Every fortnight on Tasmanian Times, widely-read Geoff Dickinson chooses Six of the past fortnight’s Best Reads.
Geoff’s Comment -Three items beneath are worth considering concerning and describing fracking.
1. The ABC News article highlights how it can be intrusive in an inner Sydney suburb,
2. The LA Limes article gives a reasonably balanced approach to the concern and the
3. Foodandwaterwatch.org article goes to an extreme.
Of course there was a side issue this week as well as Nicole Kidman has a property affected in the NSW Southern Highlands.
However, I look for the unintended consequences of certain actions and ask myself “Is clean coal carbon capture a case of fracking in reverse?”
Inner city coal seam drilling proposed
ABC online -Transcript and audio 7th July 2011
Singapore-based DART Energy is planning to drill for coal seam gas at an industrial site in St Peters, just seven kilometres from the Sydney CBD. They have been met with community opposition.
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/breakfast/stories/2011/3263176.htm
Fracking: The controversy around hydraulic fracturing [The conversation]
Opinion Piece LA Times 1st July 2011 Balanced Report and Includes two videos 2 and 5 minutes
http://opinion.latimes.com/opinionla/2011/07/fracking-the-conversation.html
The case for a ban on gas fracking
Foodandwaterwatch.org June 15th 2011 4 page pdf.
http://www.foodandwaterwatch.org/factsheet/the-case-for-a-ban-on-gas-fracking/
Geoff’s Comment – A 5 page article on food availability and the possible reverse of the Green revolution of agriculture.
A Warming Planet Struggles to Feed Itself
New York times June 5 2011
Geoff’s comment – Something lighter but important Dr. Hans Rosling is a world renowned public health practitioner who has a skill in presenting clear and sensible logic in a straight forward way.
Most enjoyable TED Talk Video 9 minutes
Hans Rosling and the magic washing machine
What was the greatest invention of the industrial revolution? Hans Rosling makes the case for the washing machine. With newly designed graphics from Gapminder, Rosling shows us the magic that pops up when economic growth and electricity turn a boring wash day into an intellectual day of reading
Geoff’s Comment – Sometimes some things are best left alone. From Germany’s Speigel online
Greens Warn against Dangerous Dildos
Spiegel online July 1 2011
Germany’s Green Party is worried about the health risks of sex toys. Dildos and vibrators contain dangerously high levels of phthalates and other plasticizers, which can cause infertility and hormone imbalances, they claim. Now the party wants the government to take action to protect the 20 percent of Germans who use sex toys.
http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,771863,00.html#ref=nlint
Geoff’s comment – Just because the space is there this tickled my fancy
Supreme Court sees video games as art
http://edition.cnn.com/2011/TECH/gaming.gadgets/06/27/supreme.court.video.game.art/index.html?hpt=te_t1
