I casually commented a few weeks back that I had a gut feeling that we may have had a second and possibly more switched on daily rag looming on the horizon, in the form of the Independent as I had been told about them advertising for an editor.
This was more or less confirmed when the stop gap Editor/manager was very critical of the “Daily Bible” as he tongue in cheek referred to the Comical in this article and his references to daily papers etc in the advert he ran in the same edition again to me was a veiled confirmation of this theory……BUT, what he did next was bizzare to say the least.
He launched into a rant about “anonymous blogs” not having credibility, being short on facts and telling mistruths and false statements and that they were basically gutless, mainly because they didn’t allow anybody who had been “defamed” or spoken about in them to offer a response; HELLO!!!! Scotty baby, what do you think I’m doing right now? Responding to a statement in this blog, something you or anyone else can do quite simply.
It was almost as though he had called Comical Nance and had her dictate the wording; it had old Nance painted all over it, so if we get a second daily, I really do hope they get an editor with better investigative skills than those displayed by the current team doing the once a weeker, or they’ll be trying to outdo themselves at misinformation and untruths all in the name of “honest” journalism.

Got a comment Scott? Believe it or not you have the opportunity unlike papers including your own who don’t always reproduce comments from members of the public if they don’t suit their agenda or ideas.
Talk about the kettle calling the frying pan black; what an outstanding example.

(The Edition concerned I think was the April 11th. I forwarded it on to someone in Maryborough as I couldn’t believe what I was reading.)

Strewthisback can confirm it was the April 11 edition and we too found it amusing. We’ve even given readers a direct email address you can contact us on at the top of the page. Doesn’t get any easier and if Scott or Nancy or anyone else for that matter wants to reply we’d be more than happy to print their response in full.

Come on, fellas, surely with the shortage of funds for every aspect of our society our governments would not be allowing foreign interest to take advantage of our resources in such a manner.

I would suggest the Cessna is photographing the area as part of the proposed ratepayer funded tourism campaign.

No doubt it will benefit us all!

Ask the Chronicle for an spot of investigative journalism if you have any doubts.

Well i volunteer to do the Cost Benefit Analysis for them , and the Anti Traveston Groups can collectively do the EIS , and we will do it very, very , very carefully , because we would need to determine just what value the people who may lose their properties would like as compensation , and i have the expertise to value the biodiversity loss from a project of this scale , which may see the COSTS outwiegh the BENEFITS , as is the case with Traveston .

Please go to my blog and read the submissions , very , very carefully, and you may learn something about CBA and the ethical distribution of regional resources.

The test bore holes for coal are located on the flight path , maybe they are mapping for koalas and drop bears? What would i know , i am just a humble GIS consultant , living on top of the Tiaro Coal Measures who the Malaysians want to dig up , thats all.

GHG DEVELOPMENT FOR THE FRASER COAST

I was woken this morning to the sound of a tree top level aircraft ,carrying out radio geology surveys of the Tiaro Coal Measures under the Tiaro region .

Here are the people who may be responsible for increasing the regions contributions to GHG and possibly decreasing the regions water supply as a bonus :
http://www.tiarocoal.com.au/directors.htm

Perhaps we may get a coal fired water park yet?

It will be very interesting to see what debate is forthcoming from the PEAK OIL wing of the Qld government , as to climate change and global warming ramifications for the region, given that we have nominated the region for Man And Biosphere under the UN ?

It will also be very interesting to ponder where the water supply might come from for this potential project, given its close proximity to Traveston crossing?

Strewthisback replies: Roger, we suspect the aircraft you saw was the Boeing operated drone that is conducting aerial photography across the state. This progam is just part of regular updating of the nation’s mapping data.

We was only made aware of Tiaro Coal yesterday and agree we need to be careful about any industry that might use excessive amounts of water or indeed contribute to GHG. However, any new industry that has the potential to create new jobs and bring investment dollars into the region needs to be carefully considered.

Jason Whitmen