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Speaker 1 (00:00):
My heart space of golf coming up a special visitor
coming to Port Lincoln. Hi. I'm Jackie Loom with iHeart
Spencer Golf, your weekly local news wrap for the Spencer,
Golf and surrounds. But first, Wyler's future is looking a
little brighter this week with GfG Alliance announcing a one
hundred and fifty million dollar loan to support it still
(00:20):
works and mining operations. The money will help pay suppliers
and push forward repairs to the blast furnace, which has
been offline since August. The announcement is a key step
in gfg's back to black plan, but challenges remain, with
major suppliers recently suspending services over unpaid debts. Meanwhile, there's
talk of an exciting new green energy project on the horizon,
(00:42):
with Whyalla flagged as a potential site for a cutting
edge synthetic fuel plant. Our reporter Sam Talbot spoke to
member for Giles Eddie Hughes, who says the GfG funding
is a step in the right direction as.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
People were a number of major contractors so stop deliberate
workout pending agreement over a of a payment schedules, so
this should help with that and I also understand that
some of the money might be used to address one
or two or the other vulnerabilities that the steel works,
So that would be positive at the end of the
(01:16):
day through a lot of people. One hundred and fifty
million sounds like a lot, but it's not a huge abanimally,
but it might get us a step forward. It might
be arrangements could well be entered into get the major
contractors back operating again. And I guess at this stage
the impact has really been on the mine operations in
(01:38):
Wyler and we're still addressing the blast furnace issue at
the steel works, but the contractors such as their Golden
and their Horizon and others pulling out Ha's had a
big impact on the mining in the Middle Back Air
Ranges and the transport of war once the mining occurs.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
Taking a bigger look at Whyella and the plans of
expansion for the future, it's pretty dependent on GfG. Is
that fair to say?
Speaker 2 (02:07):
Well, it depends what you're talking about. Obviously, the transformation
of the steel works, and it's a necessary transformation because
we're talking about an older steel works at Wyala. That
transformation to direct reduction nine and making as the replacement
for a blast furnace and they then an electric cart furnace.
(02:31):
So there are things that do need to happen and
that requires a lot of investment, and clearly in our
community and elsewhere, there's a lot of skepticism about whether
GfG can deliver that transformation. But there's a number of
other things happening that should be seen in some respects
independent of the steel works. So the government, the state
(02:54):
government are fully committed to the hydrogen power plant because
essentially that will offer it does the peaking station on
the grid clearly wireers a site for hydrogen production that
the steel industry being close by would be a long
term positive. But in the immediate sense, the hydrogen power
(03:18):
plant will go ahead irrespect of what's going on at
the steel works at the moment. One of the other
positive things back in I think it was June we
launched the State government launched the global expression of interest
for South Australia when it comes to Green Island Steel
and fifty two companies are put in an expression of
(03:39):
interest and some of these companies are very big air
players in the international steel industry, big steel producers, and
a bunch of other really interested in their companies. So
there is a real interest in Wyler and the and
the state, and it should never be forgotten that there's
literally billion are tons of magnetype a wiless a doorstep
(04:04):
and the ore here is particularly suited to using a
direct iron production, which will initially be dependent upon a
natural gas, but the longer term transition would be to
hydrogen once that's produced commercially at scale, and that's going
to happen other night. I'd say that is something that
is a longer term, but we're well positioned as a
(04:26):
state to move in that direction.
Speaker 3 (04:28):
And just quickly. The final big bit of use for
Wyela is the zero fuel plant. There might be another
way to diversify industry in Whyala.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
Well, certainly we need all the diversity we can get,
and that has always been wireless story. We're too dependent
upon on one industry, albeit it's been a good industry
for a while, but too dependent and any any other
company looking to establish and Wiler will get We'll get
their significance, the support and be more than welcome. One
(05:00):
of those people that I've been around for a long time,
I count my chickens when they hatch. And someone said
to me the other day. Well, not just hatch or
wandering around, but laying eggs themselves as well. So a
lot of my community there's always a degree if you
call it positive skepticism. We welcome any other developments, but
(05:20):
we know that there's a long process involved in getting
any projects up off the ground. You have to work
towards getting a financial closure.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
Remember for Giles, Eddie Hughes, there lyheart.
Speaker 4 (05:34):
Spencer, golf Lyheart Spencer Golf.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
SA Water has announced a new plan targeting the Air
Peninsula's water security. The new scheme will aim to protect
the region's drinking water supplies and help customers save Our
reporter Jay Moss has more.
