On Thursday 27 November, Ranger Ged (check out his clothing - never let a man go off shopping by himself) and I were invited to the South Australian Parliament House and met with the Hon Jay Weatherill, Environment Minister of South Australia and Hon Jack Snelling, Speaker Parliament of South Australia.
We spent time explaining to the Minister and Speaker of our adventure. We pointed out that using waste cooking oil to power our vehicle significantly reduces our emissions, particularly our carbon footprint. The use of WVO is actually recycling what is generally a waste product and as we have shown, any one could do it, especially Australians or overseas tourists.
The Minister was able to tell us that South Australia ("SA") has the best record of recycling water in Australia, was the first state of Australia to legislate permissible carbon emission levels and has reduced its carbon emissions by 7% in the last 5 year reporting period. Well done SA in leading Australia in many ways to significantly reducing our carbon footprint, keep up the good work!
We would like to express our gratitude to the Minister and the Speaker for giving us their time.
The photo is of, from left to right: Hon Jack Snelling, Rachel, Gerard the Ranger and the Hon Jay Weatherill.
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3 comments:
"Clothing doeth not make the man."
However "Birds of a feather flock together" so I feel that your reputations as environmentally aware people is somewhat sullied by this photograph.
niiiiice, spreading the word. Ged, you look like you should be doing the crocodile show at the zoo in 10 minutes!
Hope you are both well
A&C xx
Enjoying reading about your adventure guys, even got the guys in the office checking your blogs!
See you soon.
Liza xx
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