implemented within the first two days. Berejiklian puts the economy first and public heath second, whereas for Andrews public health was his number one priority.
Colorado air-quality regulators have walked back plans to require the early closure of three Colorado coal-fired power plants, including the Craig Station in Moffat County that is responsible for hundreds of jobs in northwest Colorado.
The Air Quality Control Commission on Wednesday unanimously reversed a preliminary decision it made last month to require the Craig Station, the Platte River Power Authorityâs Rawhide plant and Colorado Springsâ Ray Nixon plant to close by the end of 2028 to address regional haze that impacts national parks and wilderness areas.
Tri-State Generation and Transmission Association operates the Craig Station, and has planned to close the plant by the end of 2029. The other two plants reportedly have planned 2030 closing dates.
Garfield County commissioners will put up an extra $293,000 to pay off the remainder of this year’s bill in the multi-county Western Slope effort challenging recent changes to the way Colorado regulates oil and gas development.
Commissioners on Monday unanimously agreed to allocate the additional funds for 2020 on behalf of the Western & Rural Local Governments Coalition.
The group of 23 counties and municipalities across the region was led by Garfield County in the months-long effort, as the Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission (COGCC) and state Air Quality Control Commission (AQCC) worked to write sweeping new rules under Senate Bill 19-181.
Coastal destruction is no laughing matter
Coastal destruction is no laughing matter
December 15, 2020 10.00pm
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The Age, email letters@theage.com.au. Please include your home address and telephone number.
ENVIRONMENT
Coastal destruction is no laughing matter
The storm surges and inundation being experienced in southern Queensland are a result of more intense storms arising from climate change coinciding with a king tide. Scientists have been warning of this for decades, a consequence of global warming driven by too much carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. Not only have these warnings been ignored, but Peter Dutton famously joked about the inundation concerns from our Pacific island neighbours. Are they daring to laugh now?