Speaker 4 (05:52):
Thanks Jack Yeah. Caught up with SA Waters David kom
early this week chatting about a possible rebate for Air
Peninsula residents. Would be for water appliances and it comes
under a new scheme which is set to conserve water
in the region. Say what does David Coombe explain some
of the benefits of the plan.
Speaker 5 (06:09):
Over the last six months or so, we've been revising
our water security plan for the Air Peninsula. The water
Security Plan provides guid and gives us a structured approach,
I guess for how we respond to different levels of
water security on the air Peninsula right from you know
that we've got usual levels of water available right through
too extreme water shortages. It helps us to be able
(06:31):
to step through in four levels what our joined up
community response will be to those different levels of water security.
Speaker 4 (06:39):
He explains what situation we're currently in when it comes
to water supply.
Speaker 5 (06:43):
So we're currently at level two within our Water Security
Response Plan. So what that means that we've got enough
water available to cover existing demand for our SA water customers,
that we don't have enough water available to be able
to supply new industrial or commercial quest that require significant
volumes of water.
Speaker 4 (07:03):
He is reminding residents the situation's not at a critical stage.
Speaker 5 (07:07):
Well, okay for the moment. If we start to see
that our levels of available water are under what we
need to be able to supply to our customers, and
that's a trigger for us to look to go to
the next stage of our Water Security Response Plan and
level level three, which effectively means that we need to
(07:28):
look to introduce ways in which we might be able
to save water to be able to ensure that we
can meet demand.
Speaker 4 (07:36):
The plan comes following extensive consultation with a range of
key stakeholders from right across the Air Peninsula.
Speaker 5 (07:42):
Action plans really important because one it makes sure that
we've got a plan that is specific for the Air Peninsula.
So over the last six months we've worked really closely
with key stakeholders, so all ten councils, Primary produces, grain producers,
livestock SA Regional Development Australia looking at our response plan
(08:03):
to make sure that it's fit for purpose and the
levels within it enable us to be in the best
position should we need to enact them.
Speaker 4 (08:11):
Mister Kombe explains where locals can go if they're looking
for more information.
Speaker 5 (08:15):
We've got a lot of information on our SA water website,
so www dot water, dot com dot au. There's a
water use calculator on there which is really useful for
people to get on see where they're using water within
their homes. It provides a lot of information about how
you can reduce water both inside and outside of your home,
(08:36):
so it's really handy when you're trying to work out
what rebates might be best suited to your particular home.
Speaker 4 (08:42):
If you still have any questions around the water usage scheme,
and the possible rebate SA Water are key to help out.
Speaker 5 (08:48):
We've got a dedicated free call line, so if customers
want to just call up and get some more information
about rebates or about the water security Response plan, they
can give us a call on one eight hundred and
one three zero for it too.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
Thanks for that one, Jie and Friends of Ospray recently
issued an invitation to renowned conservationist Roy Dennis to visit
Port Lincoln while he's in Australia and he's accepted. Twenty
years ago, Roy was awarded a Golden Eagle as the
person who had done the most for nature conservation in
the UK in the last one hundred years, and now
his eagle eye is set to be cast over our
(09:22):
local projects, culminating in a dinner on December one. I
spoke to Franz Solly, secretary of the Friends of Osprey,
earlier this week.
Speaker 6 (09:30):
We are super excited, so we knew we heard that
Roy was coming to Sydney to visit family over Christmas
and so we'll no harm asking. So we've got in
touch and said, look, would you like to come to
South Australia and even better, would you like to come
to Port Lincoln and most excitingly fast he said yes.
(09:52):
So Roy is really, I guess the godfather of conservation,
particularly with osprey but also with other species of birds
and mammals in the UK. So it's super exciting that
he's agreed to come and that he's agreed to talk
at the dinner that we're having.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
Yeah, definitely. So he's been your first point of contact
for many years now with the satellite tracker as well,
back in twenty twenty. But has he had any assistance
in the nests or the nesting towers and all.
Speaker 3 (10:24):
Of that as well.
Speaker 6 (10:25):
Yes, so pretty much all of the strategies that we've
employed in South Australia to try and bring ospre back
we've learnt from Roy and the people that he's worked
with in the UK. In the UK, the ospreys were
extinct in parts and it's through Roy's foundation and his
(10:45):
work that they are now off the endangered list. So
it's a massive success story putting in artificial nest platforms,
color banding and satellite tracking of birds all things that
have been pioneered by Roy and he's been so generous
with his time in helping us. So when we first
(11:06):
did the satellite tracking. He got on a zoom meeting
with us and went through his step by step how
to go about doing the satellite tracking, and then Ian Falkenberg,
who's accredited tracker, practiced on his pet bantam. So yes,
roy will be driving from Adelaide to Port Lincoln, so
(11:28):
we'll be calling in it places along the way on
your peninsula, Arnoba, Port neil Tumby Bay down to Lincoln
and he'll actually be observing when we put the satellite
trackers on the birds on the Port Lincoln barge and
also coming down to Fissile Island when we do the
work there.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
Yeah, and he's helped with other species as well over
in the UK. Will there be anything else that people
might be trying to pick his brain while he's in
Lincoln other than the ostras.
