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Post by youcantry on Jul 17, 2008 12:06:40 GMT 10
museumvictoria.com.au/About/MV-News/2008/Giant-squid-public-dissection-at-Melbourne-Museum/
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Post by Deleted on Jul 17, 2008 17:17:44 GMT 10
Thats Dr Mark Norman; he was my student teacher many years ago when I was teaching secondary science. He went on and did his PhD in marine science, specialising in cephalopods. The marine environment is facing threats on multiple fronts as industrialisation and development empty toxic pollutants into Bass Strait. The dredging of Port Phillip Bay, which is only to allow more cheap imports into the country, is stirring up far more mud than intended, so much so that the penguins feeding in the bay are restricted from seeing their prey The desalination plant proposed to be built near Wonthaggi to allow Melbourne residents to keep wasting more water is going to release concentrated saline solution into the nearby Marine National Park. And the pulp mill in northern Tassie is going to release another stream of toxic stew into Bass Strait, so that their forests can be sold to the Japanese. All of which is happening with the connivance of wall to wall Labor governments, at the expense of the natural environment in which magnificent creatures like these are trying to survive.  |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 17, 2008 20:05:26 GMT 10
The penguins doing it tough again, eh? I had the idea the channel they're dredging is not a natural structure - it was itself dredged out back in the 1940s. Didn't Dennis have something to say about that?  I agree pollution is a bad thing but Bass Strait has a huge volume of water pass thru it from west to east, doesn't it? That'd flush out the nasties floating around, surely? Be a good idea to chuck a few pollies in the pipe, in that case. Flush them out. Prolly poison the bloody fish, they would. |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 20, 2008 11:45:49 GMT 10
I even had a ride or two on the original dredge, Captained by an uncle. It's good to have the Govt pay for boats that you can use to go fishing. Won't catch much while they're digging but you can trawl while they're traveling and going out to dump the silt.
I wonder if the new carbon taxes wil be applied to imported goods and work like a tariff.
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I agree pollution is a bad thing but Bass Strait has a huge volume of water pass thru it from west to east, doesn't it? That'd flush out the nasties floating around, surely? Be a good idea to chuck a few pollies in the pipe, in that case. Flush them out. Prolly poison the bloody fish, they would.