Some ideas you could consider to reduce your impact on the environment.
COAL SEAM GAS PROTEST IN THE PADDOCK
BEAUDESERT SUNDAY 16 October
NATIONAL PROTEST DAY - PROTECT OUR WATER
WHERE - 180 - 208 Brisbane St 9 vacant land opposite Beaudesert High School Car parking at Westerman Park and walk to gate from there.
TIME - meet at 10.30 am for 11 am (helicopter flyover time to be confirmed)
LOCK THE GATE SIGNS - can be purchased from video store in Beaudesert near Coles or at the Solar Shop
BANNER - MAKE YOUR OWN - JOIN WITH FRIENDS - MARK OUT LAND WITH LIME
There will be a helicopter flyover to capture the protest for national press.
RSVP - please reply by email to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. if you are hoping to attend this protest site
Click on image to find out who our heroes are hanging the banner from Mt French.
There have been no surveys to determine density and / or health of koalas in Scenic Rim area.
KOALAS NOT COAL!!
COAL AND COAL SEAM GAS INDUSTRY ARE PUBLIC ENEMIES NUMBER ONE WITH REGARD TO HUMAN AND ANIMAL HEALTH AND WELLBEING.
Carabella Resources Limited’s (www.carabellaresources.com.au/Projects/BarneyViewAndMaroon ) plans to commence coal exploration in the scenic Mt Barney valley at Barney View in 2011 have been exposed this week. Local residents and council were caught completely unaware of the impending plans of this profit-driven shareholder company, who’s ultimate aim is to exploit the finite natural resources of The Scenic Rim.
The planned coal exploration and coal mine is adjacent to World Heritage-listed Mt Barney National Park, and is a designated “National Landscape” and is called “Australia’s Green Cauldron” (this is a Parks Australia and Tourism Australia project ) http://www.australia.com/campaigns/nationallandscapes/AustraliasGreenCauldron.htm
Innes Larkin, owner/operator of Mt Barney Lodge said “Carabella Resources Ltd is planning to explore and potentially mine coal in a region of national significance, it has been listed as the third most biodiverse region in Australia. We intend on sending a clear message to the State Government to protect our shared environmental assets and halt coal exploration immediately”.
Logan Mayor supports longer extension for consultation
Logan Mayor Pam Parker has sent a letter to support our request for a longer extension for consultation for PARK RIDGE CONNECTOR CORRIDOR until end December.
Will this request be met by Minister Craig Wallace?
Community dissatisfaction with the process has lead to the formation of the NO PRC group with a website here with opportunity for discussion on the forum and also a FACEBOOK page
http://www.facebook.com/pages/No-PRC-Park-Ridge-Connector-Motorway/200209970053673
Logan residents are not happy to see a rushed consultation process for a major freight motorway / tollway which would - if ever built as being proposed by a very flexible "corridor of interest" dissect an undervalued landscape into a jigsaw of land patches criss-crossed by roads.
THIS IS NOT LACA'S VISION FOR A STATE REGIONAL BIODIVERSITY CORRIDOR.
THIS STATE REGIONAL BIODIVERSITY CORRIDOR IS WHAT REQUIRES PROTECTION AND PRESERVATION - NOT A ROAD CORRIDOR
ADJACENT TO JERRY'S DOWNFALL AND FLESSER RD RESERVE ARE LARGE PARCELS OF RURAL RESIDENTIAL PROPERTIES WHERE WILDLIFE ROAM FREELY - where local residents drive carefully to respect the resident wildfife.
To contemplate a section of a major motorway and network of roads connecting to it without knowing - or telling us - where the freight road will start does not demonstrate good planning. There is another community to the north in Drewvale who are oblivious to this consultation process - or have not yet been consulted by the TMR team.
It is important that as many people as possible provide feedback.
Submissions can be sent via email to the project team at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Make sure you include your name and address and a digital signature would doublely ensure it is valid.
This TMR page has all details. You can also fill in an online survey.
Please be aware that the feedback form and survey [same questions as form] does NOT have to be completed except for YOUR COMMENTS.
