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Woodburn: ute hits, kills pedestrian

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Alternate facts?

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The bridges of Ballina Council

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Local community-owned renewable energy group COREM says it’s feeling buoyed and sunny, ‘about the amazing potential of solar gardens for the Northern Rivers’.

President Ella Rose Goninan told The Echo, ‘COREM has just returned from the final day of the national Social Access Solar Garden research and design project funded by ARENA (Australian Renewable Energy Agency), held at UTS Sydney on Friday November 9, where they presented findings from their solar-garden modelling and heard the latest developments from other organisations.’ 

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