Council votes again to dump public EV fast charging station - then changes its mind
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Corrected: A Queensland council voted - again - to end eight years of work to install a public EV charger. Then changed its mind.

🤣 Literally bumpkins

  • UnbrokenTaco@lemm.eeEnglish
    9·
    5 days 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

    • Fallstar@mander.xyzOPEnglish
      4·
      5 days 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.

      • UnbrokenTaco@lemm.eeEnglish
        5·
        5 days 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.

        So my read of it is:

        1. Cancel project
        2. Try to undo cancellation but fail
        3. Try and succeed to undo cancellation

        But I’m not that confident in my comprehension of it

  • sqgl@beehaw.orgEnglish
    10·
    6 days ago

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

    He may not have shares in oil or even received much of a bribe. Just rabidly ideologically driven.

    I don’t understand the useful-idiots who don’t even want renewables to succeed. I understand questioning of viability (we need to guard against green-washing) but they get angry whenever there is news of progress with renewables.

    • jonne@infosec.pubEnglish
      5·
      5 days 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.

    • dumblederp@aussie.zoneEnglish
      8·
      6 days ago

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

      • sqgl@beehaw.orgEnglish
        71·
        6 days ago

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