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7NEWS
14-07-2025
- Health
- 7NEWS
Family speaks out after beloved grandfather dies following medical episode as union slams ambulance response time
A well-respected South Australian man and beloved grandfather has died after a medical episode behind the wheel. Robert Tancock had only minutes to receive vital help that may have seen him survive his medical episode. Unfortunately, paramedics couldn't get there in time. WATCH ABOVE: Ambulance Union calls for action on Adelaide's ambulance ramping. Know the news with the 7NEWS app: Download today Emergency services were called to Main South Rd at Sellicks Hill about 10.15am on Saturday but Tancock couldn't be revived. Friends told 7NEWS that he was 'selfless and always gave back to the community.' The ambulance union claims he would have had a better chance of survival if crews responded to jobs faster. 'Time is valuable and every minute counts,' they told 7NEWS. 'They performed CPR but unfortunately, with a very lagged downtime without oxygen to the brain, the outcome was unfortunate.' There is an ambulance station on Port Rd at Aldinga, minutes from where the crash happened. Tancock was triaged as category 1, which is meant to have a response time of eight minutes. 7NEWS understands it took about 15 minutes for paramedics to arrive at the scene and to begin crucial CPR. The survival rate for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest in Australia is about 10 per cent of patients surviving to hospital discharge or 30 days after the event. SA Health Minister Chris Picton, however, said that the eight-minute response time doesn't apply in the regions and the Aldinga ambulance was detained at another job. 'Our crews did everything possible to get to that case as soon as possible,' he told 7NEWS. 'The only potential ambulance station that could have been closer, that ambulance was out in the community helping someone else at the time.' 7NEWS spoke with Tancock's widow, who said she was happy with the care her husband received. The union blames ramping at Flinders Medical Centre and said paramedics can't respond to emergencies if they're stuck at hospitals. 'When they're stuck on a ramp, then obviously, we can't free them up to respond to the community,' they said. The government has defended its health system, while South Australia battles more than 2000 flu cases, the highest weekly number since 2019 with 164 hospitalisations. The Australian Medical Association SA said on July 4 that the ramping was at record levels. 'This pressure is reflected in our emergency departments. The latest ambulance ramping figures show 5382 total hours lost in June – making it the second-worst month ever recorded,' associate professor Peter Subramaniam said. Shadow Minister for Health Ashton Hurn said South Australians are sick of waiting and sick of this government's failure to deliver on its clear promise to fix ramping. 'This is more than just data released each month, it represents sick South Australians stuck outside of our hospitals, desperate to get in,' Hurn said. 'It also impacts our paramedics who have to endure being ramped for hours and hours.'
Irish Independent
04-07-2025
- Business
- Irish Independent
Carol Tancock named interim chair of The Housing Agency
Ms Tancock, who was an independent, non-executive director of the agency prior to the appointment, joined its board in 2023. Her appointment as interim chair of the state agency has been confirmed by James Browne, the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage. Mr Carey was also the chairman of Enterprise Ireland, but resigned from that role too at the same time last month. The agency named board member Jim Woulfe as its interim chair. Mr Carey resigned from the boards of the two state agencies after his East Coast Bakehouse company remained in breach of company law by failing to file its annual return, including its accounts on time. The company has been in breach of the law for more than 18 months, putting Mr Carey at risk of prosecution. He pledged last month to file the accounts early in July. Drogheda-based East Coast Bakehouse sells cookies under its own brand as well as manufacturing private label product for clients including supermarkets. It has a number of high-profile financial backers. Mr Carey said it recently completed a €5m 'growth equity' fundraising. The business, founded in 2015, has racked up substantial losses. Thousands of companies are typically in breach of the law at any one time in Ireland. While the potential statutory fines and penalties for failing to file returns on time are sizeable, the reality is that few directors are ever prosecuted in Ireland for non-compliance with their relevant legal obligations under the Companies Act. The Companies Registration Office (CRO) isn't even able to currently undertake the automated strike off of non-compliant companies because of an IT issue that has persisted for more than a year. The Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment revealed in May this year that the total cost of the troubled IT platform at the CRO, called Regsys, was €2.9m between 2017 and 2020 when it was implemented. The system was developed by a firm called ERS Limited, according to the Department. The CRO also spent almost €1.2m last year and more than €313,000 on the system so far this year on support and maintenance. The Department said it could not isolate the specific costs associated with fixing the IT issue that has affected it.
