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Newsletter of the Caldera Environment Centre TREE TweedRiverEnvironmentalEcho NewsletterofTheCalderaEnvironmentCentre Vol.10,Issue1Autumn2011 50corfree *Water Wise * !ey’re Fracking where? * How the Rally came and went * Byrrill Creek Update * A Biosphere Reserve * Stirring the Calderan * How the Tweed will cope with Climate Change *Working with Nature * Climate Denial Tweed Style * Captain Sage >=BMHKB:E In the Tweed Valley it can be disheartening that the battle to protect what we love is so un- relenting. "e work is never done and it seems that unlike other regions we can never sit back and relax, safe in the knowledge that the in- credible beauty and biodiversity of the area will be okay. Some of us may dream of moving of Greens MLC Ian Cohen, recently of another. Some of the largest %oods to a region where what we value is sued for 1 million for something he in Australian history, the largest and cherished by everyone, including said at a community event. most powerful cyclone to hit Queens- those in power. Is there such a place? land in living memory in the same 12 Oh well. We are in the incredible No doubt this kind of thing puts a month period as the worst wild !res Tweed and naturally want to protect lot of people o# taking any action to in Russian history along with their all it. So therefore we !nd ourselves stand up for their environment, but time highest ever recorded tempera- standing up to continuous waves of for some of us it still turns out to be tures, all time snowfall records for greed, thoughtlessness and outright better to do something than noth- Baltimore, Wilmington, Philadelphia, destruction in many forms - Car races ing. Despite the many sacri!ces and Atlantic City and Washington in the through the rainforest, Deathly dams disappointments there are rewards. US, record %ooding in Tennessee, in biodiversity hotspots, Develop- Sometimes we have a win, as in the Pakistan, Record droughts in the ments threatening to turn us into the case of the Unpopular Rally, or with Amazon, and so on. "e latest !gures Gold Coast and pushing out our wild- the Byrrill Creek dam. Besides this from both NASA and the US National life and so on and so on. Now we can we can feel good about how we spend Oceanic and Atmospheric Adminis- also add Fracking - a gas exploration our time. It’s meaningful. It matters tration have 2010 tied with 2005 as and mining process which threatens deeply. We make fabulous connec- the “Warmest Year on Record”. water supplies. tions with other people who care, and Climate deniers will say that local ex- can really feel a part of a community. treme weather events are not uncom- So we do all this campaigning because "e work we do is also o$en appre- mon, but when it’s happening all over we are familiar with the area. Many ciated. Michael McNamara re%ects the world at such great rates?? of us have travelled and some of us upon the many people thanking him have come from other places so we and others who stood up to the Rally Mother nature seems to be trying know how special it is here. Because in his article. Just the other day a guy her very best to wake us all from our of this we feel like we have to do from work told me how he thought it slumber. "e message to me seems something. And we do it unpaid, in was great that I was involved. “If you to be “please work with me rather whatever free time we have. In return guys weren’t around”, he said, “ there than against me” but we still have the many environmental campaign- would be nothing to stop the place prominent mindset of ‘nature is to be ers get attacked and vili!ed. We get looking like one big parking lot”. controlled and used’. "is is the mind- accused of doing it because we have set that puts dams on natural water- big egos when really standing up for And beyond the Tweed Valley the ways and thinks it can develop on what we love is as natural an action work that needs doing is almost crip- %ood plains and ‘conquer’ the bush in as a mother standing up for her child. pling in its immensity. Mother nature a rally car, and burn billions of tons of Sometimes we even get arrested or is literally screaming out for help at fossil fuels with no e#ect. Fortunately even sued. "e recent news of de- the moment on an all too frequent ba- a lot of us are ‘waking up’ but there veloper Bob Els suing our local hero sis. Her current communicating me- are very powerful and greedy forces Katie Milne is beyond belief. Katie has dium of choice is natural disasters and at work trying to ensure we do not. literally dedicated her life to preserv- extreme weather events - One on top ing some of this paradise for future generations and in return she gets !is edition of TREE edited by