Talk:Portland, Victoria

message: There is now a separate article on the Portland aluminium smelter.  Could remove some of the detail on this page. Qwerty310 23:47, 25 August 2007 (UTC)

message: We seem to have a million different figures for it, that differ considerably. Here they are for interests sake:
*Wannon Water
http://www.wannonwater.com.au/media_releases/2006_media/20060118.html
The Henty Park bore was constructed in 1982 for the purpose of extracting 2,400 megalitres of geothermal heated water from the Dilwyn aquifer 1.3 kilometres below the city of Portland. 
*DEPARTMENT OF PRIMARY INDUSTRIES
http://www.dpi.vic.gov.au/DPI/dpincor.nsf/93a98744f6ec41bd4a256c8e00013aa9/89ab801511056909ca25731b00234153/$FILE/DPI4374.pdf
Operating since 1983, Portland draws its water supplies from four bores
drilled 1400 metres below the natural surface.
• The water is brought to the surface at a temperature of 58 degrees celsuis
at a rate of 56 litres per second.
*Sustainability Victoria
http://www.sustainability.vic.gov.au/www/html/2105-operating-geothermal-generators-in-victoria.asp
Portland in Victoria has the only geothermal space heating facility in Australia providing an estimated 3.6MW for space heating to local residents and for heating the municipal pool.
*Murdoch University / Research Institute for Sustainable Energy
http://www.rise.org.au/info/Tech/geo/index.html
Portland in Victoria has sued hot water (58°C) extracted from a bore (1400m deep) at a rate of 90L/s, to heat more than 19,000 square metres of buildings for more than 15 years, and also heat 2000m3 of swimming pool. It is the only spaceheating project in Australia that uses a geothermal resource, as opposed to heap pumps. The total capacity of the Portland facility, operated by the Glenelg Shire is 10.4 MWt (Burns, K.L., Weber, C., Perry, J. and H. J Harrington, 2000).  
All appear to be reliable, so make of it what you will... Wongm 03:58, 28 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Geothermal 

message: Regarding the undo of mentioning the Portland Sustainability Group on the Portland, Victoria page, would you please let me know what part of the addition was either "Not notable, Self Promotion, or an advertisment"? This is the second time mention of the Portland Sustainability Group has been undone by a Wiki admin, and I'm wondering if there's wider issue here.
If the answer is "Not notable", do you mean for people within Portland, people with an interest in Portland, or people with no interest in Portland? Apart from the PSG now having run activities attended by approximately 2,000 of Portland's overall population of 10,000, the group has formal support of local government; our State and Fedaral MPs, the entire school community which we are helping install renewable energy systems onto; the Committe for Portland of which we are involved in rebadging the town as the "Renewable Energy Hub of Australia"; other service club such as Lions, Rotary, etc that we combine volunteers with at events; the local print and radio media which give us frequent and regular coverage; or the actual residents here that have benefitted from our activities?
If the answer is "Self promotion", I would have thought a community based online resource like Wikipedia would not be against a non profit group which clearly exists with no agenda other than to help people reduce their environmental impacts and save energy. Nobody within the group collects a salary and frankly it can be hard to achieve at times.
If the answer is "Advertisement", surely the entry is no more of an advertisement for almost all of the other things mentioned on the page. Golf club? Cable trams? Arts Centre? Portland Aluminium? I have nothing against any of these, but there is an obvious inconsistency in the advertising policy if these can be included while the PSG can't.
I would urge you to either reinstate the content, of explain to me what needs to be changed in order for it to be able to be part of the Wikipedia Portland, Victoria article. 
Thank you. --PeterReefman (talk) 04:52, 7 April 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Portland Sustainability Group 

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