River Gums Farm in Canberra, Australian Capital Territory | Local business
River Gums Farm
Locality: Canberra, Australian Capital Territory
Address: 875 Urila Road 2620 Canberra, ACT, Australia
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25.01.2022 John's article in today's Daily Telegraph. Very honest and frank account of what is taking place. -How dare you- This is all wrong, I shouldn’t have t...o write this. I should be back in my community on the other side of the mountains. Yet you all come to the regions for hope. You’ve stolen our dreams, our children’s future, with your empty words. People are suffering. People are dying. Entire regional communities are collapsing, and this could be the beginning of a mass extinction of regional NSW. And all you can talk about is climate change and fairy tales of rolling hills littered with wind turbines. How dare you. So many people across the globe, like Greta Thunberg, or those that live in the comfort of the eastern suburbs of Sydney, even my own colleague the environment minister, want to make the summer fires a platform about climate change. The reality is, ideology has set our regions up to fail. It’s the regions who every day have to deal with and live next to National Parks that are locked up, with fuel loads ready to explode, while tons of bitumen, concrete and towers line the suburbs of Sydney. It’s the regions that get littered with solar farms and wind turbines, but you refuse them on the coastline of Sydney. It’s the regions that take Sydney’s garbage every night because, god forbid, you won’t deal with your own rubbish including your environmentally damaging plastic. But we accept it. We do our bit. But you then want to lecture us about climate change, the environment, and how we should manage our land. You want to take industries like agriculture, forestry and mining away in your ideological pursuit to net zero emissions. You don’t allow us to clear our lands to be more productive, or reduce fuel loads to protect life, as seen with the catastrophic fires, which we now have to rebuild from. Today I say enough is enough. Stop using the regions as the biodiversity offset for Sydney, so that you can deal with your guilt. Climate change is real, we live with it every day. Longer, drier periods, followed by rains and floods. Emissions targets are essential in the long term but fuel reduction targets and land management are a must in the short term. Dealing with climate change isn’t the responsibility of just regional communities, so how dare you keep blaming us. It’s time to listen to those that live in the regions and please, stop lecturing us. John Barilaro is Deputy Premier of NSW and leader of the Nationals in NSW
18.01.2022 So the iconic Queanbeyan River seen here flowing has finally stopped flowing. The silence is deafening. The city folk are about to be impacted by the drought (unless there is significant rainfall). This river feeds Googong Dam and supplies Canberra/Queanbeyan water supply.
18.01.2022 Remember Tula, the penguin protector? After watching over the little penguin colony in Middle Island, VIC, for almost a decade, the maremma is calling it a day. Happy retirement, Tula!
15.01.2022 I’ve been around for a while, but never been this close to a lightening strike. Last Thursday night we had a storm with a welcome 24mm of rain but not so welcome was the boom crash opera. Janice & I saw the lightening together with the huge thunder at almost the same time then a huge bang and what looked similar to fireworks raining down over the house. Very scary stuff! We lost all power at this point. This was around 9:15pm. Our friendly essential energy guys arrived to res...tore power at 3:00am. But it wasn’t until daylight that we realised how close it was. About 100m from the house was Ground Zero. You can see in the first pic the track and crack with the white heat mark in the rock goes straight into the tree trunk. The tree exploded! There is debris over 100m. The rock on the grass was hurled 100m as well. The house had no damage (very lucky) but our rain water tank pump was fried. So no water until I installed a new pump on Friday arvo. I think we have some extra charge in our body after the incident ha ha! It was so bad even Arni came inside! Nature is a powerful force, one would not have been very safe around that tree out in the open. Phew! Close call. We live to fight another storm. See more
07.01.2022 The mighty Queanbeyan River at River Gums Farm has been reduced to pools. Bring on some significant rain events, we sure do need them!
06.01.2022 OK it must be Autumn!
03.01.2022 Christmas must be close, Dancer & Prancer paid me a visit the other day! Merry Christmas.
02.01.2022 It’s on tomorrow. Also presentations and display of the big photo competition. Not to be missed! 10am to 12pm BURRA Park.
01.01.2022 Spagnum Bogs often included in claims to be destroyed by grazing livestock and Brumbies have been totally destroyed in bushfires in KNP. Hundreds of acres of th...ese huge natural water filters . Developed over thousands of years these massive sponges have been destroyed twice within 17 years by pathetic scientific advice and misguided management . This is neither global warming or grazing livestock , this is bad management. See more