IF YOU ARE WANTING TO SEE BETTER CONSULTATION AND BETTER ENVIRONMENTAL OUTCOMES JOIN US VIA WWW.NOPRC.ORG or FACEBOOK page above.
LACA BELIEVES THAT INSUFFICIENCT BACKGROUND STUDIES HAVE BEEN DONE TO VALIDATE ANY CORRIDOR AND ALSO THAT COMMUNITY HAVE NOT BEEN PROVIDED WITH SUFFICIENT INFORMATION TO MAKE AN INFORMED DECISION. To suggest the validity of a corridor just because it has no direct impact on your particular property is environmentally unethical.
The environmental groups which met in addition to Community Reference Stakeholder Group to input into this process do not believe there is a viable corridor. Marking a line on a map now to build a road when funds are available just before a state election and local council elections is not indicative of good governance. This community of affected and concerned citizens expects better governance and a demonstration of openness, integrity and transparency.
October 16th National Day - Protesters on Peaks
Coal Seam Gas and coal mining threaten the Scenic Rim
Mega Quarries and other industrialised infrastructure are also signigicant threats to the quiet peaceful rural amenity that makes the Scenic Rim Region an eco tourism destination.
CLICK ON IMAGE TO LEFT TO SEE ABSEILORS INSTALLING THE BANNER FROM THE TOP OF MT FRENCH - as seen on Channel 7 news.
Visit website http://www.keepthescenicrimscenic.com/ to join movement, support in any way - stay in touch with the action!
Extension is available for Park Ridge Connector Corridor feedback.
Today 18 November 2011 is still listed as closure for Park Ridge Connector Corridor feedback. However if you phone 1800 799 844 you will be granted an extension. This has come about because of community pressure. Ask for it in writing! Ask name of person granting this.
LACA has stated from the very beginning that there is no viable corridor however the wider community also MUST HAVE an opportunity to input into this process.
We believe that Main Roads are are now hearing that the community would feel disenfranchised if not given more time to make their reasoned submissions.
Please be aware that the feed back form attempts to channel your answers. Also note that the closely knit community of CHAMBERS FLAT is not even included in the feedback form.
LOOK OUT FOR A MEDIA RELEASE FROM MAINS ROADS Department of Transport and Mains Roads - although the transport components of public transport and active transport ( cycling and personal motorised disabilty scooters) are not included in any discussion
This powerful owl - captured on camera in Karawatha Forest this week - has bitten the head off the possum. The owl is a top predator in the proposed 'corridor of interest' and ranges over a large area. To survive he needs large intact bushland where his prey live and breed. Thus the survival of the owl depends on the possum which needs old growth trees with hollows. We need to protect corridors for wildlife rather than corridors for roads.
An African peasant farmer has managed what so many others failed to do: transform the lives of thousands of people by making the desert bloom again. Discover the untold story of Yacouba Sawadogo, an illiterate African farmer who battled for two decades with nature and man to become a pioneer in the fight against desertification. Perfectly pitched cinematography engages beautifully with a story that will leave you moved and inspired.
Yacouba resurrected an ancient planting technique known as "zai," using traditional planting pits. He hacked into the hard-baked earth and filled the pits with compost. In the region, tens of thousands of hectares of land that was completely unproductive have been made fertile again. Yacouba has reversed the process of desertification in the deforested and drought-ridden Sahel, a belt up to 1,000km wide, spanning Africa from the Atlantic Ocean to the Red Sea.
This story is a reminder that determined individuals can at least slow down the steamroller of environmental destruction across the planet.
Using, and then enhancing, traditional "zai" techniques for restoring degraded land, which involve planting seeds directly into pits that have been enhanced with small handfuls of composted dung, Yacouba Sawadogo has spent over a quarter century experimenting with his soils, and then teaching his fellow farmers, resulting in the successful rehabilitation of farmland, the regrowth of forests, and attention from international media and non-profit organizations who wanted to learn more about Sawadogo's techniques.
Read about award winning films at the Jackson Hole Film Festival here.
