Four bugs threaten our comfort zone Nov 4, 2009
If a pipeline to siphon sea water from Spencer gulf to Lake Eyre was constructed. BJ, Batemans Bay. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Opinion)
Eleven Kitchen and Cellar Jul 29, 2009
The bugs might be Moreton Bay but they re sourced from South Australia s Spencer Gulf, which explains why the meat seems sweeter and the flesh firmer. We receive half a bug each, smeared with caper and anchovy salty, herby montpellier butter, on a bed of watercress. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Bagged and sealed alive May 26, 2009
His father came to Port Lincoln 40 years ago and trawled for prawns in the Spencer Gulf before getting into tuna farming. The family is a big name in Australian fishing; Andrew's uncle Joe is one of the four fathers of the modern tuna industry in Port Lincoln, a foursome who famously still meet for cappuccino and industry chat once a week. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Olympic Dam environment impact presented May 1, 2009
The company says discharge from the plant will not impact on the cuttlefish industry in SA's Spencer Gulf. The expansion also required either a gas pipeline from Moomba to power an electricity station at Olympic Dam, or a 270km electricity transmission line from Port Augusta to the mine, the EIS stated. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Australia)
BHP Billiton May Decide on Expansion of Olympic Dam Uranium Mine Next Year May 1, 2009
The operation will use 253 megaliters of water a day and 200 megaliters of that will be pumped 320 kilometers (199 miles)in a pipeline from a desalination plant in the Upper Spencer Gulf, the company said in the statement. A 270 kilometer electricity transmission line will be built along with a gas- fired power station, it said. (Bloomberg -- Australia & New Zealand)
Scaling heights Mar 14, 2009
Just as good is the farmed variety from Boston Bay and Arno Bay in South Australia's Spencer Gulf. It has a mild, delicate flavour, though in certain areas it develops a pleasant salty, almost iodine, taste. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Freeview TV - coming to a lounge room near you Feb 10, 2009
Port Pirie won t be broadcasting the new Freeview channels because we can t broadcast the high definition signal, Spencer Gulf Telecasters General Manager Brian Bearman said. The digital channels people receive now will be the same after Freeview is introduced. (Yorke Peninsula Country Times)
Science: Dolphins are talented chefs Feb 7, 2009
A wild female Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphin was observed going through the same series of complicated steps to prepare cuttlefish prey for eating in the Spencer Gulf, in South Australia state. "It's a sign of how well their brains are developed. It's a pretty clever way to get pure calamari without all the horrible bits," Mark Norman, the curator of mollusks at Museum Victoria and a research team member, told the Canberra Times newspaper. (MSNBC -- Environment)
