0tterbot wrote:
"Jonno" wrote in message
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on a positive note, many people are waking up to better ways to do things
here, and it's a learning process that i believe is almost at critical
mass, but essentially are hindered by a few things (see jonno's post) but
mainly our godforsaken dickhead gobshite ****knuckle federal govt, who
have now decided it's a top idea to drain wetlands so that people who
already waste water can waste even more of it. i could just scream (in
fact, sometimes i do!)
kylie




Aboslutely That came out wrong. Am I getting into fruedian slips?


maybe even freudian ones! (that pink looks noice on you).


Better than womens underwear I suppose.


take that back!! _i_ wear women's underwear & there's nothing wrong with me,
by jingo!!!!!!111


I hope I made sense on that last post.


to me, many of your posts don't always make sense g but it was orright, i
got it.

and quite frankly, i couldn't care less if people come across like commie
pinkos anyway. which isn't to say that you did. the mainstream is
extraordinarily broad.
kylie


Errr I know what I mean to write, but dont always write it rite.
Im sure womens underwear has its place....but its o so tiny.
That the trouble with email. You can make mistakes rooly fast.

Having spent a little time in the mining industry, I got to keep my eyes
out for the problems they have and their concern isnt for the ecology,
but for the dollars involved, and keeping to the schedules. They have
ships to load and times to catch. When people started seeing holes left
and habitats destroyed, we got a little better care locally, but look
what theyre doing in less civilised countries like Papua and Indonesian
Papua. Mud volcanoes and poisoned rivers etc.
They use Australian mining names overseas. But theyre really mainly
owned by American Corporations with us copping the brunt of bad
publicity, which doesnt do our political image any good in Indonesia.

An example was, we had this 60 ton truck which did a seal in the
hydraulics and was loosing some $1000 dollars (44 gallons) worth of
fluid a day, so we ordered 10 ($10,000) drums of the stuff so we could
keep pumping explosive so the mine could operate. At $20,000 a shot
twice a day we lost no time or income apart for the fuid and called in
repairs, which fixed the problem in a week and we sprayed this fluid all
over the place.
The dams where the tailings were stored was near to overflowing.
This was 30 or so years ago. Its still much the same and probably worse
in the west coast of Tasmania. We werent the only ones having these
sorts of problems I bet.