Speaker 6 (11:57):
Well, I think it applies to everything. It's sadly in
the electorate of Gray we have the second worst record
for extinctions and threatened species, so there is a lot
of work that we need to be doing to stop it,
to be able to protect the last remaining habitat and
(12:20):
species that we have. And yeah, we really think that
we can learn from the experiences that Royce had in
how to go about doing that, and sometimes it really
does mean thinking outside the square, like taking one chick
from the nest and relocating them, which is.
Speaker 3 (12:37):
What he did.
Speaker 6 (12:39):
And with some of our birds species that it's that
kind of thing maybe, you know, captive breeding programs and
reintroductions that sadly, perhaps we're getting to that point.
Speaker 1 (12:51):
Yeah, definitely it is sad, but it is great news
that they are breeding and there's a bit more going
on in the space and as far as the event
goes and chat with Raw. Tickets are available now and
what are the days?
Speaker 6 (13:02):
So the event is Sunday night, it's at the Port
Link and Yacht Club. Tickets are available. There's a link
on the Friends of Osprey Facebook page and on the
port Link and Osprey page to be able to get tickets.
It's one hundred dollars ahead. Some of that money, quite
a bit of that money goes back to the conservation
(13:24):
project here in South Australia. Three course meal catered by
Damien Mergin and plus the chat from Roy and also
Ian Falkenberg about what's going on here in South Australia.
Not often we get people of this caliber, you know,
we complain a lot about Oh you know we're so
isolated and we don't get to hear the really good speakers. Well,
(13:46):
here's the opportunity, and.
Speaker 1 (13:48):
That's your weekly news wrap across the Spencer, Golf and surrounds.
Don't forget you can hear iHeart Spencer Golf on the
iHeart app or wherever you get your podcasts. I'm Jackie Limb.
Join us again next week for more local, trusted and
free news.
Speaker 4 (14:02):
iHeart Spencer Golf.
My heart space of golf coming up a special visitor
coming to Port Lincoln. Hi. I'm Jackie Loom with iHeart
Spencer Golf, your weekly local news wrap for the Spencer,
Golf and surrounds. But first, Wyler's future is looking a
little brighter this week with GfG Alliance announcing a one
hundred and fifty million dollar loan to support it still
(00:20):
works and mining operations. The money will help pay suppliers
and push forward repairs to the blast furnace, which has
been offline since August. The announcement is a key step
in gfg's back to black plan, but challenges remain, with
major suppliers recently suspending services over unpaid debts. Meanwhile, there's
talk of an exciting new green energy project on the horizon,
(00:42):
with Whyalla flagged as a potential site for a cutting
edge synthetic fuel plant. Our reporter Sam Talbot spoke to
member for Giles Eddie Hughes, who says the GfG funding
is a step in the right direction as.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
People were a number of major contractors so stop deliberate
workout pending agreement over a of a payment schedules, so
this should help with that and I also understand that
some of the money might be used to address one
or two or the other vulnerabilities that the steel works,
So that would be positive at the end of the
(01:16):
day through a lot of people. One hundred and fifty
million sounds like a lot, but it's not a huge abanimally,
but it might get us a step forward. It might
be arrangements could well be entered into get the major
contractors back operating again. And I guess at this stage
the impact has really been on the mine operations in
(01:38):
Wyler and we're still addressing the blast furnace issue at
the steel works, but the contractors such as their Golden
and their Horizon and others pulling out Ha's had a
big impact on the mining in the Middle Back Air
Ranges and the transport of war once the mining occurs.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
Taking a bigger look at Whyella and the plans of
expansion for the future, it's pretty dependent on GfG. Is
that fair to say?
Speaker 2 (02:07):
Well, it depends what you're talking about. Obviously, the transformation
of the steel works, and it's a necessary transformation because
we're talking about an older steel works at Wyala. That
transformation to direct reduction nine and making as the replacement
for a blast furnace and they then an electric cart furnace.
