GREENS SUPPORT ALTERNATIVE, NATURAL VISION FOR RALPHS BAY
The Tasmanian Greens today reaffirmed their strong support for the community fighting to save the internationally significant bird and marine habitat at Ralphs Bay from the destructive plans of Sydney-based, Walker Corporation. After joining the Save Ralphs Bay group to celebrate the launch of its 2009 fundraising calendar today, Greens Leader and Franklin MP, Nick McKim MP, and Shadow Coastal Policy spokesperson Cassy O’Connor MP took the opportunity to view Walker Corporation’s latest design incarnation for Ralphs Bay. Ms O’Connor said the experience made her feel physically ill. “Walker Corporation’s display at the Lauderdale Football Club was like travelling back to the 1980s, where I grew up in SE Queensland and where ugly canal housing estates blight both the Gold and Sunshine Coasts. Tasmania’s spectacular, unspoiled coastline is far too precious for such a toxic scenario,” Ms O’Connor said.
“The developer’s pastel drawings and 3D display are based on a deceit. They are attempting to gloss over the fact this development would devastate a Conservation Area, eliminate critical bird feeding, roosting and breeding habitat, threaten the critically endangered Spotted Handfish, and turn Ralphs Bay at Lauderdale into a construction zone for the best part of a decade.” “If Walker Corporation was really listening to the community, it would have packed up its unsustainable, unpopular and totally daggy proposal years ago. The developer is simply pretending to listen, but it must be deaf because the community has made its view of this proposal very clear over the past four and a half years.” “Essentially, what Walker Corporation proposes is destruction of a natural environment justified solely by greed. Well, times have changed, the world is changing and people are realising we can’t continue to trash the environment for profit.” “The true vision for beautiful Ralphs Bay is represented in the Save Ralphs Bay 2009 Calendar, with its spectacular images of the Bay’s changing moods, light and vistas, and its resident and migratory shorebirds. This is the wild, coastal Tasmania we must protect,” Ms O’Connor said.. Sun Nov 2008 03:11 (1 month, 3 weeks ago)
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“The developer’s pastel drawings and 3D display are based on a deceit. They are attempting to gloss over the fact this development would devastate a Conservation Area, eliminate critical bird feeding, roosting and breeding habitat, threaten the critically endangered Spotted Handfish, and turn Ralphs Bay at Lauderdale into a construction zone for the best part of a decade.” “If Walker Corporation was really listening to the community, it would have packed up its unsustainable, unpopular and totally daggy proposal years ago. The developer is simply pretending to listen, but it must be deaf because the community has made its view of this proposal very clear over the past four and a half years.” “Essentially, what Walker Corporation proposes is destruction of a natural environment justified solely by greed. Well, times have changed, the world is changing and people are realising we can’t continue to trash the environment for profit.” “The true vision for beautiful Ralphs Bay is represented in the Save Ralphs Bay 2009 Calendar, with its spectacular images of the Bay’s changing moods, light and vistas, and its resident and migratory shorebirds. This is the wild, coastal Tasmania we must protect,” Ms O’Connor said.. Sun Nov 2008 03:11 (1 month, 3 weeks ago)
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