It’s 2030 and you’re going on holiday

Your holiday starts where it always has: sprawled on your couch, with a half-eaten pizza balanced precariously on one knee.

Holidaying 2030 style. 

You have a precious three weeks off work coming up, a bad case of the travel bug and no idea where to go. It’s time for some inspiration.

You blink your right eye twice to call up the social media feed on the lenses of your smart glasses.

Read the ABC News story by Annika Blau - ‘It’s 2030 and you’re going on holiday.”

(A question about visual travel to a recent webinar considering tourism in a warming world was answered, but not with any convincing authority as the emphasis was more on why would people travel to see a Great Barrier Reef, and similar attractions, when they had lost their enchantment because of damage caused by climate change - Robert McLean)

Fracking inquiry: Origin Energy, anti-fracking pastoralist both describe NT report as ‘balanced’

Origin Energy's chief geologist has described the interim report by the Northern Territory's independent inquiry into fracking as balanced.

Origin chief geologist David Close said the interim
report was "balanced" and "independent".

The report, which was released last week, was also given similar approval by North Star Pastoral, a cattle company which is fervently against fracking.

The interim report provided a preliminary analysis of the risks and benefits of fracking in the NT and an outline of the work undertaken by the inquiry since it was established in 2016.

Origin Energy has a number of gas exploration permits in the Beetaloo Basin, south-east of Daly Waters, activity on which is currently on hold while the NT's moratorium on hydraulic fracturing is in place.

Read the ABC Rural News story - “Fracking inquiry: Origin Energy, anti-fracking pastoralist both describe NT report as ‘balanced’.”

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