For further information, see candobetter.org/SaveEmigrantCreek
Motorway magic tricks, 2 Nov 2006
Crikey! The RTA people must be magicians. They say they can improve the quality of Ballina’s drinking water by constructing a motorway through the Emigrant Creek water catchment (environment protected). This is what they will do on only two of the 63 properties impacted. (A selection of magic tricks).
- Destroy over 1000 mostly mature rainforest trees that form part of the natural water catchment infrastructure.
- Disturb a “capped” dip site containing arsenic and DDT.
- Destroy a specially constructed island for wildlife as well as a bird garden.
- Traverse a five-acre lake teeming with life that feeds into the storagedam and will carry 20,000 plus pollution generating vehicles per day.
- 400 white egrets that will have to find new sleeping quarters and all the other birds, over 100 species. “I’ll miss you, thanks for coming.”
- Platypus and other numerous water critters... “Watch out for toxic road dust and diesel emissions.”
- Cr Alan Rich who voted for the water catchment route and who represents impacted ratepayers... “We will remember”! • Members of the CEPS lobby group... How do you spell DeCEPSion?
- Greens MLC Ian Cohen and mayor Silver who helped CEPS hoodwink 18,000 people into demanding the government route the motorway through the water catchment so they could protect their “spoils”... Enjoy!
- Ballina Shire Council who persuaded the RTA to give priority to future ratepayers in a new village, at the expense of current ratepayers who live in the water catchment... Blatant discrimination.
- The 18,000 mostly Ballina residents who were hoodwinked into acting against their own best interests... You acted in good faith and were used, no hard feelings!
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