Judy Oakenfull and Christine sued by one of the richest and most Moore powerful men in the country, and Cover Photograph of Byrrill Creek by Megan Jack faces the prospect of living her life Submissions for the next edition to: in debt. And in case you think this [email protected] couldn’t possibly be successful, think TREE + :GGN:EK>IHKM?KHF <H&HK=BG:MHK +)*)&** 1. Major Developments at Cobaki •Will a Coalition government move to •“Border Ranges Biosphere Project” and Kings Forest rescind development ban? to be considered by Council along with “Border Ranges Rainforest Bio- •Both developments approved by state 3. Local Environment Plans - diversity Plan”, early in the year. government - Caldera Environment Shirewide and Tweed Heads Centre sponsored the EDO (Environ- •Possibility of engaging other public mental Defenders O&ce, Lismore) •Some respite for Rural Land. Devel- and Local Government Agencies at to investigate the possibility of legal opment restrictions using ‘steep lands’ o&cial and grassroots levels for major shortcomings by Leda Developments criteria concerning maximum slope presentation and combined o#ensive concerning Part 3A of the EPBC Act gradients for mapping overlays. to Federal Government level. 1999. •High Rise proposed for Tweed Heads 6. Election of a conservative state •No joy for Kings Forest or Cobaki. along Wharf Street. government Still under investigation. •Medium Rise for South Tweed Heads "is looking very likely in March •Serious storm water/siltation prob- and South Murwillumbah, still uncer- and probably of “landslide” propor- lems impacting on salt marsh com- tain because of %ooding problems and tions. Part 3A may be repealed but munities in Cobaki Lakes. Huge access by emergency services (SES). town planning policies will prob- earth moving and clearing. Manmade ably become even more favourable lakes axed. Environmental mitigation 4. Community Strategy Plan for developers. Urban Sprawl and measures a joke. Blatant non-compli- development of green!eld sites will ance. Massive increases in density. •Consultation by Mr Graham Samson, be favoured over urban consolidation. University of Technology, Sydney, Please help the campaigns of Greens •Wildlife corridors/reserves at Kings good/adequate but Report by Coun- candidates Sue Stock in Lismore and Forest include pathways used by cil 99% actual process and 1% about Andrea Vickers for Tweed. Legislative pedestrians and bicycles. Koalas are outcomes concerning community council (upper house) representation expected to follow these pathways and attitudes. is worth !ghting for. “negotiate” a number of pedestrian crossings over major roadways. Wild- •Environment and Population - two 7. Mining life habitat includes the golf course, major issues concerning public but no (of course). No sustainability design policy redirection or response from "e fracking issue of coal seam gas measures initiated. council. No detailed or speci!c action extraction is beginning to hot up and plans. will be with us for the long haul. A 2. Byrrill Creek Hotspot good !lm on the subject is “Gaslands”. •Fourth objective named “Civic Lead- Funny how things invariably seem •"e Rally has moved to Co#s Har- ership”, should be renamed “Transpar- to go from bad to worse "ere seems bour ent Governance”. to be no political will to tackle global warming which has been relegated to •BUT Byrrill Creek Dam proposal 5. UNESCO’S World Environment the too hard basket. voted for on 3-3 basis. Larger option Day and Biosphere Reserve Projects favoured by three pro-development 8. Web councillor’s; with the Mayor Mr Kevin •Last year’s “Biodiversity” themed Skinner using his second vote, to vote event, probably the best so far. Email and website for the caldera for the dam twice, bringing it to a 3-4 "anks to all volunteers. under further development with most outcome. imput now coming via Kim Hollings- •"is years “Forests” theme World worth. "ank-you Kim. •Minister for Water, Mr Phillip Environment Day event, to be part Costa, maintains prohibition on Byr- funded by Tweed Shire Council, as Paul Hopkins (Hop.e) rill Creek for ‘Water Sharing Plan’ in recent years. We plan to follow a Co-ordinator, for Tweed Shire on environmental strictly environmental theme. Caldera Environment Centre grounds. TREE , Ahpma^KZeer \Zf^Zg]p^gm by Michael McNamara Public O&cer of Northern Rivers Guardians and former President of No Rally Group For anyone who didn’t know, 2009. It drew about 100 people from much fun for a protest as he zipped the Repco Rally has been all over the Tweed Shire. here and there in his wheelchair! chased out of the Tweed Valley From that meeting the No Rally- •numerous addresses to the Tweed and Kyogle areas.
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