Council votes again to dump public EV fast charging station after TV news report

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• peaceful_world_view@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  What a stupid own goal. smh

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• maniacalmanicmania@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I move a motion to rename Capricorn Coast to Cooker Coast.

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• UnbrokenTaco@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  The article and title have been updated.

  Council votes again to dump public EV fast charging station – then changes its mind

  I think it’s saying that they’ll go ahead with the chargers now. In having trouble parsing the edits to be honest

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  • Fallstar@mander.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    All I could see was this

    This article has been updated to correct an error that the Livingstone shire council refused to rescind the decision to pause all EV charger installations on the Capricorn coast.

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    • Zagorath@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Yesterday’s ABC article is a bit clearer that the latest news is the charger is going ahead.

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    • UnbrokenTaco@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Yeah, it’s really confusingly worded

      Last week the Livingstone Shire council voted to cancel a deal to install the Capricorn Coast’s first EV charger, and a followup meeting held on Thursday to reverse the decision initially failed to win over the required number of four councillors.

      But a surprise second motion from the mayor reversing last week’s decision while also asking state and national local government associations to investigate renewables, got up.

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• sqgl@beehaw.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  mayor Adam Belot was basing his about-face on the heavily-debunked Channel 7 News report on nickel manufacturing in Indonesia,

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  • dumblederp@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    But he probably does have shares in oil or received a bribe tho. Better to seem like an idiot than corrupt.

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    • sqgl@beehaw.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Am always surprised by how little it costs to bribe Australian politicians.

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  • jonne@infosec.pub ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Nah, it’s just the propaganda by the oil companies working. You’ll also see people suddenly bringing up brake dust and tire microplastics in relation to electric cars (even though ICE cars have the exact same issues).

    Not saying those aren’t real problems that should be solved, but they’re usually just brought up to stop renewable projects from going ahead.

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