Alright, you win. I once saw a Eurasian Magpie at Hay Point, in about 2000. It was easy to identify. “Where is Hay Point?” I hear some of you ask. Fair enough. Hay Point is near Macky Qld. It is a port facility for exporting coal to China where it is converted into atmospheric carbon. Incidentally (not so much to do with birds), in 2009 tender documents were released for environmental assessment of a proposal to double the size of the port and increase export of coal to China by (if I recall correctly) some hundreds of millions or billions of tonnes per annum – well, lots anyway. The tender documents stated that Hay Point was and would remain a carbon-neutral port. Therefore all environmental studies conducted for the EIS would have to be carbon neutral – all airfares, vehicles, boats, machinery and packed lunches would need to be offset by certified carbon offset schemes and the documents to prove it must be lodged for auditing. I realised immediately that I had glimpsed a creature far more perverse and dangerous than the climate change sceptic, but I am still struggling to identify it. Perhaps it is the climate change charlatan, or the carbon racketeer, or maybe it is just a new subspecies of the more common climate change septic. Something ugly from the Family of big business, for sure.
Returning to birds, the Bimblebox Nature reserve will quite likely be shipped off shore through Hay Point, leaving the local Black-throated Finches and other wildlife with a short 100 year wait (+ or -) until their biodiversity offset is ready for them to inhabit.
David James, Sydney burunglaut07@yahoo.com ==============================
________________________________ From: John Harris
There you all go, that “B” word appears again, seems it is all linked………….. Now isn’t that the point of all this!!
Thank you Jeremy!!!
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