jiklian government "needs to urgently disclose to the community how it intends to respond" to the submissions and reassure the public "there is no risk to the supply of drinking water".
"Labor continues to believe that no new mining approvals should be given in the drinking water catchment, pending the important work being undertaken by the chief scientist," he said.
The miners defended their operations.
"We take our environmental responsibilities seriously and work with the relevant government authorities to manage and report our compliance activities, including environmental performance," a South32 spokesman said.
A Peabody spokeswoman said: “Our Metropolitan mine is a key pillar of the local economy having operated in the region for 130 years.
"The company has a strong relationship with the community of Helensburgh and the Illawarra region, providing over 400 local jobs and injecting over $90 million in wages and business into the local economy."
'Irrational' approvals
Peter Turner, mining projects science officer for the National Parks Association, said: “We’re approaching the third decade of the 21st century, yet it’s still not possible to reliably estimate how much water is being lost as a consequence of more than 100 years of mining Sydney’s catchment.
"With water storages in decline, climate change advancing and a longstanding lack of adequate monitoring, knowledge, quantitative modelling and understanding, it would be irrational and irresponsible to continue to approve coal mining in the Special Areas," Dr Turner said.
He said there should be no more mining in the Special Areas "until the cumulative impacts and consequences of mining to date can be reliably assessed...and predictive estimates of the compounding effects of new mining proposals can be made with a high degree of scientific confidence”.
Carmel Flint, national coordinator with Lock the Gate Alliance, said "it would be a reckless act to allow any further mining as dam water levels are dropping due to drought".
Cate Faehrmann, a spokeswoman for the Greens, said WaterNSW "could ban mining in our water catchments they would".
“Sydney’s water catchment is the only publicly owned water catchment in the world with longwall mining allowed under it," she said. "It’s criminal."
“Just last year the government approved yet more longwall coal mining in Sydney’s water catchment ignoring advice it was too risky. Security of Sydney’s drinking water must be put ahead of mining interests," Ms Faehrmann said.There are a lot of buzzwords flying around the world. Unfortunately, it happens far too often that meanings are lost or blurred beyond recognition. In a world that is currently developing, such as in the context of digitization, this is usually very natural. After all, it must first become clear which term means what.
As a party affected by the discussion, we as tapio want to create some clarity here. After all, only if we all have a common, equal understanding of the terms can we exchange meaningful and value-adding information. The whole discussion reminds very strongly of the beginnings of the "Cloud" debates, until finally someone clearly defined what PaaS, IaaS, and Co. are, much was discussed past each other. We want to explain the following terms in this article:
Here one can argue whether it is still worthwhile to use such additions because the large platform providers all have very comparable functions in the portfolio. So it is no longer a real differentiator. If you look under the hood of the platforms, you will find technical differences, and it should not be said here that it does not matter which platform you take, but the selection must be made based on the "purpose" and not from a purely technical point of view.
You can compare it a bit with the various car manufacturers. Their products are all driving, all have at least four wheels and you can get from A to B. What you do with them is up to you, and you can choose the best product based on your needs.
What is typical here is that it is about physical goods that are only selected and ordered electronically. Furthermore, it is a 1:1 relationship between a customer and a retailer or manufacturer who sells the products. If the manufacturer sells the goods himself, this is often referred to as "direct sales." This is especially the case if the manufacturer otherwise only sells via dealers. The avoidance of the dealers was often seen as a strategic goal of the manufacturers to collect the margin of the dealers for themselves. In some industries, this has also become an established model. Just think about your hotel or flight bookings: when was the last time you were in a travel agency?
But as soon as a product is worth explaining or it is not entirely straightforward to find the right variant or configuration, expert advice is still necessary and thus often a qualified dealer. eCommerce is therefore merely one of many channels, especially in the B2B environment. However, eCommerce still has a hard time selling goods that require explanation.
If you have ever tried to configure a car on a website, then you know in what depths you can lose yourself. Now imagine what it would be like if you had to assemble your new CNC machine yourself online for the particular production process. You can do it, but you don't have to! As a tech-savvy enthusiast, this experience may be a great weekend activity. But this time is not efficient.
Classical e-commerce will provide more and more solutions and configurators for a wide variety of products in small steps. The next few years will show how far we can go here. This will also show whether, for example, the furniture trade is primarily handled via e-commerce.
The "marketplace" in the digital sense works in the same way, and it is usually also about physical products. In the beginning, Amazon was essentially an eCommerce trade for books. But what Amazon now also has is the "Amazon Marketplace." Here Amazon only acts as an intermediary. Third parties" sell their goods on the Amazon Marketplace. Here Amazon is the marketplace and is the foundation for others to sell their products. What all retailers have in common is that they use the essential functions of Amazon. In any case, the presentation of the goods and the billing. In some cases even the logistics, namely when Amazon delivers on behalf of the retailer from an Amazon warehouse. Otherwise, it is pure price competition, and everyone fights against everyone. The competition on a marketplace is very price driven and is not a successful business for all retailers.
tapio provides such an ecosystem where different manufacturers can not only offer their digital services but also exchange information about machines, tools, and materials. This leads to common digital services that provide added value to the customer.
Let's take our tapio MachineBoard as an example. In a marketplace, you could buy independent solutions from the various machine manufacturers to monitor their machines. Then you would have a central place where you could find multiple products just like in an app store, but you would find it very difficult to leverage synergies. Namely, only if the various manufacturers can exchange information bilaterally. It's like the situation you have on your smartphone today with messaging apps. Or have you ever managed to have WhatsApp messages appear in your iMessage account?
As an ecosystem, tapio and its partners take a different approach. Everyone should and can develop and market their own solutions! As an ecosystem orchestrator, however, tapio makes sure that synergies are not lost. So a customer can see the information about the different manufacturer machines in the MachineBoard, and these are also immediately understandable. All machines show their condition in the same way, e.g., in an idle situation. This provides customers with a clear overview of their machines.
With machine monitoring, this may still be simple, but now try to imagine what it would be like if all the physical objects in a production line could also know each other digitally, exchange information with each other? A very colorful network of synergies could be created, and the various participants could focus on their specialist know-how.
In an ecosystem, the goal is therefore to jointly develop customer benefits.
In this sense, I hope that we were able to create some clarity.The Indian Space Research Organisation's Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle PSLV-C52 put three satellites into orbit on Monday.
PSLV-C52 lifted off from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota at 5.59 am marking ISRO's first mission of 2022.
The rocket put three satellites into orbit — the ISRO's Earth Observation Satellite EOS-04, a student satellite (INSPIREsat-1) from Indian Institute of Space Science & Technology (IIST) and University of Colorado, Boulder, and a technology demonstrator satellite (INS-2TD).
Conceptualised at Bengaluru's U R Rao Satellite Centre, EOS-04 is a Radar Imaging Satellite which can provide high quality images under all weather conditions for use in agriculture, forestry & plantations, soil moisture & hydrology and flood mapping.
PSLV-C52/EOS-04 Mission is ISRO's first of 19 planned missions in 2022 which also includes the much anticipated Chandrayaan-3 mission and the uncrewed-Gaganyaan mission.
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