ULDA is coming to Greenbank 9 March 2011
Why don't we all wear GREEN shirts for the meeting on 9th March to show the ULDA that we are a UNITED community standing as ONE?
This is a real indication of PEOPLE POWER and the hard yards being covered by the community and team leading.
Previously ULDA were unwilling to meet with the community - we have persuaded them to come and listen to us.
WE MUST ENSURE THEY TAKE COPIOUS NOTES - IF NOT THEY ARE NOT LISTENING!
Join FACEBOOK support the campaign and meet other locals
Contacting our political representatives in all levels of government - local state and federal - is important.
Their contact details are here at http://www.savegreenbank.com.au/page1.php
MASCOT Tevvy is still advertising acreage living and space?
See you at the meetings. Well done team!
Moratorium on fossil fuel mining call from LOCK THE GATE
An undemocratic process has disenfranchised the Australian people with regards to the development of the coal and unconventional gas mining industries in Australia.
An undemocratic process has disenfranchised the people of Queensland with regards to the development of lands subject only to ULDA APPROVAL.
The LOCK THE GATE Alliance is a national alliance of community, industry and environmental groups and individuals.
The long-term cost of our water, food security and our communities is at risk.
Fossil fuel extraction has a detrimental effect on the health of people and the environment.
Our most productive food production land is at risk. The precautionary principle is not beng applied. What happens to the world's biodiversity?
Read the factsheets to gain a better understanding of processes involved.
What is the real cost of short term economic growth - for overseas investors?
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Coal Exploration and Mining at Barney View
Beaudesert Times journalist Gary Corbett broke the news on Wednesday last week, that Coal Mining is headed to the Mt Barney region. Carabella Resources Limited is cashed up and they already have State Government Mining Licences to allow Coal exploration within the next few months at Barney View, Maroon, and the western Boonah-Rathdowney Road corridor. If this proves to be worthwhile, mining is the next step.
Information about Mt Barney and Maroon is provided here.
This is of great concern to the environment, farming, tourism, local businesses, reisdents who value the rural charm and values of their chosen lifestyle, and those who live near road corridors. A preliminerary community meeting will be held at Mt Barney Lodge (15 minutes from Rathdowney) which is at the southern end of the investigation area. It will be held at 2pm on Friday 18th February.
The purpose of the meeting is:
All are welcome to attend, and RSVP's or further enquiries should contact info@mtbarneylodge .com.au or 5544 3233.
World Heritage listed Mount Barney National Park values are threatened by incompatible continued mining of fossil fuel. Many local businesses supported Queensland's Carbon Diet to reduce our greenhouse gas output. Granting of such licences is beyond belief with our current knowledge and understanding of the global state ot the environment.
23 October 2010 - great day for conservation
Save Bahrs Scrub Alliance launch of booklet Endangered, Vulnerable and Near Threatened Flora of Bahrs Scrub
Saturday, October 23, 2010 Beenleigh Bowls Club Hanover St Beenleigh
11:00am – 12:00pm
Download your invitation here. INVITATION_SBSA_FLORA_BOOKLET_LAUNCH.pdf
More information is available at http://www.bahrsscrub.org.au/
Veto fundraiser supper dance 7-11 pm
49-65 Kenny Rd Chambers Flat / Logan Village Community Hall
Tickets phone Lil 38035541 or Mary 38033320 or at the door ($10 single family $30)
See what is happening at www.veto.org.au
COMMUNITY PLANS FOR LOCAL GOVERNMENTS - state government directive
Queensland Government requires all local councils to consult wih community and produce a document called a community plan. Timeframe for completion is December 2011 - unless council has been granted an extension - as is the case with LOGAN CITY COUNCIL which has until 2013.
SCENIC RIM REGIONAL COUNCIL is currently collecting your vision for the future. This is where you are invited to have your say.
Energex Logan River to Jimboomba Protest Rally at Parliament - Thursday 7 October 2010
Please consider supporting the action described here and organized by Paul Casbolt on behalf of VETO (Veto Energex Towers Organisation) that is protesting against the upgrade and new easement for a 110 Kv line to cross the Logan River 5 times and run south along Camp Cable Rd.