West Australian
13-05-2025
- Business
- West Australian
ICE says new tech makes massive south-eastern coast green hydrogen project economically viable
The boss of one of the companies involved in an enormous green hydrogen project on WA's south-eastern coast says it has created new technology that will make the planned development 'economically viable'. InterContinental Energy is part of a consortium looking to develop the US$70 billion ($110b) Western Green Energy Hub north-west of Eucla. The plan is for the construction and operation of 3000 wind turbines, 35 solar farms, and a renewable hydrogen facility across 22,690sqkm that would employ up to 8000 people. Offshore elements comprise a marine offloading facility, desalination plant, brine pipeline, and an ammonia export pipeline. The project has the potential to generate more than 50 gigawatts to produce about 3.5 million tonnes per annum of zero-carbon green hydrogen — making it one of the biggest power projects in the world. WEGH will be built in several phases, with the first stage covering 1900sqkm aiming to generate about 6GW to produce 330,000tpa. The relevant environmental authorities at both the State and Federal levels are currently assessing the proposal, with opposition already formed around the project's potential impacts on the extensive world-class limestone karst cave systems in the area. There also continues to be doubts expressed about the economics of green hydrogen. However, ICE on Tuesday said it had developed the P2(H2)Node, a patented modular system that would transform how green hydrogen was produced. It said the system directly integrated electrolysis plants with wind and solar farms, eliminating the need for long-distance electricity transmission, cutting costs and boosting efficiency. ICE said by standardising design and using modular construction, the system would deliver up to 10 per cent lower capital expenditure and up to 10 per cent higher operational efficiency than conventional approaches. It said the system had taken ICE's Perth-based team four years to develop, with patents granted in Australia and the US, and patents pending in several other countries. ICE chief executive Alexander Tancock said the Node system would reduce complexity, accelerate project deployment and make giga-scale green hydrogen production both economically viable and globally scalable. 'The P2(H2)Node system is designed with global application in mind, particularly for coastal and remote regions rich in renewable resources but lacking robust grid infrastructure,' he said. 'Its decentralised, modular and flexible architecture allows for efficient deployment in a variety of settings, making giga-scale green hydrogen production feasible in locations where traditional models face significant barriers.' Mr Tancock said conventional centralised models required expensive electricity transmission, leading to energy losses and inefficiency. 'The patented P2(H2)Node system flips this model by co-locating giga-scale hydrogen production with wind and solar farms, ensuring power is used where it's generated,' he said. ICE's Australian boss Isaac Hinton said the Node system could unlock the full potential of its portfolio of giga-scale projects, as well as others globally. In particular, ICE's largest project WEGH, being developed in partnership with CWP and Mirning Green Energy, stood to benefit significantly. The node would enable the lowest cost, large-scale production of a range of hydrogen derivatives, including ammonia and e-fuels. 'With the support of recently announced Federal Government hydrogen incentives, WGEH is projected to drive down production costs for green ammonia below US$650 per tonne, unlocking transformative investment opportunities and significant job creation in Western Australia and the country more broadly,' Mr Hinton said. 'By making green hydrogen, ammonia and e-fuels cost-competitive, the P2(H2)Node will support decarbonisation across hard-to-abate sectors like steel, shipping, aviation and fertilisers.' ICE will unveil the details and design of the Node system at the World Hydrogen Summit in Rotterdam, the Netherlands next week. A final investment decision on WEGH is not expected until 2029.