(02:31):
So there are things that do need to happen and
that requires a lot of investment, and clearly in our
community and elsewhere, there's a lot of skepticism about whether
GfG can deliver that transformation. But there's a number of
other things happening that should be seen in some respects
independent of the steel works. So the government, the state
(02:54):
government are fully committed to the hydrogen power plant because
essentially that will offer it does the peaking station on
the grid clearly wireers a site for hydrogen production that
the steel industry being close by would be a long
term positive. But in the immediate sense, the hydrogen power
(03:18):
plant will go ahead irrespect of what's going on at
the steel works at the moment. One of the other
positive things back in I think it was June we
launched the State government launched the global expression of interest
for South Australia when it comes to Green Island Steel
and fifty two companies are put in an expression of
(03:39):
interest and some of these companies are very big air
players in the international steel industry, big steel producers, and
a bunch of other really interested in their companies. So
there is a real interest in Wyler and the and
the state, and it should never be forgotten that there's
literally billion are tons of magnetype a wiless a doorstep
(04:04):
and the ore here is particularly suited to using a
direct iron production, which will initially be dependent upon a
natural gas, but the longer term transition would be to
hydrogen once that's produced commercially at scale, and that's going
to happen other night. I'd say that is something that
is a longer term, but we're well positioned as a
(04:26):
state to move in that direction.
Speaker 3 (04:28):
And just quickly. The final big bit of use for
Wyela is the zero fuel plant. There might be another
way to diversify industry in Whyala.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
Well, certainly we need all the diversity we can get,
and that has always been wireless story. We're too dependent
upon on one industry, albeit it's been a good industry
for a while, but too dependent and any any other
company looking to establish and Wiler will get We'll get
their significance, the support and be more than welcome. One
(05:00):
of those people that I've been around for a long time,
I count my chickens when they hatch. And someone said
to me the other day. Well, not just hatch or
wandering around, but laying eggs themselves as well. So a
lot of my community there's always a degree if you
call it positive skepticism. We welcome any other developments, but
(05:20):
we know that there's a long process involved in getting
any projects up off the ground. You have to work
towards getting a financial closure.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
Remember for Giles, Eddie Hughes, there lyheart.
Speaker 4 (05:34):
Spencer, golf Lyheart Spencer Golf.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
SA Water has announced a new plan targeting the Air
Peninsula's water security. The new scheme will aim to protect
the region's drinking water supplies and help customers save Our
reporter Jay Moss has more.
Speaker 4 (05:52):
Thanks Jack Yeah. Caught up with SA Waters David kom
early this week chatting about a possible rebate for Air
Peninsula residents. Would be for water appliances and it comes
under a new scheme which is set to conserve water
in the region. Say what does David Coombe explain some
of the benefits of the plan.
Speaker 5 (06:09):
Over the last six months or so, we've been revising
our water security plan for the Air Peninsula. The water
Security Plan provides guid and gives us a structured approach,
I guess for how we respond to different levels of
water security on the air Peninsula right from you know
that we've got usual levels of water available right through
too extreme water shortages. It helps us to be able
(06:31):
to step through in four levels what our joined up
community response will be to those different levels of water security.
Speaker 4 (06:39):
He explains what situation we're currently in when it comes
to water supply.
Speaker 5 (06:43):
So we're currently at level two within our Water Security
Response Plan. So what that means that we've got enough
water available to cover existing demand for our SA water customers,
that we don't have enough water available to be able
to supply new industrial or commercial quest that require significant
volumes of water.
Speaker 4 (07:03):
He is reminding residents the situation's not at a critical stage.
Speaker 5 (07:07):
Well, okay for the moment. If we start to see
that our levels of available water are under what we
need to be able to supply to our customers, and
that's a trigger for us to look to go to
the next stage of our Water Security Response Plan and
level level three, which effectively means that we need to
(07:28):
look to introduce ways in which we might be able
to save water to be able to ensure that we
can meet demand.
Speaker 4 (07:36):
The plan comes following extensive consultation with a range of
key stakeholders from right across the Air Peninsula.
Speaker 5 (07:42):
Action plans really important because one it makes sure that
we've got a plan that is specific for the Air Peninsula.
So over the last six months we've worked really closely
with key stakeholders, so all ten councils, Primary produces, grain producers,
livestock SA Regional Development Australia looking at our response plan
(08:03):
to make sure that it's fit for purpose and the
levels within it enable us to be in the best
position should we need to enact them.
Speaker 4 (08:11):
Mister Kombe explains where locals can go if they're looking
for more information.
Speaker 5 (08:15):
We've got a lot of information on our SA water website,
so www dot water, dot com dot au. There's a
water use calculator on there which is really useful for
people to get on see where they're using water within
their homes. It provides a lot of information about how
you can reduce water both inside and outside of your home,
(08:36):
so it's really handy when you're trying to work out
what rebates might be best suited to your particular home.
