Consensus on renewables
THERE’S been a lot of argy bargy around solar and renewable energy in Canberra but you might be surprised to read that when it comes to renewables, Australians overwhelmingly agree.
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In fact, more than 75 per cent of Australians support an increase to the Renewable Energy Target - the scheme that has helped millions of Australians go solar and take control of their power bills.
There is little wonder why 1.3 million Australians have made the smart choice and switched to solar power. A recent study by the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems has found WHEN that solar power will be the cheapest form of energy for Australia within a decade.
Most of those households are in lower and middle income suburbs, areas that are most vulnerable to power price rises. That’s a fact, plain and simple.
The odds overwhelmingly stack up in favour of keeping the Renewable Energy Target (RET). The target works to lower the cost of electricity bills for all Australians, it will create 20,000 jobs by 2020 and it helps create clean energy to boot.
If the Federal government really wants to help lower the cost of living burden for Australian families, it would halt its attacks on solar and renewables policy and see to it that all Australians could get access to solar power.
Claire O’Rourke
Solar Citizens, national director
My green lifesaver
THEY say that males die from starvation when we reach a body mass index of 13. For me, that would be at about 46kg.
At the rate I was losing weight, that would have occurred in 65 days after my first presentation for pancreatic cancer - or March 25.
Without cannabis, the nausea, pain and gagging prevents me eating. Drugs like Ondasetron don’t work anywhere near as well and leave me looking for pain relief and antispasmodics as well as costing $45 a day.
I am taking about 1.5 grams a day of high grade cannabis oil.
I have been doing this since the moment of my first suspicious test – which returned a result of suspected metastasis to the liver (stage 4).
Pancreatic cancer is simply the worst, nastiest cancer you can get and stage 4 has a life expectancy of about six weeks.
Just 5.2 per cent of Australians diagnosed with any form of PC will survive five years.
The marijuana seems to fix the inflammation and pancreatitis, while it is necessary for pain and is said to cause cancer cell apoptosis. This is supported by my cancer count which is currently zero. This greatly puzzles my clinicians as I have massive pancreas damage but no active cancer to blame for it. As soon as I reduce the oil, I lose weight and get sick.
Cannabis oil is literally keeping me alive. My surgeons remain surprised with how well I am doing and all say the same thing ”we can’t tell you to do that but keep doing what you are doing, don’t stop”.
Given that my daily use is now higher than the total 1g allowed (of CBD only) proposed by the NSW legislation, the discussion about legislation is pointless for me. I can and will not modify my regime for any law.
The proposed law would still see me charged for using THC and for having more than 1g in my possession, which would be seen as trafficking.
I will not be sourcing oil twice a day to make legislators happy, it is not workable.
So it would appear law reform is off to a pointlessly slow start.
The only real issues of relevance are: access, quality, cost and efficacy.
None of these are currently, adequately addressed.