Tuesday, March 31, 2009

Shire: Climate Change Spending


The funding allocated to each facility is indicated below:
• Actions spread across all sites: $104,000
• Centenary Pool: $74,000
• Yarra Centre: $155,000
• Shire Offices: $70,000
• Burrinja: $5,000
• Mooroolbark Community Centre: $10,000

These are the major expenses and should save OUR Shire 1,000's kWh/year in electricity 100's of GJ/year in gas and reduce 100's of tonnes of CO2 per year.

As I have said in previous posts this is a win - win situation.

I am still undecided if spending over $300,000 on planting trees is a good option in the short or long term. In my honest opinion the SYR has plenty of trees as can be seen when driving around or better still from Google Earth.

The recent fires will create an explosion in tree numbers as many of our native trees germinate after a fire.

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