This proposed route will clear 42.5 hectares of koala habitat which also provides valuable habitat for other threatened species in the area eg quolls, green thighed frog, wallum froglet , glossy black cockatoos and 4 species of gliders (greater, squirrel, sugar, feathertail) that we know about from community surveys.
LACA has been assisting VETO for the past 2 years and has provided formal submissions to all rounds of community consultation (please see the LACA or VETO websites for copies of LACA and VETO submissions outlining major concerns). President Anne Page has attended fortnightly meetings over this time along with many other concerned members from the Logan River and Camp Cable Rd communities.
There are many reasons why the community should be objecting to such projects (see LACA submission ) in our local area and across Queensland. If you are able to attend this peaceful rally please RSVP to Paul ph 3200 5210 (see flyer contacts). There will be a coach bus to pick people up from Logan Village Community Centre at 10 am and will return there around 1.30 pm (cost $8 per person please to cover bus hire) .
The Hon. Margaret Keech has already agreed to meet the group and take receipt of the petition outside Parliament House.
This joint Rally with other Community Groups (also dissatisfied with the Energex process) may be our best chance to influence State Politicians as it is likely that Minister Stephen Robertson will make a decision on the Loganlea to Jimboomba 110kV Sub Transmission Line Community Infrastructure Designation in December.We hope to get wider media interest and support by joining with the Sunshine Coast group and the STOP group from the Gold Coast.
This will be a civil, peaceful protest and children are welcome as this is for their future (unfortunately Parliament does not sit during school holidays).
SAVE OUR KOALAS!
NO TOXIC DUMP IN IPSWICH!
Public Meeting 3 July 2pm - 4pm Rising Sun Hotel, 27 School Rd, Rosewood
Dr Patricia Petersen has organised a public meeting for local residents concerned about a large-scale, hard-to-place, high impact industries site proposed for Ebenezer, a rural area south-west of Ipswich. High impact industries involve noxious, offensive or hazardous operations. This can include chemical storage, irradiation plants and the processing of banned organochlorine pesticides such as DDT, dieldrin and PCBs. It is totally unacceptable that an industrial development such as this should be considered for this area. Farmers and other residents in Ebenezer rely on clean rain water for drinking and household use, soil and crop production. Beef and agricultural industries out this way are currently very strong, they are thriving.
If this development goes ahead, it will be catastrophic. It will negatively impact on livelihoods. Because the area doesn't have impervious clay, local aquifers will end up being contaminated These feed into the Mr Walker Creek, which flows into the Bremer and Brisbane Rivers. Ipswich doesn't need an environmental disaster such as this, neither does South-East Queensland. The Bremer River is still recovering from a chemical 'dump' from Amberley RAAF Base a year ago, which polluted the waterways.
There is grave concern about the impact that this proposed industrial estate will have on koalas. This area has the highest density of koalas in South-East Queensland. The koalas are healthy, have a long lifespan and are Chlamydia free. If they are disturbed, this koala habitat will be lost forever. This is supported by the Ipswich Koala Protection Society.
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Seven year old Angela Koranski is in Mrs Olsen's year 2 class at Canterbury College. Angela recently entered the Logan City Council's World Environment Day Poster competition. Angela was selected as one of thirteen winners. Her winning entry will be displayed at the Logan Art Gallery and her poster will be reproduced as part of a Logan City Council calendar.
Angie's entry was titled "River of Life" and related to conservation of the"I live on the Logan River. So do lots of birds, reptiles, mammals and plants. Cutting down trees means the animals won't have a home. Nature is special. We need to look after it!"
NOT IN ANYONE'S BACKYARD and ESPECIALLY NOT having one of our rivers as the boundary.
LACA has for a long time viewed the Bromelton site as one of regional significance with an additional threat to Moreton Bay although no one else seems to be noticing. The area around the landfill and strong smelling industries is one of concern - with more details being available from our campaign website www.lovetheloganvalley.org.au managed by Brooke Hynch.
