Comments on: Woodburner hearings underway http://www.baybuzz.co.nz/archives/1715 What's new, funny, perplexing in Hawke's Bay Sat, 31 Jul 2010 00:41:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: morton osborne http://www.baybuzz.co.nz/archives/1715/comment-page-1#comment-18788 morton osborne Fri, 06 Nov 2009 21:50:46 +0000 http://www.baybuzz.co.nz/archives/1715#comment-18788 Correction: It appears the Regional Council does now have a tidy, solar powered unit that will serve this function ... and it is where one would expect it to be to measure sewer gas, alongside the sewage treatment plant ... for you wouldn't really expect orchardists to be generating sewer gas to protect fruit ... would you? Correction: It appears the Regional Council does now have a tidy, solar powered unit that will serve this function … and it is where one would expect it to be to measure sewer gas, alongside the sewage treatment plant … for you wouldn’t really expect orchardists to be generating sewer gas to protect fruit … would you?

]]> By: morton osborne http://www.baybuzz.co.nz/archives/1715/comment-page-1#comment-18710 morton osborne Tue, 03 Nov 2009 05:15:28 +0000 http://www.baybuzz.co.nz/archives/1715#comment-18710 The impact of PM10's in Hawkes Bay is minimal in comparison with the aerosols dissipated by the 'organic orchardists.' These are associated with respiratory problems, cardiac problems, cancers plus numerous other reactions that add up to the Bay having the worst health figures of any region in New Zealand ... and all this over the last ten years. Our Regional Council appears contrivedly oblivious to such - let alone PM10's - they cannot even properly maintain their one monitor in Hastings that measures such, and their data analysis could only be described as abysmal (Government prescribed, minimalist). This also applies to their ability to critique contracted analyses (NIWA) which, it would seem are only interested in furthering 'principal components analyses' based models. Of interest, it appears that if you want to obtain data from either the council or NIWA, to redo their analyses or look at further analysis that there are costs involved. Data is not freely available to those who have essentially funded such extravagance in the first instance. The Regional Council does not and cannot measure aerosols, they simply do not have the apparatus to do so, nor the interest. Any 'clean air' claims made by them are simply intuitive artifice, somewhat akin to the rather naive beliefs expressed by mayor Yule that he has somehow 'gotten on top of the gang notion that the returns from benefits, and bless his heart, employment, are somewhat better than the returns from criminal activity (burglary and P manufacture). Really, from where do these folk emanate? The impact of PM10’s in Hawkes Bay is minimal in comparison with the aerosols dissipated by the ‘organic orchardists.’
These are associated with respiratory problems, cardiac problems, cancers plus numerous other reactions that add up to the Bay having the worst health figures of any region in New Zealand … and all this over the last ten years.
Our Regional Council appears contrivedly oblivious to such – let alone PM10’s – they cannot even properly maintain their one monitor in Hastings that measures such, and their data analysis could only be described as abysmal (Government prescribed, minimalist). This also applies to their ability to critique contracted analyses (NIWA) which, it would seem are only interested in furthering ‘principal components analyses’ based models.

Of interest, it appears that if you want to obtain data from either the council or NIWA, to redo their analyses or look at further analysis that there are costs involved.
Data is not freely available to those who have essentially funded such extravagance in the first instance.

The Regional Council does not and cannot measure aerosols, they simply do not have the apparatus to do so, nor the interest.
Any ‘clean air’ claims made by them are simply intuitive artifice, somewhat akin to the rather naive beliefs expressed by mayor Yule that he has somehow ‘gotten on top of the gang notion that the returns from benefits, and bless his heart, employment, are somewhat better than the returns from criminal activity (burglary and P manufacture).
Really, from where do these folk emanate?

]]> By: Dave Head http://www.baybuzz.co.nz/archives/1715/comment-page-1#comment-18702 Dave Head Mon, 02 Nov 2009 18:10:40 +0000 http://www.baybuzz.co.nz/archives/1715#comment-18702 I often wonder about the smoke when I drive from Napier to Hastings or Havelock North and see huge fires, producing lots of dirty smoke, coming from orchards etc. They are obviously burning 'damp' wood etc. I often wonder about the smoke when I drive from Napier to Hastings or Havelock North and see huge fires, producing lots of dirty smoke, coming from orchards etc. They are obviously burning ‘damp’ wood etc.

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