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[email protected] www.tweedecho.com.au LOCAL & INDEPENDENT Rally too divisive says ecologist Luis Feliu up in court’ because the community would challenge the legislation to try The ecologist who conducted the and stop the rally. environmental impact study for last Running the rally on national park year’s controversial world rally said roads proved to be ‘most divisive’ due the event had split the community to the potential impact on world her- like nothing he’d seen before. itage and biodiversity values which he Dunecare Tweed-based Dr Stephen Phillips ‘shared’ because he lived and worked told a special Tweed Shire Council in the Tweed. briefing for councillors, senior staff The decision to accept the con- nursery and media on Tuesday that the rally sulting ecologist job for the rally had been marked by so much ‘misin- job had put him ‘between rock and formation, mistrust, conjecture and hard place’ but ‘ultimately I took a opens speculation’ and he personally found deep draught from the proverbial the backlash of his involvement with poisoned chalice’. the event ‘offensive’ . He gave a detailed outline of the Annie Pollard, Cabarita Dunecare Nursery co-ordinator, to bring friends and family along to the official opening Dr Phillips cast doubt on whether research done by his firm Biolink with her daughter Liv in the thick of it while Dunecare of the new nursery at 2pm this Sunday, May 30, and then he would take up such a task again, Ecological Consultants of fauna and volunteer Ashley Baldry looks on.