warkolm

the deputy mayor of #dubbo is a cooker. previously he has questioned why council is putting flouride in town water, and now this brainfart

there was a fire at a local solar farm last week and here's his choice quotes from the local paper on the incident;

"You could see the smoke everywhere and you had traffic control cars diverting the traffic," he told ACM.

"The stench of it, it was awful. It smelt like burning plastic.

so as a firefighter, and someone that was out at fires on that same day, I want to point out a few things here that show why this is flat out bad faith community engagement

Dec 9 at 1:17amWeb
Show threadwarkolmDec 9
1 - yes fires do generate a lot of smoke! given the solar farm was back online that same day anything not natural would be a very small fraction of whatever is put out, it's likely to be predominately from the grass that was burnt
Show threadwarkolmDec 9
2 - yes smoke from a fire does smell! it's why we have breathing protecting and do everything we can to stay out of it. I would suggest that you driving through fire smoke with your windows down is likely to be a Bad Idea no matter how you want to slice it
Show threadwarkolmDec 9

3 - we close roads all the time mate. it's to protect us from the dickhead drivers that want to drive through these fireground full of fire, smoke and emergency responders trying to put the thing out and keep everyone safe

if there was traffic control that's actually fantastic! it means we can focus on putting the wet stuff on the hot stuff rather than dealing with said drivers putting us at further risk

Show threadwarkolmDec 9
4 - I guess we missed you at the bigger grass fire at beni? that had a number of tyre dumps, piles of old machinery and random junk that farmers tend to accumulate over time all on fire and putting out toxic fumes for days
Show threadwarkolmDec 9

I realise that the chances of mr deputy mayor seeing something on fediverse is pretty damn low, but I ain't gunna go on facebook

so I guess that makes you lot lucky? :p

Show threadwarkolmDec 12

lol, even crikey is talking shit about this turkey

https://www.crikey.com.au/2025/12/12/hate-renewables-love-critical-mineral-mines-nsw/

Hate renewables, but love the mines that feed them: The strange disconnect in the NSW Central West

A grass fire at one of Australia’s largest solar farms has laid bare the depth of anti-renewables feeling in sections of regional Australia. But it has also shone a light on a massive double standard.

Crikey
Show threadJulieDec 9
@warkolm Just what you need when you've been out there trying to save land and property, a dickhead spouting all their conspiracy nonsense. I'm just thankful we have people like you who will go and face fires, rather than just talking about what they'd do with a ball and big stick. 🙏
Show threadCycling StuDec 9
@warkolm Honestly, the brain failure of someone to understand that ... Actually most of what burns in a solar farm is actually just the grass growing underneath....
Show threadMatt HDec 9
@stufromoz @warkolm Not a brain failure when you're knowingly doing the whole bad faith thinf, which I'm going to assume Mr Deputy Mayor of Dubbo is.
Show threadwarkolmDec 9
@MattHatton @stufromoz I am not sure he was picked as deputy for his overwhelming intellect tbh
Show threadstibbonsDec 9
@MattHatton @stufromoz @warkolm The deputy mayor of Dubbo, and the entirety of the comments section of the local paper.
Show threadCharlieGDec 9
@MattHatton @stufromoz @warkolm Problem is you can’t tell any more. This shit starts as disinformation and conspiracy spread by people who know it’s bullshit but think they’ll benefit electorally, but a few electoral cycles down the track the dopes who believe the bullshit start getting elected.
Show threadwarkolmDec 9
@Charles @MattHatton @stufromoz yep, I reckon this is the latter
Show threadAlex von KitchenDec 9
@warkolm of course we should just use coal or gas instead, which have no problems with fires /s
Show threadwarkolmDec 9
@Dangerous_beans I guess maybe they can't burn anything else cause the fuel is all that burns?
Show threadProgrammer 832-529 🍅Dec 9
@warkolm we had someone having a whinge about the batteries. To me they have either done their preparation/maintenance/APZ right or they haven't. If somehow the fire gets past the cleared earth, gravel and metal enclosure then nothing on the truck is going to change anything, so move on.