Speaker 4 (08:42):
If you still have any questions around the water usage scheme,
and the possible rebate SA Water are key to help out.
Speaker 5 (08:48):
We've got a dedicated free call line, so if customers
want to just call up and get some more information
about rebates or about the water security Response plan, they
can give us a call on one eight hundred and
one three zero for it too.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
Thanks for that one, Jie and Friends of Ospray recently
issued an invitation to renowned conservationist Roy Dennis to visit
Port Lincoln while he's in Australia and he's accepted. Twenty
years ago, Roy was awarded a Golden Eagle as the
person who had done the most for nature conservation in
the UK in the last one hundred years, and now
his eagle eye is set to be cast over our
(09:22):
local projects, culminating in a dinner on December one. I
spoke to Franz Solly, secretary of the Friends of Osprey,
earlier this week.
Speaker 6 (09:30):
We are super excited, so we knew we heard that
Roy was coming to Sydney to visit family over Christmas
and so we'll no harm asking. So we've got in
touch and said, look, would you like to come to
South Australia and even better, would you like to come
to Port Lincoln and most excitingly fast he said yes.
(09:52):
So Roy is really, I guess the godfather of conservation,
particularly with osprey but also with other species of birds
and mammals in the UK. So it's super exciting that
he's agreed to come and that he's agreed to talk
at the dinner that we're having.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
Yeah, definitely. So he's been your first point of contact
for many years now with the satellite tracker as well,
back in twenty twenty. But has he had any assistance
in the nests or the nesting towers and all.
Speaker 3 (10:24):
Of that as well.
Speaker 6 (10:25):
Yes, so pretty much all of the strategies that we've
employed in South Australia to try and bring ospre back
we've learnt from Roy and the people that he's worked
with in the UK. In the UK, the ospreys were
extinct in parts and it's through Roy's foundation and his
(10:45):
work that they are now off the endangered list. So
it's a massive success story putting in artificial nest platforms,
color banding and satellite tracking of birds all things that
have been pioneered by Roy and he's been so generous
with his time in helping us. So when we first
(11:06):
did the satellite tracking. He got on a zoom meeting
with us and went through his step by step how
to go about doing the satellite tracking, and then Ian Falkenberg,
who's accredited tracker, practiced on his pet bantam. So yes,
roy will be driving from Adelaide to Port Lincoln, so
(11:28):
we'll be calling in it places along the way on
your peninsula, Arnoba, Port neil Tumby Bay down to Lincoln
and he'll actually be observing when we put the satellite
trackers on the birds on the Port Lincoln barge and
also coming down to Fissile Island when we do the
work there.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
Yeah, and he's helped with other species as well over
in the UK. Will there be anything else that people
might be trying to pick his brain while he's in
Lincoln other than the ostras.
Speaker 6 (11:57):
Well, I think it applies to everything. It's sadly in
the electorate of Gray we have the second worst record
for extinctions and threatened species, so there is a lot
of work that we need to be doing to stop it,
to be able to protect the last remaining habitat and
(12:20):
species that we have. And yeah, we really think that
we can learn from the experiences that Royce had in
how to go about doing that, and sometimes it really
does mean thinking outside the square, like taking one chick
from the nest and relocating them, which is.
Speaker 3 (12:37):
What he did.
Speaker 6 (12:39):
And with some of our birds species that it's that
kind of thing maybe, you know, captive breeding programs and
reintroductions that sadly, perhaps we're getting to that point.
Speaker 1 (12:51):
Yeah, definitely it is sad, but it is great news
that they are breeding and there's a bit more going
on in the space and as far as the event
goes and chat with Raw. Tickets are available now and
what are the days?
Speaker 6 (13:02):
So the event is Sunday night, it's at the Port
Link and Yacht Club. Tickets are available. There's a link
on the Friends of Osprey Facebook page and on the
port Link and Osprey page to be able to get tickets.
It's one hundred dollars ahead. Some of that money, quite
a bit of that money goes back to the conservation
(13:24):
project here in South Australia. Three course meal catered by
Damien Mergin and plus the chat from Roy and also
Ian Falkenberg about what's going on here in South Australia.
Not often we get people of this caliber, you know,
we complain a lot about Oh you know we're so
isolated and we don't get to hear the really good speakers. Well,
(13:46):
here's the opportunity, and.
Speaker 1 (13:48):
That's your weekly news wrap across the Spencer, Golf and surrounds.
Don't forget you can hear iHeart Spencer Golf on the
iHeart app or wherever you get your podcasts. I'm Jackie Limb.
Join us again next week for more local, trusted and
free news.
Speaker 4 (14:02):
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