The Love the Logan Valley Campaign has been formed out of a group of individuals who love the clean living values that the Logan Valley represents, with its clean air, its clean water, clean food and clean living. If the Valley is to have a large industrial city in it then these industries should reflect our clean environment and not be dedicated to toxic, noxoius and hard to place industries.
Our members include people from all walks of life - farrmers, eco-tourism operators, environmental scientists, mums and dads who live in the area and want to make sure the health and well-being of their children, and their children's children are secured for this valley.
The Ebenezer site is a new proposal that has comes out of the blue - this one drains into Warril Creek, then the Bremer and then the Brisbane River. A major incident at either would contaminate either waterway. It and another area Wellcamp near Toowoomba are discussed on the Department of Infrastructure and Plannin website. See the links documents and maps from this page.
According to that page the government is identifying new industrial land for large footprint, difficult-to-locate and high impact industries in a sustainable way by:not locating industrial zones in environmentally sensitive areas considering infrastructure requirements separating incompatible land uses considering the commercial needs of these types of industries.
They recognise not all large footprint, difficult to locate and high impact industries have the same requirements. For example, some require good access to road, rail and port infrastructure, some need large amounts of water and electricity, some require good separation from sensitive land uses and others need to be located close to resources and/or their markets. These considerations also form part of the study.
The community has been fed limited information on Bromelton for over five years with secret reports funded by developers
Our first South East Queensland Koala Alliance video is ‘in the can’ and can be viewed at this link here.
http://www.youtube.com/user/sbaltais#p/a/u/0/WT_DDDEvjHE
A group of concerned citizens from Logan have been engaged and actively campaigning to protect the Logan River from the first unsustainable proposal by ENERGEX to supply power for goverment's stated future population growth. The group VETO have a website www.veto.org.au which is currently being updated. There have been many sightings of koalas along the proposed power corridors. It would seem the big squeeze is being exerted on all species of the natural environment - animals and plants,microbes and man - to move over for the built environment with its manufactured concrete and steel structures.
Andy Grodecki invites us all to join with him to participate in an international event hosted at www.350.org. This s a new global campaign focused on making sure the world takes the kind of big, bold, fast action that we need to solve this crisis.
Our action will be at Jubilee Park, Beaudesert -
12 noon this Sunday 25 October during the 'Our habitat, our home' event
Hope you can make it.
Here's the situation:
- The science of climate change is getting darker by the day. The Arctic is melting away with astonishing speed, decades ahead of schedule. Everything on the planet seems to be melting or burning, rising or parched. No surprise there--scientists tell us that the safe level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is 350 parts per million, and we're at 389 and rising.
- But there's good news: we're not cooked yet, and THIS YEAR we have an opportunity to make a real impact. In December, the nations of the world will be meeting to craft a global treaty designed to help the world act together to solve global warming. The terms of this treaty may well determine whether we actually save the planet from climate change, so it's up to all of us to make sure we get it right.
Everyday we hear and read about the environment and how our human behavioursare impacting on our home. The environment is everyone's home and is shared - though not evenly - with all humans and all other life forms or species.
This week 11- 17 October 2009 is the first ENVIROWEEK. It has been set up to highlight and reward or acknowledge those people, groups, schools and community groups who are each making contributions towards protecting our environment.
Coolaustralia.org is the group responsible for beginning this promotion and various cities and individuals have connected with the process.
Our local Where I live section of the online newspaper Logan West Leader provides some coverage here.
whereilive.com.au readers from any area to read write and comment on local news as well as check on local events
THERE IS PROVISION FOR READERS TO COMMENT ONLINE IF THEY WISH. WHAT DO YOU THINK?
The story is below for your convenience. MPs were asked these questions
Do you support a Logan City Council proposal to build a new substation in the area, negating the need for the Loganlea to Jimboomba powerline?
Do you think there is any point to the community consultation process when the decision on the powerline’s route appears to have been made?
MP’s position on Energex powerline (along and across the Logan River)
JOHN MICKEL, MEMBER FOR LOGAN
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